Assistant Professor Position in Critical Race Studies, Gender & Decolonial Methods

Offer Description

This vacancy is part of a broad recruitment campaign. Utrecht University’s Faculty of Humanities is looking for more than 40 talented and passionate assistant professors. Based on their subject matter expertise, they will contribute to strengthening our interdisciplinary education and its connection with urgent social themes.

They are looking for colleagues who find it interesting and challenging to teach and conduct research within more than one disciplinary and institutional context. Such a cross-boundary perspective is most successful and satisfying when working from a specialisation. They are therefore looking for colleagues who unite a subject specialisation with a discipline-transcending perspective and who can give shape to multi-, inter- or transdisciplinary team teaching and team science from a specific subject expertise within and between the broad domains of Philosophy and Religious Studies, History and Art History, Media and Cultural Studies, and Languages, Literature and Communication (or who want to develop further in this).

They are looking for a new colleague specializing in decolonial feminist critique, specifically in the context of cultural heritage, curating, visual culture, memory studies, and citizenship to contribute, conceptually and methodologically, to decolonial research approaches and practices.

The candidate provides an innovative take on issues of social justice, emancipation, equality, and diversity and inclusion, offering more relational approaches of inquiry. They invite applications from scholars with broader research and teaching expertise in critical race studies, postcolonialism, Global South/Global North perspectives, gender studies, and familiar with participatory and community-based or other creative/qualitative research methodologies with a background in postcolonial or gender studies, or adjacent fields. A successful candidate will also contribute to interdisciplinary collaboration within the Faculty of Humanities and beyond.

Requirements

They are looking for a colleague who:

• has teaching and research expertise in the domain of critical race studies, gender and decolonial methods;
• holds a completed PhD in postcolonial or gender studies, or adjacent fields;
• has a vision on, and perhaps experience with, ways to link that domain in teaching and/or research with other knowledge domains, based on an articulated teaching and research philosophy (multi-, inter-, or transdisciplinarity);
• has an open attitude and are able to switch easily within multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams;
• is interested in team teaching and team science to address social issues;
• has experience or interest in computational and/or data-driven perspectives on the field of this position. This will be considered an advantage.

Candidates are expected to be able to teach in Dutch and English. International candidates will be helped to acquire Dutch language skills in the first two years of their appointment.

Benefits

They offer a temporary position (1.0 FTE) for one year in an international working environment. After positive evaluation, this can be turned into a permanent position. The allocation is permanently set to 40% research and 60% teaching. Within the 60% for teaching, there is 10% free space that will not be scheduled. The gross salary – depending on previous qualifications and experience – ranges between €3,974 and €6,181 (scale 11-12 according to the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities) per month for a full-time employment. Salaries are supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3% per year.

Organisation

Utrecht University

Location

Research field

Deadline

27th February 2023

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