The Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts, invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position of Professor and Chair to begin 08/29/2022. The Chair is the department’s chief academic, financial, and strategic officer who works to recruit, mentor, and retain outstanding faculty and undergraduate students. The preferred rank at the time of appointment is Professor, however, advanced Associate Professors with prior leadership and administrative experience will also be considered. We are seeking candidates who are willing to serve as Chair for at least 3 years, then join the department’s regular tenured faculty at the conclusion of the chair appointment.
This is a 100%-time position holding both a faculty appointment and an administrative appointment. The faculty appointment is a 9-month academic year appointment; the administrative appointment as Chair is a twelve-month appointment. A PhD or foreign equivalent in a related field is required. Salary is competitive.
Applicants from all disciplines are invited to apply, but we are especially interested in candidates whose Chicana/o/x Studies and/or Latina/o/x Studies scholarship will complement existing departmental strengths and faculty research portfolios. Among the areas in which we are interested: Literature, Political Science, Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Environmental Studies, and other interdisciplinary fields grounded in the social sciences. As we work to expand our Latina/o/x Studies curriculum, we are also interested in scholarship that focuses on Central American, South American, and/or Caribbean communities in the United States. For more information, please visit cla.umn.edu/chicano-latino.
The ideal candidates will be those with a distinguished record of teaching, advising, and service, including administrative experience at a research institution. We are looking for someone who displays high levels of academic leadership and will serve as a leader and mentor for our pre-tenure faculty and represent our department to the wider college, university, and community.
The Department
Founded in 1972 as a result of student activism and guided by El Plan de Santa Barbara, the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota was the first department of its kind in the Upper Midwest. Our department has evolved to become a Department of Chicano and Latino Studies responding to the ongoing demographic changes occurring in Minnesota and throughout the nation. During our fifty-year history, we have been committed to research, teaching, and service through reciprocal and redistributive relationships with university and off-campus partners. To that end, we offer a rigorous undergraduate degree program that is complemented by extensive civic engagement, outreach efforts, and public programming activities. With only four core faculty at present, we are, however, strengthened by being a part of the Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender and Sexuality Studies cluster of units (RIDGS), which have been at the forefront of teaching and advancing research and community engagement about complex issues of identities, histories and systems of power and inequality, and imaginings of social transformation.
Duties/Responsibilities
Faculty in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies in the College of Liberal Arts are expected to maintain an active research agenda that includes publication, teaching courses in area(s) of specialty as well as core Chicano and Latino Studies curriculum, advise students, and contribute service to the department, college, university, profession, and broader communities as appropriate. Applicants may find our course offerings here, which are labeled CHIC by the Registrar. As mentioned before, we seek an applicant who is prepared to lead the Department as Chair for at least a three-year term at the start of their hire. For information on workload guidelines and principles, click here. The Standards for Promotion and Tenure in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies are available at: https://faculty.umn.edu/sites/faculty.umn.edu/files/chicano_studies.pdf
The Institution
Established in 1868, the College of Liberal Arts supports the University of Minnesota's land-grant mission as home to disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The College of Liberal Arts is committed to intellectual freedom, the pursuit of new knowledge, and the belief that the liberal arts are the foundation of academic learning. CLA prepares students to be independent, critical, and original thinkers, innovators in their chosen fields; to create meaning in their lives and in their life’s work; and to become productive citizens and leaders in their communities and the world. The College of Liberal Arts values diverse cultures, experiences, and perspectives as key to innovation and excellent education. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.cla.umn.edu.
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people. The University resides on Dakota land ceded in the Treaties of 1837 and 1851.
Founded in 1851, the University of Minnesota, with its five campuses and more than 65,000 students, is one of the largest, most comprehensive universities in the United States, and ranks among the most prestigious research universities in the world. It is both a major research institution, with scholars of national and international reputation, and a state land-grant university with a strong tradition of education and public engagement. The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus is located in the heart of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, which is rich in cultural and natural attractions, and where the greatest concentration of the 300,000 people of Latino descent in Minnesota live and work. Latino-owned businesses, organizations and cultural events are numerous, and our department has historically had an important presence in the community through initiatives of outreach and engagement.
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In order to be considered for this position, all applicants must apply online. Internal applicants can apply here; if you are external to the University, apply here.
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Review of applications will begin November 1st. We encourage applications before that date, but applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.
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