Assistant Professor - Visual Culture
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- The University of Nebraska–Lincoln
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- Lincoln, NE
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Assistant Professor - Visual Culture
Department:School of Art, Art History & Design-1030
Requisition Number:F_240168
Posting Open Date:10/24/2024
Application Review Date: (To ensure consideration, please submit all application materials before review date):01/02/2025
Open Until Filled:Yes
Description of Work:The School of Art, Art History & Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in any area or region of art and visual culture between c. 700 and 1750, to begin on August 18, 2025. The ideal candidate will be an innovative teacher-scholar with expertise in the global dimensions of this era – including, but not limited to, the global Middle Ages, global early modernities, and histories of colonial encounters – and will join an innovative academic unit of thinkers and makers, including art, design, and emerging media arts practitioners. We welcome candidates who take transnational, cross-cultural, and/or interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching and who bring novel and inclusive perspectives to their work. This tenure-track position carries a 2/2 teaching load, and the University and College offers competitive grant opportunities for faculty research projects.
The selection committee will consider specialists in the art, design, performance, media, visual culture, or material culture in any region of the world. Since the candidate will play a role in initiating a new major in Visual Cultures & Public Practices, an interest in teaching a liberal-arts-based public practice course, whether in digital humanities, public humanities, cultural heritage, site-specific arts research, community arts programming, or other areas is desirable. In conjunction with helping to envision, co-create, and steward a program based in the liberal arts tradition that provides students with practical experience, the candidate will have the option to develop experiential learning opportunities, including study away or abroad.
The ideal candidate will have strategies to bring their knowledge and research interests alive for our 380+ art, design, and art history majors as well as for minors and non-majors. This position will teach courses to the whole of campus, including in our ACE (general education) sequence, and to STEM learners and all students across the Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts. An interest in histories of ceramics, design, and in bridging disciplines through visual communication, is particularly attractive for our expanding programs in these areas.
About the School
The School of Art, Art History & Design is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) with highly regarded and nationally ranked undergraduate and graduate fine arts programs. Being part of a leading land-grant research university offers our students learning opportunities across the humanities and sciences. The diversity of our educational programs, with their international activities, provides extraordinary historical and cultural engagement. Our students work closely with nationally and internationally recognized faculty to advance knowledge and culture.
The School of Art, Art History & Design is part of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts that, through its endowment, funds a visiting artists and scholars lecture series, scholarships, student and faculty travel, and research/creative activity.
Lincoln, Nebraska is more than a quintessential college community. The University is situated in a dynamic downtown area that includes the state capital and a growing tech industry as well as restaurants, coffee houses, movie theaters, clubs, bike trails, and urban residences. Lincoln has notably excellent public schools, a low cost of living, and has been nationally recognized for its high quality of life. It is a friendly, creative, intellectual, and vibrant community that loves the arts and is home to the Lied Center for Performing Arts, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the International Quilt Museum, the Nebraska State Museum with collections including anthropology, botany, and zoology, and the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, an art house cinema that is part of the College, as well as numerous alternative spaces and venues for visual art and music.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Teach surveys, intermediate courses, and advanced seminars in Art History and Visual Studies in their field of study, which will occupy a specified period from c.700 to 1750.
- Develop curriculum and programs in collaboration with the School faculty and interdisciplinary approaches.
- Develop and maintain a teaching, research, and service practice consistent with the position. Standard faculty apportionment in the School of Art, Art History & Design is 45% teaching, 45% research/creative activity, and 10% service.
- Serve on graduate committees, including MFA committees in fine arts.
- Serve on faculty committees for the department, college, and university.
As an EO/AA employer, the University of Nebraska considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and/or political affiliation. See https://equity.unl.edu/notice-nondiscrimination/.Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in art history, visual studies, performance studies, or a related field by the start of the position and have experience teaching at the college level.
- Knowledge of global, transnational, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching and inclusive perspectives to the study of art and visual culture from c. 700 to 1750.
- Interest in program and curriculum development.
- Excellent writing and communication skills.
- Three (3) years of successful university-level teaching experience beyond the graduate teaching assistantship.
- A nationally established and active record of professional research in art and visual culture from c. 700 to 1750.
- Experience teaching and developing interdisciplinary courses.
- Experience with online course development and digital pedagogy.
- Experience in a field such as digital humanities, public humanities, cultural heritage, community arts programming, or site-specific arts research.
Lincoln, NE
Criminal History Background Check Required:No
How to Apply:Click “Apply for this Job” and complete the faculty information form. Attach the following required documents:
- Cover letter addressing your qualifications.
- Curriculum vitae.
- The names and contact information of three (3) professional references.
- Both a research statement and a teaching statement that are each 1-2 pages in length. Combine the statements into a single document and attach as “Other Document.”
Shelby Foged
shelby.foged@unl.edu
Faculty Tenure/Tenure Leading
Job Type:Full-Time
Position funded by grant or other form of temporary funding?:No
Planned Hire Date:08/18/2025
Organizational Location:Default Location
Organization
Working at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
For 150 Years, A Leader in Higher Education
Always a place of high ambition, University of Nebraska was one of the first institutions west of the Mississippi River to award doctoral degrees - the first was granted in 1896. The University of Nebraska established the world's first undergraduate psychology laboratory. The discipline of ecology was born here, and the campuses reflect that tradition, being recognized as botanical gardens and arboreta. An early institutional interest in literature and the arts provided the foundations for today's Prairie Schooner literary magazine, for the University of Nebraska Press, and for the Sheldon Museum of Art, which houses one of the world's most significant collections of 20th century American art.
Today, Nebraska is one of the nation's leading teaching institutions, and a research leader with a wide array of grant-funded projects aimed at broadening knowledge in the sciences and humanities. Nebraska is also a land-grant university and a member of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Benefits
The University of Nebraska offers an extensive benefits package that includes health, life, disability and long term care insurance; retirement accounts; tuition reimbursement for employees and their spouses and dependent children; and reimbursement accounts for health care and dependent day care. Leave policies are designed to help employees deal with personal or family events or crises.
Diversity and Inclusion
In the spirit of the phrase "Every Interaction Matters", UNL has an enacted commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence for our faculty, staff, and students. On our campus, diversity and inclusion are important priorities. Examples include: Husker Dialogues, which is an event that helps first-year students focus on diversity and inclusion and practice handling difficult conversations around difference; three Chancellor's Diversity Commissions that are charged with informing and advising the Chancellor and addressing issues of constituent campus communities; and the establishment of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion whose leader operates at the Vice Chancellor level. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, we strive for excellence in all that we do. True excellence requires that each individual be able to work and learn in an atmosphere of respect, dignity, and belonging. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion requires each of us to continuously ensure our interactions are respectful, protect free speech, and inspire academic freedom.
About Lincoln
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is located in an up-and-coming and safe city of 300,000 people that has many of the cultural and entertainment benefits of a much larger city, with the feel of a friendly Midwestern community. The Pinnacle Bank Arena, opened in 2013, routinely hosts major touring acts. A buzzing entertainment district, the Railyard, connects the arena area to the Historic Haymarket. Cuisines from all continents provide the entree to dynamic urban nightlife and a wide variety of ways to enjoy time with friends. Nebraska's City Campus is one with Lincoln's city center, as it has been since the university was founded.Lincoln has more parkland per capita than Austin, Texas; Portland, Oregon; and all but a handful of U.S. cities. The well-manicured Pioneers Park, the native woods of Wilderness Park and the open grassland of Nine-Mile Prairie are each within a 10-minute trip from campus. Connecting many of these parks is an extensive trails network.
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