Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology

We currently seek a dynamic scholar-teacher to help strengthen our anthropology offerings and participate in the long overdue redesign of our sociocultural anthropology minor while forging innovative connections across our expanding departmental programs in communication and civil society, fashion studies, film studies, food studies, global communications and journalism. Such interdisciplinary connections could take many forms, including the design of an interdisciplinary major with sociocultural anthropology at its core. We need a versatile colleague who can teach across our curriculum, clearly articulating anthropology's relevance from first-year students discovering the discipline to seniors engaged in advanced research projects to graduate students in our communications programs.

Our ideal candidate is a scholar whose research and teaching engage some of the urgent questions of our time through innovative ethnographic appr...