Assistant Professor- Social Studies Education

The College of Education at Clemson University seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education beginning Fall Semester 2023.

The Clemson College of Education is a transformative leader in improving education – from birth through adulthood. With a particular focus on serving underperforming schools and underserved communities, the school has award-winning programs that train teachers, school counselors, and school leaders; prepare counselors for community practice; train higher education student affairs leaders; and prepare training and development specialists for business and industry. Clemson equips students for careers and lives that make a difference, and we work tirelessly to develop initiatives that respond to today's educational landscape – including teacher recruitment and retention, online teaching, and leadership development. These innovative efforts are part of Clemson's land-grant mission to serve the state of South Carolina and beyond.

Clemson University

Clemson University is a major, land-grant, science and engineering-oriented Carnegie Research One university in a college town setting along a dynamic Southeastern corridor. Clemson is an inclusive, student-centered community characterized by high academic standards, a culture of collaboration, school spirit, and a competitive drive to excel. Centrally located in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Clemson is in one of the fastest-growing areas of South Carolina. It is a 45 minute drive from Greenville, SC and a two-hour drive from Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA.

Clemson University embraces a strong commitment to diversifying its faculty, student body, and staff. Diversity is recognized to include differences among groups of people and individuals based on ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, gender, age, exceptionalities, language, religion, sexual orientation, and geographical area.

The College of Education understands inclusive excellence as an active process through which the College achieves excellence in learning, teaching, student development, organizational functioning, and engagement in local and global communities by surfacing inequities experienced by internal and external constituents, integrating equity and educational quality efforts, and building theory and context-based practices for sustained organizational change. Read more about the Clemson College of Education’s commitment to inclusive excellence here.

Required Qualifications: Earned doctorate in Social Studies, Curriculum & Instruction, or related field. K-12 teaching experience.

Preferred Qualifications: Minimum three years teaching experience, public 6-12 Social Studies classroom teaching experience preferred.

We are particularly interested in candidates who take a critical orientation to Social Studies research, with knowledge and research interests in one or more of the following fields: issues of race, ethnicity, gender and/or identity, politics and civic identity, critical media literacy and critical race media literacy, and/or the anthropological or philosophical foundations of education.  Our undergraduate program grants broad-field certification to teach in middle and secondary Social Studies classrooms. In alignment with the College of Education’s mission, successful applicants should have an interest in actively engaging with underserved schools and communities across the nation and state.

The new faculty member will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Social Studies education along with occasional educational foundations courses, advise graduate students in their research, develop and maintain an active scholarly research agenda, participate in external research and grant activities, and help support the work of teachers in the state. We believe that faculty diversity is a strength, and encourage applications from scholars of color and/or traditionally marginalized groups.

Please submit an application via Interfolio. Include the following: Letter of application, curriculum vita, unofficial transcripts, and contact information for three references.

Inquiries may be addressed to Dr. Susan Cridland-Hughes, search committee chair at scridla@clemson.edu.  Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. 

For best consideration, applications should be submitted by January 3, 2023.  Review of applications will continue until the position is filled.

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