Month: November 2018

Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor, 18/19th Century European Art, UCLA

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 18th/19th CENTURY EUROPEAN ART
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES – LOS ANGELES, CA
The Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, invites applications
for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in the arts of 18/19th century Europe, to start July 1, 2019.

We seek a scholar whose work emphasizes methodological innovation as well as connections between Europe and other geographies, and who is interested in cross-field collaboration within the department and the university. Ph.D. in hand at time of appointment required. We especially welcome candidates whose experience in teaching, research, or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to
diversity and excellence.
Please submit letter of interest, curriculum vitae, sample publication, statement of
contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion, and names and contact information for three referees online at: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF04046

 

For more information, contact: Prof. Saloni Mathur (mathur@humnet.ucla.edu), Chair, Search Committee.

Application deadline: November 30, 2018.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.

For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy
(http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct).

Job Opportunity: Director of Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

Vassar College: Director of Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Vassar College seeks Director of Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the most comprehensive art museum in New York’s Hudson Valley (about 75 miles north of Manhattan).
We seek a Director for the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York (https://fllac.vassar.edu/) who can make full use of and build strategically upon the extensive resources in the most comprehensive art museum in the Hudson Valley. Its varied collections, dynamic exhibitions and educational activities reach out to both the college community and a broad regional public. Reporting to the Dean of Strategic Planning and Academic Resources, the Director works closely with the President and senior officers of the College to serve the mission and goals of a residential liberal arts college which has always prized innovation and forward thinking.

Founded in 1861 as one of the earliest women’s colleges (and the first to become co-educational in 1969), the College opened its doors with both an art gallery and an observatory, signaling Vassar’s enduring educational philosophy of sending students “to the source.” Today’s Art Center, designed by Cesar Pelli, is an accredited modern museum whose collections originated with a superb acquisition of Hudson River School paintings at the College’s inception. Between then and now the collection has grown to more than 21,000 works, charting the history of art from Ancient Egypt to the present, and featuring important examples of modern and contemporary painting, sculpture and photography as well as Old Master paintings and works on paper. A locus for encounters with original works of art, the museum is an engine for experimentation that inspires student and faculty research projects in and beyond art history, while fostering connections across all academic disciplines from the humanities to the sciences. Its purpose is to elicit the excitement of discovery, to promote critical and creative thinking, to deepen visual literacy, and to foster in students a full sensorium of intellect and emotion in order to expand imagination and openness to the world around them.

As the public face of the Art Center and leader of an excellent staff, the Director represents Vassar and the Art Center to patrons and partners nationally and globally, is responsible for stewarding and strengthening the assets of the Art Center by judiciously acquiring new works and encouraging significant gifts and bequests to the collection, and encourages a working environment that empowers both innovation and collaboration.

Applicants are expected to possess a Ph.D. in Art History or an allied field, have had direct experience of museum work, and be eager to interact with a varied constituency: faculty and students, administrators, alumnae/i, arts institutions, visitors, outside scholars and potential donors.
Application review begins November 1, 2018, continuing until the position is filled. Cover letter, resume, and contact information from at least three professional references should be submitted electronically to https://employment.vassar.edu. Nominations may be sent to Marianne H. Begemann, Dean of Strategic Planning and Academic Resources, at Loebdirectorsearch@vassar.edu.
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Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor, Art History of Africa and/or of the Americas and their Diasporas (Early Modern to the Contemporary), School of Art, San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University, School of Art seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in art history with a specialization in the visual culture of African and/or the Americas (South, Central, the Caribbean, and Mexico) and their diasporas in any era from the early modern period (c. 1500) to the present.

Position begins August 2019. The mission of San Francisco State University is to create an environment for learning that promotes appreciation of scholarship, freedom, human diversity, and the cultural mosaic of the City of San Francisco and the Bay Area; to promote excellence in instruction and intellectual accomplishment; and to provide broadly accessible higher education for residents of the region, state, the nation, and the world. Ph.D. required. Salary commensurate with qualifications. Position description available at: http://art.sfsu.edu/content/faculty-positions.

Application review begins December 1, 2018 and continues until filled. Send letter of intent, a current CV, a statement on how your teaching and scholarship align with the commitment of the School of Art to foster an inclusive and diverse academic community; writing sample; statement of teaching philosophy; sample syllabi; names and contact information of three references.

Letters of recommendation upon request at a later date.

Applications should be submitted as a single PDF, labeled as follows:  Last Name_First Name_Application. Submit all materials online to: https://sfsu.submittable.com/submit by December 1, 2018. Applications will be reviewed until position is filled. Please email artsrch@sfsu.edu with any questions.

Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor, Architectural/Urban Studies, Vassar College, Art Dept+Urban Studies Dept.

Vassar College: Tenure Track Position in Architectural History and Urban Studies

The Department of Art at Vassar College, in collaboration with the Urban Studies Program, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in architectural and urban history at the level of Assistant Professor to begin in the 2019-20 academic year.

Vassar College is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to increasing the diversity of the campus community and the curriculum, and promoting an environment of equality, inclusion, and respect for difference. Candidates who can contribute to this goal through their teaching, research, advising, and other activities are encouraged to identify their strengths and experiences in this area. Individuals from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and longstanding are particularly encouraged to apply.

We seek an innovative historian of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism with a transnational, diasporic, and/or global approach.

The successful candidate should preferably have a Ph.D. in architectural history or allied field in hand at the time of appointment. The successful candidate will teach courses on architectural history at all levels of the art history curriculum. These courses should encompass global perspectives on architectural design, urban planning, and theory. The candidate will also teach one course a year within the multidisciplinary Urban Studies Program.

Vassar is a highly selective, coeducational liberal arts college of about 2,500 undergraduates located in the Hudson Valley seventy-five miles north of New York City. Faculty are expected to teach broadly in the curricula of their departments and/or programs, advise students, and serve on college-wide and departmental committees. The College has a generous leave policy, provides strong support for research, and encourages multidisciplinary approaches to teaching.

 

To apply, please visit employment.vassar.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=52643 to link to the posting for this position. Candidates should upload the following: cover letter; curriculum vitae; graduate school transcripts (unofficial copies are acceptable for the initial application); statement of teaching experience, interests, and philosophy; and a diversity statement highlighting contributions to and/or future plans for promoting diversity and inclusion through teaching, research and/or professional involvements. Additionally, please submit a sample of scholarly writing, and arrange, with referees, for submission of at least three letters of recommendation to the above site.

Information on employment policies may be found in Vassar’s Faculty Handbook.

Review of applications will begin on December 14, 2018 and will continue until the position is filled. If feasible, interviews will be scheduled at the annual meeting of the College Art Association, in New York City, in February 2019.

Please direct questions regarding the position or application process to Lisa Gail Collins, Chair, Department of Art (licollins@vassar.edu).