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Associate/Full Professor of Africana Studies

Employer
Lehman College
Location
Bronx, New York

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Faculty Jobs
Arts & Humanities, Ethnic & Cultural Studies
Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

The Department of Africana Studies at Lehman College of The City University of New York invites applications for a tenured associate or full professorship beginning Fall 2019. Candidates must have an active record of research/scholarship/creative works, and a strong commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The department is currently making a significant impact in the Bronx and broader NYC region. With this growth we seek a dynamic scholar who has a strong teaching, publication, and leadership record in the discipline/field.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate level courses in Caribbean Societies, African American politics and law; engage in continued scholarly activity; advise students; provide service to the department, college, university, and community (i.e. committee, administrative, supervisory, and other assignments normally associated with a full-time tenured academic appointment). Evening teaching may be required.

Lehman College is The City University of New York's only four-year college in the Bronx, serving the borough and surrounding region as an intellectual, economic, and cultural center. Lehman provides undergraduate and graduate studies in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education within a dynamic research environment. With a diverse student body of more than 14,000 students and more than 81,000 alumni, Lehman offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs. Ranked as having the fourth highest mobility rate in the nation by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Equality of Opportunity Project, Lehman is a proud catalyst for economic and social mobility for its students, almost half of whom are first generation college students.

The department is currently making a significant impact in the Bronx and broader NYC region. With this growth we seek a dynamic scholar who has a strong teaching, publication, and leadership record in the discipline/field. Our undergraduate students represent the department annually in the undergraduate research symposium, and some move onto graduate programs (CUNY Graduate Center, Ohio State University Graduate Program, etc.). Our undergraduate student enrollment is booming with over 100 majors and minors combined enrolled in 2017 and again in 2018; and the number of majors and minors graduates increased from 24 in 2015 to 50 in 2018.

Qualifications
PhD required. Doctorate in Africana/Black Studies or Political Science preferred. Candidate must have a strong background in the field of African American and Caribbean geopolitical area studies. We seek a candidate with proven leadership skills at the departmental level, a strong publication record that is current, and the potential for ongoing publications. Also required are the ability to teach successfully, demonstrated scholarship or achievement, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution.

How to Apply
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Candidates must attach a resume, cover letter, and three professional references (name, title, organization, and contact information).

Closing Date - January 17, 2019

Equal Employment Opportunity
CUNY encourages people with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women to apply. At CUNY, Italian Americans are also included among our protected groups. Applicants and employees will not be discriminated against on the basis of any legally protected category, including sexual orientation or gender identity. EEO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer.

Organization

Lehman College serves the Bronx and surrounding region as an intellectual, economic, and cultural center. Lehman College provides undergraduate and graduate studies in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education within a dynamic research environment, while embracing diversity and actively engaging students in their academic, personal, and professional development.lehman_college_of_the_city_university_of_new_york1.jpg

Lehman College has entered a new era in its history as an institution of higher education. Already known for its outstanding faculty, dedicated staff, superb library, art gallery, theaters, speech and hearing clinic, and athletic facilities, the College will now build a new state of the art, environmentally “green” science facility that will invigorate faculty and student research as well as prepare Lehman students for science-based careers.

As the only CUNY senior college in the borough and southern Westchester County, Lehman College has adapted to meet changing conditions and is poised to respond to new needs and challenges.

lehman_college_of_the_city_university_of_new_york2.jpgOn the undergraduate level, Lehman's General Education Curriculum is designed to provide a broad knowledge of the achievements and methods of the liberal arts and sciences and to develop student abilities to participate responsively in informed inquiry into subjects of both public and personal concern. On the graduate level, the College has developed professional programs in nursing, teacher and counselor preparation, accounting, computer science, health services, and speech-language pathology. The College also offers strong traditional liberal arts graduate programs in art, biology, English, history, Spanish and mathematics.

For more than two decades, Lehman has deepened its involvement with the surrounding community. The opening of the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in 1980 and the Lehman College Art Gallery in 1984 has made the College a cultural center for the region. Together with the City and the Humanities Program, the Department of Music, and the Theatre program, they present dozens of concerts, plays, dance performances, and exhibitions that are free or nominally priced.

Lehman College also provides a variety of community services. The Institute for Literacy Studies sponsors classes to teach adults fundamentals of reading and writing, while the Speech and Hearing Center offers comprehensive evaluations of hearing and speech-language disorders.

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Lehman has joined with the Bronx Superintendent of Schools’ Office and the educational reform organization New Visions for Public Schools to develop seven new small high schools in the Bronx. The schools—housed within larger, traditional high schools—are formed around the themes of the visual arts, teaching, music, college readiness, health sciences, nursing and allied health, and community research and learning.

In addition, in Fall 2003, the High School of American Studies at Lehman College opened on the Lehman campus. One of New York City’s new specialized high schools and the only one to focus on American history, the school represents a collaboration among Lehman College, the New York City Department of Education, and the Gilder-Lehrman Foundation.

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