Department of African and African American Studies

TITLE/RANK: Assistant Professor-Fulltime Tenure Track Position, African and African American Studies.

DEPARTMENT: Department of African and African American Studies.

DESCRIPTION: The Department of African and African American Studies, Indiana State University, invites applicants for a position of assistant professor, tenure track, in African and African American Studies, with research and teaching specialty in ethnomusicology, beginning fall, 2008. Appointee will teach foundation survey courses and disciplinary methods seminars in African and African American Studies, broadly defined, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Position open to scholar-teachers specializing in jazz, gospel, and spirituals, blues and rock studies; expertise in ethnomusicology methods essential. Candidates should be prepared to teach a broad range of courses in African or African American music, as well as the department's core courses.
The African and African American Studies curriculum is an interdisciplinary program that draws on scholars from many other departments, including music, history, English, political
science, sociology, and art. For more information about the department, please visit our web site at http://www.indstate.edu/afri/.
Applications should include a vita, a cover letter elaborating on the candidate's research and teaching interests and teaching experience, and three letters of reference. Send completed applications to: Chair, African and African American Studies Search Committee, Department of African and African American Studies, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809. Screening begins October 15, 2007. ISU encourages the applications of women and minority scholars; ISU has a higher percentage of diverse and multicultural students than any other Indiana university.