Mount Holyoke College
Posted: August 24, 2009
Description:
Mount Holyoke College’s new Department of Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies invites applications for a position as an Assistant or Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies to begin July 1, 2010. The Department currently offers majors in Spanish and Latin American Studies and, benefiting from the Five-College consortium, intends to implement a Latina/o Studies major and minor. This position will support one of the new Department’s missions, to study the past, current state, and emerging conditions of Caribbean and Latin American heritage populations within the United States. Candidates must have sufficient administrative and leadership experience to assume primary responsibility for the initial planning and on-going promotion of Latina/o Studies within the Department and wider campus.
We seek candidates with a strong, interdisciplinary scholarly profile in the Humanities or Social Sciences able and willing to establish connections between the two. Excellence in teaching and a strong commitment to the advancement of the Department’s ties to the local Latino communities are indispensable. The ability to conduct courses in Spanish, though not required, is desirable.
Deadline:
September 28, 2009
Minimum Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
Documents Required:
Please submit a letter of application, CV, three letters of reference, and sample publications/chapters.
Contact Information:
lat-search@mtholyoke.edu
Additional Information:
Mount Holyoke is an undergraduate liberal arts college for women with 2,100 students and 210 faculty. Half the faculty are women; one fourth are persons of color. It is located about 80 miles west of Boston in the Connecticut River valley, and is a member of the Five College Consortium consisting of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts. Mount Holyoke is committed to fostering multicultural diversity and awareness in its faculty, staff, and student body and is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and persons of color are especially encouraged to apply.