Member Job Announcement: Associate Dean for Global-Local Programs & Founding Faculty Director

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Pitzer College invites applications and nominations for the faculty position of Associate Dean for Global-Local Programs and Founding Faculty Director, Institute for Global-Local Action and Study (I-GLAS).
I-GLAS is dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary curricular and research programs and activities that link the global and the local, and addressing key issues of globalization and its effects on local communities and on nations. The Associate Dean for Global-Local Programs and Founding I-GLAS Director will provide strong academic leadership and vision for I-GLAS, infusing the College curriculum with critical community-based learning, research, and action initiatives that connect the global and the local; and encouraging faculty/student global-local research projects and new courses that build on the College’s successful community engagement and study abroad programs.

He or she will also oversee the Institute’s budget, teach two courses a year related to global-local issues, and advise students. This tenure-track faculty position is open with respect to rank. The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline and have a strong record of research and teaching on global-local issues as well as extensive experience with community-based pedagogies, research, and intercultural education. In addition, he or she will have the intellectual expertise to engage with globalization as a multilayered, uneven, and contested process, complicated by race, social class, gender, sexualities, diasporas, immigration, and unequal citizenship. The Director will hold an endowed chair.

Pitzer College has a strong institutional commitment to the principles of diversity in all areas and strongly encourages candidates from underrepresented social groups. We favor candidates who contribute to the College’s distinctive educational objectives, which promote interdisciplinary perspectives, intercultural understanding, and concern with social responsibility and the ethical implications of knowledge and action. Pitzer College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. For the successful applicant with relevant interest, affiliations are possible with the intercollegiate departments of Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, and/or Women’s Studies.

To apply, send in PDF format, a letter of application, curriculum vitae, selected evidence of excellence in teaching and research, statement of teaching philosophy, statement on diversity, a description of your research, and three letters of recommendation (at least one (1) of which addresses your teaching effectiveness) via email to IGLAS_search@pitzer.edu. The deadline for applying is February 3, 2012, or until the position is filled.