18 faculty liberal arts anthropology jobs found in New York, NY

New York University: NYU - NY: Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS): Anthropology Department Location New York Open Date Aug 10, 2022 Description New York University The Department of Anthropology at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Biological Anthropology at the level of Assistant Professor. The appointment will begin September 1, 2023, subject to administrative and budgetary approval. We seek a scholar who combines work with human or nonhuman primates with components of the “omics,” broadly defined. The ideal candidate will combine laboratory work in areas such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, with long-term field research on primates or collaborative work with descendant communities. Potential areas of research interest include, but are not limited to: the genomic architecture of phenotypic variation and adaptation to the environment; the genomics of population biology,...

New York University: NYU - NY: Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS): Anthropology Department Location New York, NY Open Date Aug 12, 2022 Description The Department of Anthropology at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Medical Anthropology at the level of Assistant Professor. The appointment will begin September 1, 2023, subject to administrative and budgetary approval. We seek candidates whose research programs and intellectual trajectories explore multi-scalar questions related but not limited to health, illness, care, the body, biotechnologies, health systems and their reform through critical engagement with cultural, historical, political-economic, juridical, and ecological perspectives. The ideal candidate will have a developed interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research agenda with analytic attention to race, gender, disability, and other forms of difference related to emergent debates in medical anthropology. Geographic...

Description The Department of Anthropology at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Biological Anthropology at the level of Assistant Professor. The appointment will begin September 1, 2023, subject to administrative and budgetary approval. Please note that this position is in addition to our recently advertised search in biological anthropology in the area of the omics. We seek a multidisciplinary scholar who combines long-term fieldwork on nonhuman primate behavior, ecology, and evolution, with laboratory work, which may involve genetics, genomics, and/or other laboratory measures such as analyses of physiology, immunology, or stable isotopes. The candidate will join the department’s highly regarded Center for the Study of Human Origins. The diversity of our workforce is at the core of our innovation and creativity and strengthens our research and teaching excellence. New York University strives to embody the...

Description The Division of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) invites applications in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. We welcome applications in any sub-field of the discipline but we are keen to make an appointment in Environmental Anthropology (understood broadly to include not only the climate crisis, the anthropocenic turn, and multi-species research but also the study of energies and infrastructures). The position is a non-tenure track, and open rank appointment (Clinical Assistant/Associate/Full Professor). The course load is 2/2. We seek candidates with innovative and active research profiles whose work is open to inter- and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate that their work intersects with the region broadly conceived. Successful applicants will join a small but engaged and forward-looking group of anthropologists and will be able to contribute to both undergraduate and graduate...

Description The Department of Anthropology at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Medical Anthropology at the level of Assistant Professor. The appointment will begin September 1, 2023, subject to administrative and budgetary approval. We seek candidates whose research programs and intellectual trajectories explore multi-scalar questions related but not limited to health, illness, care, the body, biotechnologies, health systems and their reform through critical engagement with cultural, historical, political-economic, juridical, and ecological perspectives. The ideal candidate will have a developed interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research agenda with analytic attention to race, gender, disability, and other forms of difference related to emergent debates in medical anthropology. Geographic and cultural foci are open. The diversity of our workforce is at the core of our innovation and creativity and strengthens our...

Description New York University The Department of Anthropology at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Biological Anthropology at the level of Assistant Professor. The appointment will begin September 1, 2023, subject to administrative and budgetary approval. We seek a scholar who combines work with human or nonhuman primates with components of the “omics,” broadly defined. The ideal candidate will combine laboratory work in areas such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, with long-term field research on primates or collaborative work with descendant communities. Potential areas of research interest include, but are not limited to: the genomic architecture of phenotypic variation and adaptation to the environment; the genomics of population biology, evolution, hybridization, and introgression; the influence of the social and physical environmental on biological phenotypes, including at the...

The Department of Anthropology at Princeton University invites applications for a Postdoctoral or more senior research associateship in biocultural anthropology to begin on or about August 1, 2023. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2023. This project will take place both at Princeton and at the Rising Star Cave system site in South Africa.  The Postdoctoral Fellow will be supervised by Professor Agustín Fuentes (Princeton) in collaboration with Professors Lee Berger (University of Witwatersrand), and Jonathan Hawks (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and be in interaction with the larger group of researchers in the multinational research project: Concepts in Dynamic Assemblages: Cultural Evolution and the Human Way of Being.  The larger project to which the post-doc is attached seeks to develop a biocultural, cognitive framework with a focus on Concepts in the areas of skill, technology, and social life that connects theory and methods in cultural...

The Department of Anthropology at Princeton University invites applications for three Postdoctoral or more senior research associateships in biocultural and sociocultural anthropology to begin on or about August 1, 2023 and end May 31, 2025. The deadline is 03/01/2023. The Postdoctoral Fellows will work directly with Professors Agustín Fuentes, Jeff Himpele, and Carolyn Rouse and the larger group of researchers in the multinational research project: Concepts in Dynamic Assemblages: Cultural Evolution and the Human Way of Being.  The project develops a biocultural, cognitive framework with a focus on Concepts in the areas of skill, technology, and social life that connects theory and methods in cultural evolution with anthropological theory, cognitive approaches, and ethnographic research. The goal is to better understand cultural processes and how particular patterns of the development and embodiment of Concepts structure human capacities and transform evolutionary...

