California State University Sacramento

Sacramento, CA

Tenure Track Faculty — Pan African Studies (Ethnic Studies) at Sacramento State — 2 positions

Deadline: December 1, 2022

Department: Ethnic Studies

Type of Appointment: Tenure-track/tenured

Position Description:

DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:

The Ethnic Studies Department has been in existence for more than 50 years at Sacramento State. The Department is comprised of the following programs: Asian American Studies, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, General Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, Pan African Studies, and Teachers in Urban Settings or Teachers in Bilingual Education. Ethnic Studies is a degree-granting interdisciplinary program offering course work in the study of the past and present histories, cultures, languages and issues that define ethnic group experiences in the United States. In addition to its teaching mission, the department is involved in research and community-based projects. For more information about this department: https://www.csus.edu/college/social-sciences-interdisciplinary-studies/ethnic-studies/.

POSITION DETAILS:

The Department of Ethnic Studies at invites applications for two full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor positions beginning Fall 2023. The Ethnic Studies Department and the Pan-African Studies Program seeks individuals who are knowledgeable in the African Diaspora.

The department seeks candidates that specialize in Black Feminism/Pan African Womanist Experience and/or the Pan African Diaspora with focus in one or more of the following areas: Peoples, communities and/or transnational connections within the Black Atlantic Region including but not limited to: the Caribbean; Central America; South America; new African Diaspora populations and communities developing throughout the United States.

In our retention, tenure and promotion decisions, teaching is weighed 55%, research is 15%, University service is 15% and community service is 15%.

JOB DUTIES:

1. Teaching our undergraduate and/or graduate Ethnic Studies courses including: ETHN 11: Introduction to Ethnic Studies; ETHN 70: Introduction to Pan African Studies; ETHN 170: Pan African Studies, and ETHN 100: Ethnic America.

2. Teaching General Education Area F. https://www.csus.edu/college/social-sciences-interdisciplinary-studies/ethnic-studies/spotlight/area-f-criteria-page.html

3. Engaging in an active research agenda/scholarly activities in Pan African Studies/Ethnic Studies.

4. Developing partnerships and/or engage in community activism/organizing within African American and/or African Diaspora communities.

5. Advising and mentoring a diverse student population.

6. Providing professional service within the department, college, and/or university.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

1) Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies, Pan African Studies, or related discipline. J.D. (Juris Doctor), Ed.D., or ABD candidates will be considered. If ABD, candidates will be required to complete the doctoral degree by August 1, 2023.

2) Specialization in critical, comparative, intersectional, and/or interdisciplinary, approaches of Pan African Studies

3) Specialization in Black Feminism/Pan African Womanist Experience and/or a specialty in the Pan African Diaspora with focus in one or more of the following areas: Peoples, communities and/or transnational connections within the Black Atlantic Region including but not limited to: the Caribbean; Central America; South America; new African Diaspora populations and communities developing throughout the United States.

4) Demonstrate an active research agenda that reflects relevant and/or contemporary trends in Pan African Studies and Ethnic Studies.

5) Demonstrate the ability to develop partnerships and/or engage in community activism/organizing within African American and/or African Diaspora communities.

6) Demonstrate the ability to teach courses that satisfy GE area F, such as ETHN 11: Introduction to Ethnic Studies and ETHN 70: Introduction to Pan African Studies.

7) Demonstrate the ability to teach undergraduate upper-division Ethnic Studies courses such as ETHN 100: Ethnic America, ETHN 170: Pan African Studies and ETHN 194: Research in Ethnic Studies.

8) Demonstrate the ability to develop upper division courses in Pan African Studies and/or Ethnic Studies.

9) Experience working effectively with diverse populations such as first-generation college, low-income, underserved, underrepresented students.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Ability to teach one or more of the following courses: ETHN 71: Leadership in the African Diaspora; ETHN 72: Black Images in Popular Culture; ETHN 117 Black Political Thought; ETHN 141 Politics of the African Diaspora; ETHN 172 Black Women in America; ETHN 173 The Black Family in the United States; ETHN 177A: Genocide and Human Rights: Africa and ETHN 179: Black Music and Black Consciousness.

2. Ability to develop new lower division and upper division courses that reflect contemporary trends in Pan African Studies and/or Ethnic Studies.

3. Preference will be given to candidates with critical pedagogies and methodologies that reflect Pan African Studies/Ethnic Studies.

4. Ability to mentor first-generation college, low-income, underserved, underrepresented students.

5. Experience as a teaching assistant, college/university lecturer, or professor in Pan African Studies/Ethnic Studies courses.

6. Experience in creating and integrating anti-racism in the curriculum and classroom.

Interfolio Letters: Accepted