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Tenure-Track position in the Department of History at Utah State University—Uintah Basin Overview The Department of History at Utah State University (USU) in Uintah Basin invites applications for a tenure-track, nine-month position at the rank of Assistant Professor in nineteenth or twentieth century United States history, with areas of expertise in Utah history, Indigenous history, religious history, environmental history, and/or history of the American West. The successful applicant will teach our lower-division surveys in American History, our History of Utah course, and upper-division courses in their area(s) of specialization. The department seeks a colleague who can show evidence of teaching excellence and research productivity. Teaching is the primary focus of this position, and the faculty member will be responsible for teaching six courses per year, including courses taught in different modalities (face-to-face, online, and connect). The anticipated start date is August 2025.The department seeks a highly motivated teacher and researcher to join a vibrant community of scholars at our Roosevelt campus.
Review of applications begins December 7, 2024, and continues until the position is filled. Responsibilities · Demonstrate excellence in teaching and effectiveness in research · Teach one or more of our lower-division U.S. surveys (HIST 1700, HIST 2700 and HIST 2710) · Contribute to the department’s lower-division, upper-division (including HIST 3850: Utah History), and graduate curricula · Produce high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship · Contribute to service in the Department, College, and University Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: · A PhD in U.S. History or related field by July 2025 (ABD will be considered at time of application if degree is completed by July 2025) · Evidence of teaching excellence · Evidence of scholarly productivity
Preferred Qualifications: · Ability to contribute to other units in the History Department, including the Public History emphasis, the Classics Program, the Religious Studies Program, or the Global Peacebuilding Certificate. Required Documents Along with the online application, please attach: 1. CV to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under “Resume/CV" 2. Two syllabi: 1) for any survey course in U.S. History, and 2) for any upper division course in indigenous, religious, environmental or regional/local history to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under “Documents 1-10" 3. The names and email addresses of three references (your references will be asked to upload a letter of recommendation if your candidacy advances to the next level). 4. A cover letter that speaks to your experience as a teacher and researcher (to be copied and pasted into a fillable field at the end of the application). The committee may request copies of course evaluations or other teaching materials if your candidacy advances to the interview stage.
**Document size may not exceed 10 MB.** Advertised Salary Commensurate with qualifications and experience, plus excellent benefits ADA Employees typically work indoors and are protected from weather and/or contaminants, but not, necessarily, occasional temperature changes. College/Department Highlights The History Department at Utah State includes dynamic teacher-scholars in History, Religious Studies, and Classics as well as undergraduate and master's level students interested in a global field of study. The faculty values high-quality research in keeping with its research mission, but it also places the highest importance on accessible and quality teaching. The department offers majors/minors in history, history teaching, and religious studies. It also offers minors in Latin, Greek, Classical Civilization, and Latin Teaching, and two masters’ program in History and Ancient Languages and Cultures. Faculty in the program are located at the main campus in Logan as well as at locations around the state as part of the university’s statewide mission. For more information on the department, see our website: http://history.usu.edu
All faculty are part of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, which plays an instrumental role in teaching critical thinking, knowledge-building skills and the ability to pose meaningful questions that advance understanding and knowledge. Students in our college confront the great questions and controversies, learn about the forces that have shaped our world, and develop the skills to tackle its most pressing challenges. Our graduates are creative problem-solvers with a passion for making a difference. The education they receive here prepares them to address the problems of today and to succeed wherever their career path takes them tomorrow. University Highlights Founded in 1888, Utah State University is Utah’s premier land-grant, public service university, with a strong commitment to excellence, access, and inclusion, empowering people to lead successful lives of involvement, innovation, and impact. Utah State provides high-quality education to 27,500-plus students locations throughout the state, including at three residential campuses, eight statewide campuses, and 23 education centers. USU Online educates students from all 50 states and 55 countries. For over 25 years, USU Extension has served and engaged Utahns in all of Utah’s counties. As an R1 research institution, Utah State is dedicated to advancing knowledge through research and scholarly activities, providing a high-quality undergraduate and graduate education at an affordable price.
Utah State is committed to cultivating a community of inclusive excellence where all perspectives, values, cultures, and identities are acknowledged, welcomed, and valued. We seek to recruit, hire, and retain people from all walks of life who will champion excellence in education, research, discovery, outreach, and service. We believe that promoting a strong sense of community and belonging empowers and engages all members of USU to thrive and be successful. Forbes recognized our commitment to employees when they named Utah State the best employer in Utah in 2023. Learn more about USU.
The university provides a Dual Career Assistance Program to support careers for partners who are also seeking employment. Additionally, USU is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. To request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, contact the university’s ADA Coordinator in the Office of Human Resources at (435) 797-0122 or hr@usu.edu.
