TT Assistant Professor (Sociocultural Anthropology – Indigenous Health)

Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Review of applications to begin October 23, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled

2/2 load (we are R1 with the accompanying research and graduate student advising duties)

The Department of Anthropology, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (Honolulu, Hawai'i) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in sociocultural anthropology at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek a sociocultural anthropologist with a specialty in Indigenous health to contribute to our programs in Medical Anthropology and Applied Cultural Anthropology of Hawai'i, the Pacific, and Asia. This is a 9-month, full-time, permanent, tenure-track position, subject to position clearance and availability of funds.

We seek an applicant to support our undergraduate and graduate (MA and PhD) programs by teaching and mentoring on topics of Indigenous anthropology, medical anthropology, methodology, applied anthropology, and/or relations of land, food, water, and human well-being. While applicants working in all geographic regions are welcome, we are particularly interested in candidates whose work is focused in Hawai'i, the Pacific, or Asia.

Topics of interest within Indigenous health include but are not limited to: the relationship between environment and health, toxicity, sustainability, care, health sovereignty, disability, communicable and non-communicable diseases, healthcare, health screening and surveillance, and multi-species health interactions.