[Linganth] Asst Prof of Anthro, Mount Holyoke College

[Lynn Morgan]

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College
invites applications for a tenure-track, assistant level anthropologist who
specializes in classical and contemporary anthropological theory, beginning
fall 2016.  We are especially interested in candidates who conduct
ethnographic research in sociolinguistics and the politics of language.
This position has a 2-2 teaching load, and the successful candidate will
teach courses at all levels of the curriculum including introduction to
cultural anthropology and required theory courses for the major.
Applicants are expected to have a Ph.D.

Mount Holyoke is an undergraduate liberal arts college for women with 2,200
students and 220 faculty. Over half of the faculty are women; one-fourth
are persons of color. Mount Holyoke is located about 80 miles west of
Boston in the Connecticut River valley, and is a member of the Five College
Consortium consisting of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith
Colleges and the University of Massachusetts.

Mount Holyoke is committed to enriching the education experience it offers
through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff members.
Mount Holyoke College seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse
faculty who will contribute to the college’s academic excellence, diversity
of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society. In
furtherance of academic excellent, the College encourages applications from
individuals from underrepresented groups in the professoriate, including
African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native
Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders, first generation college students,
individuals who have followed non-traditional pathways to college due to
exceptional talent and motivation in the face of adversity, such as
societal, economic or academic disadvantages, and individuals with a
demonstrated commitment to applying and including diverse backgrounds and
perspectives to learning, scholarship, service, and leadership in the
academy.

The successful candidate will demonstrate competence in working with
students who are broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity,
socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion.

Please submit: letter of application, CV including contact information for
three referees, writing sample (up to 25 pages), one-page statement of
teaching philosophy/practice (including evidence of a commitment to
mentoring a diverse study body), and no more than 3 sample course syllabi.
Applications must be received by October 30, 2015 in electronic form, and
must be made online at https://jobs.mtholyoke.edu
<https://jobsearch.mtholyoke.edu/>.



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Lynn M. Morgan
Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, MA  01075-1426
tel:  413-538-2108
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