[Air-L] Tenure track position at UC Irvine, Black Thriving Initiative

[Tom Boellstorff]

Dear all: please share this exciting tenure-track opportunity in the Department of Anthropology at UC Irvine with anyone who might be interested! The basic information is below: full details at https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07292. All the best, Tom Boellstorff

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The Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured Assistant/Associate Professor position in Black Studies. Geographic area and thematic research foci are open. We especially welcome applications from scholars whose research provides critical perspectives on racism, white supremacy, and racial capitalism by deploying intersectional Black theories and methodologies, such as, but not limited to, Black ecologies, Black queer and feminist theory, Black radicalism, embodiment, Black geographies, abolition, decolonization, Black liberation, African diaspora, and global Blackness.

The position is made possible by the UCI Black Thriving Initiative (BTI) Faculty Cluster Hiring Program, an effort to recruit cohorts of faculty across the campus who interrogate anti-blackness as an existential threat to the health and welfare of communities worldwide. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in BTI-sponsored collaborative multidisciplinary programs with their cohort of fellow hires as part of the Environmental Health Disparities cluster. This cluster will advance public and community engagement regarding environmental racism and health stressors that have historically and actively worked against Black well-being (see: https://sites.uci.edu/cehdr/jobs/ <https://sites.uci.edu/cehdr/jobs/>).

We seek applicants whose research and teaching focus on areas that include, but are not limited to:
• Health ecologies (for instance: medical racism, reproductive justice, health disparities, genomics, environmental stress, or health systems)
• Ecologies and environments (for instance: environmental justice, climate impacts, toxicities, degradation, built environments, urbanisms, outer space, and multispecies studies) 
• Indigenous studies (for instance: lifeworlds, land, heritage studies, dispossession, governance, and settler colonialism) 
• Geographies and economies (for instance: food geographies, plantation economies, racialized space, diasporic politics, migration, labor, material culture).

 



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