Classification Title: Assistant Professor

College/Division: College of Arts and Sciences

Department: CAS Walker Institute

Advertised Salary Range: We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Advertised Job Summary:

The faculty of the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina, Columbia campus, invites applications for a 9-month, full time, jointly-appointed tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor to begin August 16, 2024. Pandemics, armed conflict, and poverty bring into sharp relief inequitable and unjust structures of gender that are present in all human societies. Humanitarian action to protect people and alleviate suffering often struggle to provide equitable outcomes for women, marginalized gender groups, and sexual minorities. We seek a scholar working in these contexts whose scholarship engages with the advancement of human rights related to gender relations and/or sexuality, and the tensions between universal definitions and context-specific practices of humanitarian action.

The successful candidate will have a tenure-track home in either Geography, History, or Political Science with a joint-appointment in the Walker Institute. Teaching loads in these units are normally 2/2. Teaching and service responsibilities will be divided between the tenure department and the Walker Institute. Teaching responsibilities in the Walker Institute will include courses that meet the curricular needs of the B.A. in Global Studies, which may include area studies courses.

Advertised Minimum Qualifications :

Candidates must have a doctoral degree in Geography, History, or Political Science, or a closely related field that may include interdisciplinary studies or area studies by the start date.

Full/Part Time: Full Time