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Cluster Hire: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Of Music And Gender Studies (Ethnomusicology)

Cluster Hire

This tenure-track position is included in the University of Mississippi, College of Liberal Arts inaugural cluster hire. This faculty cluster hire initiative is designed to expand our understanding of multicultural competence as it relates to successful, effective, and ethical leadership with an emphasis on the experiences of African Americans and other underrepresented groups in the U.S. South and attention to identities with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. For more information and the list of other positions included in this cluster hire, please visit the College of Liberal Arts website at https://libarts.olemiss.edu/cluster-hire/.

The Department of Music and the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies seek an ethnomusicologist, with an emphasis in gender and race, for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Music with a joint appointment in Gender Studies starting Fall 2022. The successful candidate must have a PhD at the time of appointment. Candidates should show promise in research, scholarship, and teaching, strong leadership capabilities, and a demonstrated commitment to working with underrepresented groups.

The appointee’s responsibilities include (1) producing cutting-edge research, scholarship, and creative achievement focused on gender, race, with a particular focus on the Black experience; (2) advancing the Master of Music in Ethnomusicology degree program; (3) teaching courses for the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies; and (4) supporting the newly established emphasis in Gender Studies in the PhD in Music Education program.

The appointee will be expected to teach ethnomusicological courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, direct dissertations, advise students, and participate in departmental initiatives. The prospective faculty member’s gender-themed courses may include students from multiple programs (such as Music, Gender Studies, African American Studies, Southern Studies, the Honors College, and Sociology). The hired faculty member’s home department will be Music. The appointee will be expected to collaborate on recruiting underrepresented groups, in alignment with the University of Mississippi’s broader diversity, inclusion, and equity goals (https://chancellor.olemiss.edu/pathways-to-equity/).

Applications should include evidence of excellent scholarship. Professional distinction and excellence with recognized accomplishments in research and teaching are required. Applications should consist of (1) a letter of application, (2) a curriculum vitae with full bibliographic citations, (3) a statement of contributions to diversity, (4) names and contact information for four references.

The University of Mississippi is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty and staff

Review of applications will begin on January 31, 2021.

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