UCLA Department of Asian American Studies Faculty Position in Pacific Islander Studies

UCLA Department of Asian American Studies Faculty Position in Pacific Islander Studies
University of California Los Angeles


Requisition Number: JPF07965


The Department of Asian American Studies in partnership with the Asian American Studies Center (AASC) at UCLA invites applications from Pacific Islander Studies scholars in the humanities, social sciences and/or the arts for an open rank position. We seek an innovative thinker who already is or has the potential to become a leading scholar of Pacific Islander issues in the United States and related diasporas and whose work will play an important role in shaping public narratives and/or public debates concerning Pacific Islander peoples and communities. This position is part of the Chancellor's Native American and Pacific Islander Bruins Rising Initiative that aims to create an ecosystem of support for Indigenous research, teaching and civic and community engagement. We are open to scholars with a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.

The UCLA Department of Asian American Studies is one of the largest Asian American Studies programs in the nation, which includes 20 core faculty and 11 affiliated faculty. The Department offers a Master of Arts degree and two concurrent degree programs: Asian American Studies MA/Public Health MPH with the Fielding School of Public Health Department of Community Health Sciences and Asian American Studies MA/Social Welfare MSW with the Luskin School of Public Affairs Department of Social Welfare. As a field, Asian American Studies emerged at UCLA over a half century ago to serve the demands of diverse constituencies united by a need to link community engagement, innovative scholarship, and principled change. To address those needs, our field has prioritized interdisciplinary approaches to labor, migration, gendered racialization, empire, sexuality, and myriad forms of organizing, resistance, community, and creativity. Through our research, teaching, and service, we have maintained a commitment to social and economic justice by providing a home in the academy for envisioning and implementing those objectives. For additional information about the Department of Asian American Studies, please visit https://asianam.ucla.edu.

This appointment resides in the Department of Asian American Studies. The appointee will also be affiliated with the Asian American Studies Center and join its Faculty Advisory Committee. The Asian American Studies Center is one of the four ethnic studies centers in the UCLA Institute of American Cultures established in 1969 with over 50 Faculty Advisory Committee members. It publishes Amerasia Journal, AAPI Nexus, and numerous books, reports and policy briefs. It has launched the AAPI Policy Initiative to inform advocacy and policy making and the Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander studies to high school, college, and lifelong learners. The Asian American Studies Center and the Institute of American Cultures will offer the person hired an additional community of scholars. For additional information about the Asian American Studies Center and the Institute of American Cultures, please visit https://www.aasc.ucla.edu; www.iac.ucla.edu.

Los Angeles is a global city renowned for its dynamism, robust economy, rich cultural diversity, and spectacular climate. UCLA offers a competitive salary and attractive benefits packages, including a housing assistance program for new faculty members. The University of California seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.

The successful candidate is expected to hold a PhD or equivalent is required by date of hire. Preference will be given to candidates that hold a PhD (or terminal degree) in the arts, humanities or social sciences with pertinent expertise in Pacific Islander Studies at time appointment. To be guaranteed full consideration, all materials must be submitted via UCLA Academic Recruit. The committee will be reviewing applications starting on December 16, 2022 and will review submissions until the position is filled. To apply, please submit (1) a CV, (2) a brief cover letter, (3) a research statement of fewer than 1,000 words highlighting scholarly contributions of recent research and plans for the near future, (4) one publication or writing sample that best represents your work, (5) a statement of fewer than 500 words that describes your approach to teaching, lists undergraduate and graduate courses you could teach, and briefly describes one of these courses, (6) a statement that addresses past and/or potential contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion, (7) names of three referees who know you and your work well to submit letters of recommendation on your behalf, and (8) an Authorization to Release Information Form.

Title, rank and salary will be commensurate with credentials and experience. Candidates at the senior level may be considered for the Morgan and Helen Chu Chair in Asian American Studies. The anticipated appointment start date is July 1, 2023.

The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, bullying and other demeaning behavior, discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this commitment as well as a commitment to addressing all forms of academic misconduct, UCLA conducts targeted employment reference checks for finalists to whom departments or other hiring units would like to extend formal offers of appointment into Academic Senate faculty positions. The targeted employment reference checks involve contacting the finalists' current and prior places of employment to ask whether there have been substantiated findings of misconduct that would violate the University's Faculty Code of Conduct. To implement this process, UCLA requires all applicants for Academic Senate faculty positions to complete, sign, and upload the form entitled "Authorization to Release Information" into RECRUIT as part of their application. If the applicant does not include the signed authorization to release information with the application materials, the application will be considered incomplete. As with any incomplete application, the application will not receive further consideration. Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the entire application, only finalists (i.e., those to whom the department or other hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer) considered for Academic Senate faculty positions will be subject to targeted employment reference checks.


To apply, please visit: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF07965


The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy, https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/DiscHarassAffirmAction


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