Assistant Professor - Native American and Indigenous Studies

JOB Assistant Professor - Native American and Indigenous Studies Job no: 533229 Location: San José State University, San José, California, USA Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as established by the CSU Salary Schedule.
Anticipated hiring academic year annual salary range: $83,000 - $88,000.
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Target Start Date: August 2024 Application Deadline: December 8, 2023 San José State University Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (SISS) invites applications for an assistant professor position emphasizing California native communities, the urban Indigenous experience, community research, and decolonizing methodologies.
Responsibilities include teaching Native American and Indigenous Studies courses, building the program’s curriculum, and helping to develop a minor and a B.
A.
degree.
Candidates should demonstrate how their research, teaching, and experience connect with decolonizing methodologies and community-based participatory research.
The area of specialization within Native American and Indigenous Studies is open.
Still, candidate profiles should reflect the ability to help develop a curriculum around decolonization and connecting local, regional, and transnational issues.
Candidates should be able to apply critical, indigenizing, decolonial, and culturally sustaining methods to their instruction.
The successful candidate will be interested in developing, managing, and strengthening cross-departmental partnerships and have a history of working with tribes and Indigenous communities and developing community-based projects and partnerships in higher education.
Additional professional responsibilities include research, scholarship and creative activity, and service to the University, profession, and community.
These responsibilities generally include advising students, participation in campus and system-wide committees, maintaining office hours, working collaboratively and productively with colleagues, and participating in traditional academic functions.
Successful candidates will establish an on-campus presence at SJSU to fulfill their teaching and service responsibilities.
The Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences department is part of the College of Social Sciences, which is committed to equitable and inclusive teaching and learning.
The College sees faculty and student success as inextricably linked and strives to provide culturally-sustaining and academically-affirming approaches to supporting and engaging students and faculty.
We provide opportunities for faculty development around asset-based, holistic student success and support scholarship of engagement that addresses issues that affect our campus and community.
We strive to build leadership capacity and foster a culture of support and belonging for faculty, staff, and students.
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We consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
It is the policy of SJSU to provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities who self-disclose.