https://careers.csus.edu/en-us/job/532913/tenure-track-faculty-anthropology-latin-american-archaeologist

POSITION DETAILS:

This is a full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank beginning with the Fall 2024 semester.

JOB DUTIES:

• Demonstrate a genuine interest in high quality teaching and mentoring of a diverse body of students;
• Teach an upper-division, General Education, large enrollment course related to Latin American archaeology;
• Develop and teach upper division major courses in support of the major and the ABA Concentration, including a regional prehistory and an anthropological theory course in their specialty;
• Work collaboratively with faculty to support and contribute to the department as a part of the ABA concentration, which is strongly grounded in evolutionary theory, and committed to empirically rigorous, scientific research and student training;
• Develop a focused and productive program of original research that demonstrates inclusivity in the involvement of students and respect for diversity in the content and/or focus of the research topics.  Engage in dissemination of research;
• Provide advising to a diverse body of undergraduate and graduate majors from a variety of backgrounds;
• Provide service to the department, college, University, and community.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Demonstrated experience or potential teaching undergraduate students
• Demonstrated experience or potential mentoring graduate students
• Demonstrated experience or potential supervising students in field and lab research
• Experience and/or interest in the social, political, economic, and/or ecological dimensions of hunter-gatherer or non-state agricultural societies
• Analytical specialization that complements and integrates effectively with existing faculty’s expertise and perspectives, including but not limited to ethnoarchaeology, bioarcheology, paleoethnobotany, palynology, geoarchaeology, geographic information systems (GIS), or materials analysis
• Experience and/or interest in teaching graduate-level seminars

Questions about the job duties and/or qualifications may be directed to the chair of the search committee, Nathan Stevens nathan.stevens@csus.edu

Prior to applying, candidates are encouraged to communicate with appropriate members of the faculty at Harvard with similar research interests and who are willing to serve as mentors. Applications include a research proposal no longer than 1000 words describing the research they would like to pursue while an ASPR Junior Fellow, and a CV that outlines previous scholarship and other qualifications. Candidates should also solicit two letters of recommendation that include an assessment of the candidate’s work and promise. The candidate is also requested to provide transcripts of both undergraduate and graduate records, and samples of independent work such as published papers.

Questions can be sent to Clara Alexander (calexander@harvard.fas.edu), Dan Lieberman (danlieb@fas.harvard.edu), or Rowan Flad (rflad@fas.harvard.edu).

Applications (including all required materials: research proposal, CV, two letters of recommendation, transcripts, and work samples) are due on January 25, 2024, and should be submitted via the following link: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13172

For more information, visit: sites.harvard.edu/aspr