The Department of Anthropology at Princeton University invites applications for a Postdoctoral or more senior research associateship in biocultural anthropology to begin on or about August 1, 2023. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2023. This project will take place both at Princeton and at the Rising Star Cave system site in South Africa.  The Postdoctoral Fellow will be supervised by Professor Agustín Fuentes (Princeton) in collaboration with Professors Lee Berger (University of Witwatersrand), and Jonathan Hawks (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and be in interaction with the larger group of researchers in the multinational research project: Concepts in Dynamic Assemblages: Cultural Evolution and the Human Way of Being.  The larger project to which the post-doc is attached seeks to develop a biocultural, cognitive framework with a focus on Concepts in the areas of skill, technology, and social life that connects theory and methods in cultural...

The Department of Anthropology at Princeton University may have occasional openings for lecturers to teach precepts for undergraduate courses during the 2022-2023 academic year. These courses may focus on areas of introduction to anthropology, visual anthropology, ethnography, history of anthropology, and psychological anthropology.   Serving in a preceptor capacity requires leading weekly discussions, attending course lectures, meeting with the course instructor(s), holding regular office hours, and grading student exams and papers.  Appointment duty time will depend upon student enrollment, and positions may begin in the fall 2022, or spring 2023, semester depending on the needs of the department. Essential Qualifications: Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in Anthropology preferred Prior teaching experience at the college or university level preferred To apply, please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching evaluations if available,...

Description New York University's Department of Russian and Slavic Studies seeks to hire a Ukraine specialist for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professorship starting in fall 2023, pending budgetary and administrative approval. Discipline is open: the appointment will be half in Russian and Slavic Studies and half in another department appropriate to the candidate's field. Possibilities include but are not limited to history, literature, film, anthropology, political science, visual culture, media, sociology, and gender studies. Pay is competitive. Teaching load 2 courses per semester. In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary for this position is $60,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational...

Description Liberal Studies at New York University is seeking part-time instructors to teach in the Arts and Cultures Core sequence beginning in Spring 2023.  The Liberal Studies Core is a dynamic liberal arts curriculum that provides a global and interdisciplinary foundation for nearly 100 NYU majors. The curriculum uses conceptual and spatial frameworks to trace intellectual and cultural currents through the study of texts, works of art, and political and social structures from early antiquity to the present. Small, seminar-style classes ensure the benefits of a liberal arts college within a large urban research university.  The Arts and Cultures curricular sequence investigates literary, musical, visual, and performing arts from prehistory to modernity. In each course, instructors teach methods of close reading of various types of artistic texts and the practice of interdisciplinary modes of analysis. Students are encouraged to consider channels of...

Description Liberal Studies at New York University is seeking part-time instructors to teach Arts and Cultures of Modernity in AY 2022-23.  Successful candidates will be contacted on an as-needed basis to fill section openings in the Liberal Studies Core, if and when such openings arise. The Liberal Studies Core is a dynamic liberal arts curriculum that provides a global and interdisciplinary foundation for nearly 100 NYU majors. The curriculum emphasizes conceptual and spatial frameworks to trace the movement of ideas and the interconnectivity of material culture, through the study of different texts, histories, exchanges, structures and systems, languages, arts, and writing from early antiquity through contemporary times. Small seminar-style classes and close faculty-student interaction ensure the benefits of a liberal arts college within a large urban research university. We are especially interested in hiring qualified candidates who can contribute to the...

The Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities is seeking postdoctoral research associates or more senior applications and/or associate professional specialists or more senior professional specialists for the 2023-24 academic year. The Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities is an interdisciplinary program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that combines the efforts of a diverse group of faculty, programs, and schools to develop a dynamic understanding of urban issues past, present, and future. Its theme, Cities on the Edge, encompass several interrelated concepts, including the juncture of built/natural environmental studies, center/periphery, hemispheric comparatives, migration, New Jersey urbanism, social justice, the humanities as a force of change, and the margin as a place of radical possibility. Additional information about the Princeton-Mellon's themes and program may be found at...

The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs invites applications for a postdoctoral or more senior research associate position from individuals with a Ph.D. degree or who expect to receive a Ph.D. degree by September 1, 2023, for the 2023-2024 academic year. These awards are designed to promote basic research in the broad areas of international and comparative political economy, international organization and global governance, and globalization. Research on the causes and consequences of globalization, the political economy of foreign trade, monetary and regulatory policies, the sources of international cooperation at the global and regional level, the domestic and international politics of economic development, the political economy of human security issues, the evolution and impact of international institutions, and the politics of international law and human rights policies are of relevance....

The Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University seeks distinguished candidates for a full professorship in American Jewish Studies. The successful candidate may work on any scholarly area that engages with Jewish life in the United States. The time period and field of specialization are open, but the search will prioritize scholars who can enhance the strengths of the Effron Center for the Study of America, an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and integrated hub of teaching and scholarship. We encourage candidates from anthropology, art and archaeology, film and media studies, gender & sexuality studies, history, politics, religion, sociology, and comparative race and ethnicity, and transnational approaches to American Studies, among other fields. Successful candidates will have a demonstrated history of success or the potential for success in interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching and a commitment to teaching and publishing in American Jewish...