About the Region U.S. News and World Report ranked Utah first for its strong economy, fiscal stability, education, and health care. Outstanding outdoor recreational opportunities abound throughout the state, including five national parks, 43 state parks and recreation areas, and 15 alpine ski resorts. The home of USU’s main campus, Logan, is a city of 54,000-plus people in a picturesque mountain valley 80 miles north of Salt Lake City. The Logan metro area claimed the top spot in the Milken Institute’s 2022 ranking for best-performing small cities in the nation.
*updated 04/2024 Notice of Non-discrimination In its programs and activities, including in admissions and employment, Utah State University does not discriminate or tolerate discrimination, including harassment, based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by University policy, Title IX, or any other federal, state, or local law. The following individuals have been designated to handle inquiries regarding the application of Title IX and its implementing regulations and/or USU’s non-discrimination policies:
Executive Director of the Office of Equity Matthew Pinner, discrimination@usu.edu, Distance Education Rm. 401, 435-797-1266 Title IX Coordinator Cody Carmichael, titleix@usu.edu, Distance Education Rm. 404, 435-797-1266 Mailing address: 5100 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322 For further information regarding non-discrimination, please visit https://equity.usu.edu/, or contact: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 800-421-3481, OCR@ed.gov Apply Now by following this link: https://careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/8574/assistant-professor%252c-united-states-history/job?mobile=false&width=1290&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-420&jun1offset=-360 Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West SEMINAR & ANTHOLOGY Call for Proposals · Proposal Deadline: 15 January 2025 · Seminar Date: 7-8 August 2025 North American West landscapes of mountains, forests, deserts, and rivers have served as sites for survival and work for centuries, but also as a playground. The development and growth of camping, hiking, hunting and fishing, skiing, biking, mountain and rock climbing, river-running, and other activities play key roles in attracting visitors to the region, retaining residents by driving local economies, coloring regional cultures, and shaping how many perceive the region. The viability these activities and the health of their associated outdoor spaces have faced continual challenge and change. Today, these include new technologies that are altering the forms of outdoor recreation and who participates in them, fast-growing recreation and tourism industries that dominate regional economies, increased usage and consumer demands that stress environments and those tasked with managing them, and changing climates. All this makes for uncertain futures and demands fuller historical understanding. New scholarship that acknowledges these issues along with colonial pasts, Indigenous relationships with landscapes, accessibility inequities to BIPOC and marginalized communities, survival of local communities, and other fraught issues can help better inform our present and guide our futures.
To facilitate these conversations, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University will host a fully funded 2-day seminar on August 7-8, 2025. Selected participants will write and pre-circulate chapter-length pieces (approximately 6,000-8,000 words) before gathering on the BYU campus to workshop them together. These will subsequently be revised and published as an edited collection. Redd Center Associate Director and Professor of History Brenden W. Rensink will serve as seminar organizer and volume editor. Historians Annie Coleman (Notre Dame), Phoebe Young (CU-Boulder), and others will help facilitate small- and large-group workshop sessions. Authors are encouraged to consider diverse voices and perspectives in their work. Senior and junior scholars (including graduate students) are welcomed.
Apply using this link https://tinyurl.com/outdoorrecreationhistory by January 15, 2025.
Contact Brenden W. Rensink at mailto:bwrensink@byu.edu if you have questions.
Edited volumes that have emerged from past Redd Center seminars include: · Religion in the American West, Todd M. Kerstetter and Fred E. Woods, eds. (University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming) · The North American West in the Twenty-First Century, Brenden W. Rensink, ed. (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) · Essays on American Indian and Mormon History, Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink, eds. (University of Utah Press, 2019) · Reconstruction and Mormon America, Clyde A. Milner, II and Brian Q. Cannon, eds. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019) · The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History, Jedediah S. Rogers and Matthew C. Godfrey, eds. (University of Utah Press, 2018) · Immigrants in the Far West: Historical Identities and Experiences, Jessie L. Embry and Brian Q. Cannon, eds. (University of Utah Press, 2013) · Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West, Jessie L. Embry, ed. (University of Arizona Press, 2013) · Utah in the Twentieth Century, Brian Q. Cannon and Jessie L. Embry, eds. (Utah State University Press, 2009)
Contact Information Brenden W. Rensink, Ph.D. Contact Email CFP: https://reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-center-blog/Post/cfp---outdoor-recreation-history-in-the-north Linda Hall Library - NOW Accepting applications for 2025-2026 fellowships The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in- house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural institutions. The Library offers residential fellowships to support on-site research in Kansas City, as well as virtual fellowships for scholars working remotely using resources from the Library’s digital collections. The Library is also offering several fellowships intended for specific groups of researchers, including: –The National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (9 months, postdoctoral) –The History of Science and Medicine Fellowship (1 month, doctoral) –The Pearson Fellowship in Aerospace History (Up to 2 months, postdoctoral) –The Presidential Fellowship in Bibliography (Up to 4 months, postdoctoral) All application materials are due no later than January 17, 2025. For further information, visit the Fellowships page on our website or e-mail fellowships@lindahall.org. |
Position Announcement at the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon’s Environmental Studies Program invites applications for a transdisciplinary tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of energy transitions and decarbonization. Successful candidates will have demonstrated potential to center environmental justice and/or climate justice and climate solutions in the advancement of knowledge on renewable energy and energy decarbonization in area(s) including but not limited to: policy, governance, social movements, land use, generation and storage, ecological impacts, Indigenous and energy sovereignty, economics, energy futures, energy justice, the intersections of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, militarism, and fossil fuel dependence, and the intersection of equity and climate resilience.
