Apply for Jobs Applicant Login Career Portal Help Subscribe to Job Alerts Refine Your Search Filter Results Work type Full-time 1 Locations UConn Storrs 1 Categories Faculty Department Head/Director 1 Professor and Department Head Apply now Search #: 499673 Work type: Full-time Location: UConn Storrs Categories: Faculty Department Head/Director JOB SUMMARY The University of Connecticut seeks a dynamic leader to serve
as Head of the Department of Social and Critical Inquiry (SCI). This department is a new interdisciplinary unit that was established in 2024 through collaborative efforts of faculty across its four areas: American Studies; Asian and Asian American Studies; Native American and Indigenous Studies; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, which includes a focus on Feminist Disability Studies. This position is the
second among five additional lines planned for the Department. The next Department Head will provide strategic leadership to guide the development and implementation of a shared and coherent academic program. The department is dedicated to public engagement and interdisciplinary research, and we therefore solicit applications from academic leaders who possess wide-ranging administrative skills, expertise in team
building, experience advancing collaborative research, and directing academic innovation. The successful candidate will be appointed fully in Social and Critical Inquiry at the rank of Professor and will be expected to lead the department’s areas by strengthening the academic and professional success of its faculty, students, and staff, and developing its diverse, vibrant, and inclusive intellectual community. For
this position, we seek applicants who teach and research in the Department’s areas or in related fields. Successful candidates will have a strong record of publication demonstrating interdisciplinary excellence and a track record of collaborative faculty initiatives that could be public, tribal, and/or community-partnered in nature. The University of Connecticut is a public land-grant institution that acknowledges
that the land on which we gather is the territory of the Eastern Pequot, Golden Hill Paugussett, Lenape, Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan, Nipmuc and Schaghticoke Peoples who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We thank them for their strength and resilience in protecting this land and aspire to uphold our responsibilities according to their example. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The Department Head works
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