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Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology

Employer
Purdue University Fort Wayne
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Salary
Competitive
Date posted
May 9, 2023

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Position Type
Faculty Positions, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Sociology
Employment Level
Non-Tenured Track
Employment Type
Full Time

Job Details

The Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Purdue University Fort Wayne (pfw.edu) seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology. Areas of expertise are open. This is a nine-month, full-time teaching position for the 2023 – 2024 academic year. The teaching load is four courses per semester. Applicants for the position should be prepared to teach multiple sections of an introductory course in Sociology and an upper-division course in their area of specialization. Opportunities to teach an interdisciplinary, team-taught topics course for the College of Liberal Arts also exists.   

Qualifications: Applicants must either hold a Ph.D. in Sociology or be “all but dissertation” (ABD) status towards obtaining their Ph.D. in Sociology by the start of the 2023 Fall Semester. The applicant must demonstrate relevant teaching experience.

Application Process: Application materials will be accepted immediately, and the position will remain open until filled. For greatest consideration of your application, please submit it by June 5, 2023. Applicants should provide a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a 1- to 2-page teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and a list of three references to https://careers.purdue.edu/FW/go/FW-Faculty/7720100/. Candidates who are invited for a campus visit will deliver a 45- to 60-minute instructional presentation.

Purdue University Fort Wayne is an EEO/AA employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce. All individuals, including minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. The Department of Anthropology and Sociology is committed to advancing diversity in all areas of faculty effort, including research, teaching, and service/engagement. Candidates should address at least one of these areas in their cover letter, indicating their past experiences, current interests or activities, and/or future goals to promote a climate that values diversity and inclusion.

A check of criminal conviction records will be made for employment in this position.  Position contingent on available funding. Purdue University Fort Wayne will not provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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Purdue Fort Wayne

Purdue University Fort Wayne is located in Indiana’s second-largest city and offers a traditional campus experience within a thriving metropolitan setting. As part of the venerable Purdue University system, students earn undergraduate and graduate degrees from one of the most trusted and prestigious brands in higher education. 

With more than 8,000 students and over 300 full-time faculty members, Purdue Fort Wayne is perfectly sized to offer small classes and individualized attention, yet large enough to have all the attributes of a major research university. Students have the opportunity to work alongside faculty to tackle real-world challenges through groundbreaking research, to create exciting new scholarship, and to explore new facets of creative expression.

For more than 50 years, Purdue Fort Wayne has drawn Mastodons from near and far. Our students value the prestigious Purdue name and degree, and they experience the affordability and vibrance of Indiana’s second-largest city, Fort Wayne. We offer a traditional campus experience with perfectly sized classes that allow for individualized attention to help our students thrive. Students also have the opportunity to work alongside faculty to tackle real-world challenges through groundbreaking research and to explore new facets of creative expression.

Purdue Fort Wayne is the only university in the country with a mastodon as a mascot. It’s a distinction that we are proud of, and it represents our unique story.

Mastodons roamed the southern Great Lakes region of North America more than 10,000 years ago. But it was in 1968—four years after the university was founded—that Jack Sunderman, chair of the Department of Geology, identified a leg bone of a mastodon found just south of Angola, Indiana. Sunderman and his team of faculty and students subsequently unearthed the entire mastodon skeleton—along with the skull of a baby mastodon.

Later that year, Steve Pettyjohn, who served as the student body president in
1968–69, wrote a letter to the Communicator, the university newspaper, extolling the virtues of choosing the mastodon as the mascot: “It sounds different, strange. That’s exactly why [we should choose it]. I’m tired of slavishly copying what Bloomington, West Lafayette, and other big schools do. Let’s have the courage to be a little different.”

The following year, a student government committee selected the Mastodon as the university mascot. Don lives on as a fierce representative of Purdue Fort Wayne!

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