Department:

African Afrl-Amer and Diaspora - 315200

09/25/2024

10/30/2024

No

Permanent Faculty

Teaching Assistant Professor

Fixed Term Faculty

FAC0005250

Full-Time Permanent

40

1

North Carolina, US

Dependent on Experience and/or Qualifications

07/01/2025

The Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies is seeking a Teaching Assistant Professor to begin on 7/1/25. Prospective candidates should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the names, titles, and emails of four references. Consideration of applications will begin on October 30, 2024.


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comprehensive benefits package, paid leave, and a variety of health, life and retirement plans and additional programs that support a healthy work/life balance.

As the largest unit on campus, the College of Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of the Carolina experience. The College consists of 43 academic departments and curricula and numerous programs, centers and institutes. It is home to more than 18,000 undergraduate students, including all of the University's first-year and second-year students. About 2,300 graduate students study and teach in the College. The Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies is a transnational program that emphasizes the histories, cultures, cultural linkages, and contemporary sociopolitical and economic realities of Africa and the African Diasporas in the context of a globalizing world. We approach these areas of study from multiple perspectives, and as an interdisciplinary program, our faculty are trained in the fields of anthropology, film, history, international development studies, linguistics, literature, music, and political science. The department offers a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration either in African Studies or African American and Diaspora Studies. We also offer several undergraduate minors, as well as language instruction in Swahili, Wolof, and Yoruba. In the fall of 2025, the Department will welcome its inaugural cohort of graduate students as it launches its PhD program in Africana Studies.

The Teaching Assistant Professor position will work with both the Department and the UNC-CH African Studies Center to create and offer a full complement of Yoruba language courses (elementary through advanced levels), as well as teach content area courses on topics pertaining to historical and contemporary developments among Yoruba peoples and cultures in Africa and the larger diaspora. The current department teaching load is three courses per semester. The position will also include service to the department which includes, but is not limited to, student advising and mentoring, committee assignments, and participation in departmental and campus activities that advance the study of Yoruba language and culture.

Ph.D. in a disciplinary or interdisciplinary field relevant to language studies and/or African Studies more generally.

Advanced fluency in the Yoruba language and demonstrable familiarity with Yoruba culture and history, as well as the contemporary affairs of Nigeria.

Not Applicable.