Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies

The Department of African and African American Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a tenure‐track position at the rank of assistant professor of any region of Africa or the African Diaspora in the areas of Art History, Environmental Studies, or Demography and Migration. Applicants in art history, anthropology, psychology, law, political science, sociology, geography, or philosophy will be considered; candidates with expertise in environmental studies may exceed this list by having qualifications associated with one or more physical sciences. Applicants can be either newly graduated Ph.Ds. or more advanced junior scholars. The starting date for the position is July 1, 2021. All applications should be submitted via Interfolio (apply.interfolio.com/78452).

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