University of Utah Assistant Professorship in Black Studies

Deadline:

November 15

Length/Track:

Tenure track

Description:

“The ideal candidate will have a strong interdisciplinary approach to the field and be dedicated to pushing the boundaries of Black Studies as both a field and praxis. We especially invite applicants whose research is transdisciplinary and explores one or more of the following areas:

  • Black embodiment, including Disability Studies, and medical racism
  • Black Queer Studies
  • Black spatio-temporalities, including Black geographies, migrations, Black fugitivities and futurities, afro-futurism, global, decolonial, anticolonial, diasporic, online and outer space/cosmos, and Black ecological thought
  • Black archival theory, including accounting, numeracy, Black technologies and digitalities, methods – quantitative and qualitative, science and the mathematics of Black life
  • Black arts and performance, including Black Aesthetics, Visual Studies, Sound Studies, Black curation, Museum Studies, Black Literary Studies, Performance Studies, and Poetics.”

“Applicants must be capable of teaching a range of courses including both introductory courses such as Introduction to Black Studies, as well as Advanced Critical Studies courses which address students’ interests such as in social movements, policy, economics, climate justice and the environment, racial justice, science, technology, and medicine, and their intersections.

URL:

https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/171135