Assistant Professor – Black Feminist Anthropology

The review of applications will begin on October 20, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled

The Departments of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) and Anthropology , at The University of Western Ontario, invite applications for a full-time probationary (tenure stream) joint position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in any subdiscipline of Anthropology in relation to Black Feminist Anthropology. The successful candidate will have a joint appointment in the two Departments with Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies as the home department. Start date will be July 2025 or as negotiated. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. We seek an emerging Black scholar whose research and teaching will enhance and expand the strengths of both GSWS and Anthropology and whose scholarship examines the diversity and complexity of Black peoples, communities, and/or cultural practices. The successful candidate will engage with Black peoples’ contemporary and/or historical struggles for social justice. The successful candidate will participate in the building of interdisciplinary modules (extant Minor and Major in planning) in Black Studies. Applicants should have the Ph.D. in hand or be in the final stages of its completion, and must demonstrate engagement with Black feminist intellectual practices, both methodologically and conceptually, in teaching and research. Research and teaching foci may involve, but are not limited to, Black cultures and responses to colonial legacies, Black creative practices and cultural production as means of decolonization and resistance, embodiment and social (in)justice, Black intersections with gender, sexuality, class, religion, ability, etc., and Black decolonial activist practices. Applicants should demonstrate how their work engages with important theoretical orientations in contemporary practice. These could include, among others, decolonizing approaches, feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, Indigenous ways of knowing, or Indigenous research methods. The ideal candidate will have a research program that can contribute to both Departments’ strengths and that is aligned with the University’s new Strategic Plan. They will show evidence of participation and leadership in collaborative research projects that emphasize community engagement throughout the research process.