Teaching Fellow in African-American Studies
- Employer
- Whittier College
- Location
- California, United States
- Salary
- Salary Commensurate with experience
- Date posted
- Mar 17, 2021
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Humanities, American Studies, English & Literature, Ethnic & Multicultural Studies
- Employment Level
- Fellowship
- Employment Type
- Full Time
The Department of English at Whittier College seeks an African-Americanist to fill the inaugural Bayard Rustin Teaching Fellowship. The Rustin Fellowship is designed to recruit and retain faculty from historically underrepresented groups to Whittier College. Applicants may be either recent Ph.D.s or in the writing stage of the dissertation. Rustin Fellows enjoy ample time for research and writing while teaching a reduced load and collaborating with colleagues to develop high impact-pedagogies and deepen the department’s curricular investments in equity and inclusion. Fellows will teach three courses during the year (in a Fall//Spring calendar), at a salary of $67,000 with a small fund for research & professional development. The Fellowship is for one year and renewable for a second, pending favorable review. Rustin Fellows are also eligible for tenure-track consideration, pending budgetary and administrative approval.
Founded by Quakers in 1887, Whittier is an independent, four-year liberal arts college with about 1,700 undergraduates, ideally situated in the scenic hills 18 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.The liberal arts experience at Whittier College is distinguished by small classes and high-impact pedagogies that encourage students to embrace diversity and act with integrity.Whittier faculty have a passion for teaching and advising undergraduate students and are committed to weaving issues of equity and inclusion into their work. The student body at Whittier mirrors the diversity of greater Los Angeles. As an Hispanic-serving and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution, Whittier is one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges in the country. We are an AA/EOE employer.
We invite applicants to submit by April 15, 2021 a letter of application focused on the candidate’s teaching aspirations, as well as a graduate transcript, CV, two letters of reference and a 10-15 page sample of scholarship to the Chair of the English Department, Jonathan Burton. All materials should be submitted to Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/16625/positions
Preliminary interviews will be conducted by telephone in late April.
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