Assistant Professor - Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The University of Wisconsin – La Crosse invites applicants for a tenure-track position in the department of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 2022. The RGSS department is committed to building and maintaining a diverse community of dynamic scholars and activists. The department houses degrees and certificate programs in Ethnic and Racial Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Social Justice, and Hmong American Studies as well as a Self-Sufficiency Program that serves the larger community in La Crosse and surrounding areas.   We seek a candidate whose research and teaching focus on Global and Transnational Feminisms with an emphasis on the Global South. Successful candidates will be committed to teaching and researching at the intersections of global systems of power, including gender, race, class, sexuality, globalization, and imperialism, and will have the ability to teach a critical methods/advocacy course within the department. The department is especially interested in areas of emphasis that may include race- and gender-based disparities in global healthcare systems, reproductive justice, and/or public health. The department would also consider the ability to teach undergraduate courses focusing on, but not limited to, gendered geographies of environmental hazards, global LGBTQ+ movements and identities, and/or diasporic feminisms and/or women of color feminisms.   Housed in the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, the successful candidate must be committed to excelling in undergraduate teaching; assist in the development of courses and curricula in their area of expertise; and continuing or developing a line of research and scholarship in their own area of expertise which can include undergraduate researchers. Candidates with diverse backgrounds and/or experience working with diverse populations and an interest in helping us build upon the department’s commitment to diversity (broadly defined) in its faculty, staff, and students, are particularly encouraged to apply. The candidate for this position should also be an educator with strong collaboration and communication skills who is committed to teaching excellence. A typical teaching load at UWL is 4/4, with a one-course teaching reassignment in the first semester of their first year.