Visiting Scholar Position

VISITING SCHOLAR / POST-DOC IN AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville seeks an energetic candidate to serve as a Visiting Scholar in Native American Studies for a nine month appointment during the 2010-2011 academic year. Primary responsibilities will be to teach courses in, and to promote, a new interdisciplinary minor in Native American Studies. The teaching load will consist of three anthropology courses in the fall semester; and in the spring semester, two political science courses and one team-taught interdisciplinary studies course. Activities to promote the program will include guest lectures, collaboration with SIUE faculty, connection with other Native American scholars in the region to create a regional consortium of Native American scholarship, and coordination of a conference in Native American Studies to be held at SIUE. PhD required; pay commensurate with experience. Applicants should send a cover letter and CV with contact information for three references to Julie Holt, Chair of Anthropology, SIUE, Edwardsville, 62026-1451. Closing date is May 15, 2010.