Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Faculty Position in Critical Race and Media Studies

Description

The Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment in Critical Race and Media Studies to begin in August 2025. This interdisciplinary department, the newest at the College, offers a major and minor in which students organize their curricular plan along one of the following tracks: Social Change and Transformation; Race and Intersectionality; Representation and Cultural Expressions; Transnational Approaches. We welcome perspectives that generate new ways of thinking about media cultures and their relationships with law and governance, embodiment, and radical and revolutionary traditions (e.g., Black Marxism, Subaltern studies, decolonial epistemologies, or new media social justice activism). A comparative or transnational approach is also desired. This position involves teaching introductory and intermediate courses as well as upper-level electives in the instructor’s specialty. Opportunities also exist for members of the department to involve themselves in advising and mentoring of students, to teach in the first-year Montserrat program, to incorporate community-based learning, or to seek interdisciplinary team-teaching opportunities at the College. We welcome candidates whose teaching and research interests will contribute to other interdisciplinary programs such as Africana Studies; Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies; Asian Studies; Digital Media Studies; and/or Film Studies.

This position carries a 3-2 teaching load with a research leave prior to tenure review of either a full year at 80% salary or a semester at full salary, and generous sabbatical and fellowship leaves for tenured faculty. To enable a smooth transition to Holy Cross, new full-time tenure-track Assistant Professors receive start-up funding to support their research and professional development and have a one-course reduction in their first year of teaching (i.e., 2-2). All full-time appointments offer competitive salaries and full benefits. Faculty at the College cultivate a richly diverse academic community, pursue innovative teaching, and create high-impact scholarship. To learn more about faculty life at the College & the Worcester area, candidates are encouraged to visit our Prospective Faculty page .

Qualifications

Candidates must demonstrate excellence in scholarship and a commitment to effective undergraduate teaching in the context of a liberal arts college. Ph.D. or M.F.A. in a relevant field required by the beginning of the appointment.

Application Instructions

Please submit a cover letter addressing the position requirements listed above, a current curriculum vitae, unofficial undergraduate and graduate transcripts, and a statement on inclusive teaching pedagogy. In your cover letter and statement on teaching, in addition to describing your research and teaching interests, please address how your scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and/or service might support the College’s mission as a Jesuit, undergraduate liberal arts college and its core commitment to diversity and inclusion.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The College of the Holy Cross uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications. Please submit all application materials only through this platform: to https://apply.interfolio.com/152229 . Materials submitted through any other means will not be considered.

Applications should be submitted by October 1, 2024 . Initial interviews of selected applicants via Zoom will take place in late October and campus visits for selected applicants will take place in late November/early December. Candidates invited to the interview stage will be asked to submit a brief research statement and sample of their work; finalists must submit three letters of recommendation before the campus visit stage. Questions about this search may be directed to Nadine Knight ( nknight@holycross.edu ).

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

College of the Holy Cross is a highly selective Catholic liberal arts college in the Jesuit tradition. It enrolls about 3,100 students and is located in Worcester, Massachusetts, a medium-sized city 45 miles west of Boston. The College seeks faculty members whose scholarship, teaching, advising, and on- and off-campus service demonstrate an enduring commitment to academic excellence and who embrace the educational benefits of a richly diverse community. Holy Cross aspires to meet the needs of dual-career couples, in part through its membership in the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts and the New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium .

The College is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and complies with all Federal and Massachusetts laws concerning equal opportunity and affirmative action in the workplace.