We encourage applications from candidates who will focus on the sociocultural, sociotechnical, and material dimensions of energy systems, who will use methodologies including but not limited to those from environmental studies and/or Indigenous, race and ethnic studies, political science, history, anthropology, economics, and sociology, who have the potential to catalyze existing University of Oregon strengths such as in environmental justice (e.g. in the programs Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Center for Environmental Futures, Just Futures Institute; Sociology; and others), energy governance (e.g. in the School of Law), solar energy and energy storage (Departments of Chemistry and Architecture), climate science (Departments of Earth Sciences and Geography), environmental planning (College of Design including in Planning Public Policy and Management and in Landscape Architecture), and/or who have the potential to position graduating students for leadership in environmental justice and climate solutions.
To build capacity in climate and environmental justice, we encourage applications from candidates who will work "alongside" rather than conduct research "about" marginalized communities, who draw from their own situated or embodied knowledge or lived experience, and who have the potential to develop research and teaching that engages perspectives beyond dominant hegemonic frameworks. Candidates may center interdisciplinary formations, epistemologies, or ontologies from historically excluded groups including but not limited to: Black, Pasifika, Native American, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and other Indigenous and Latinx communities who are at the leading-edge of climate research and activism, from the multi-national United States, refugee and/or diasporic communities.
Program Summary
The Environmental Studies Program is part of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon, an Association of American Universities member and tier-one research institution in the Pacific Northwest that is ranked “highest research activity” by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The Environmental Studies Program offers a doctoral degree program in Environmental Sciences, Studies, and Policies, a Master of Environmental Studies, and undergraduate degree programs in Environmental Studies and Environmental Science. Faculty in the Environmental Studies program teach research-informed introductory and subject area courses that include faculty and students from across the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, the School of Law, the College of Design, the School of Journalism and Communication, and the College of Education.
About the University
The main campus of the University of Oregon is in Eugene, Oregon, a socially-progressive, bike-friendly, and family-friendly city with ambitious goals for carbon emissions reduction and for community well-being. The University of Oregon has an active Native American Student Union centered at the Many Nations Longhouse.
Land Acknowledgement: The University of Oregon is located within the traditional homelands of the Southern Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855, the Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon.
Minimum Requirements
- Ph.D. or terminal degree in an applicable field.
Demonstrated potential to carry out research and teaching on topics in renewable energy and energy decarbonization, as broadly defined.
Scholarship and/or teaching that demonstrates potential to build institutional capacity in the areas of environmental and/or climate justice.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstration of research methods that deliberately embrace relational principles and ethical/reciprocal collaborations.
Demonstrated potential to use transdisciplinary research methods to develop a robust research program for advancement of knowledge in the area of energy transitions and decarbonization for environmental and climate justice and solutions.
Demonstrated potential to deliver research-informed teaching in introductory and subject-area courses in environmental and climate justice and/or topics in energy futures.
Demonstrated potential to advise doctoral and masters students in research frameworks and areas of expertise that are beyond dominant hegemonies, that center interdisciplinary formations from historically-excluded epistemologies/ontologies, and/or that are currently underrepresented in the program.
Demonstrated awareness of inequities and challenges faced by underrepresented minority students and faculty and track record (commensurate to career stage) of activities that reduce barriers in education or research for students and faculty from historically underrepresented groups.
Required Application Materials
Applicants are invited to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and three statements that are each 2 pages maximum: (1) a research statement that describes the candidate’s area of inquiry, methodology, and research relationships and/or collaborations; (2) a teaching statement; and (3) a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statement that describes the candidate’s understanding of and potential for participating in remedying past inequities and exclusions in the area of inquiry and in mentorship, research, and teaching.
Applicants are also asked to list 3 references who will be contacted in the case a candidate is shortlisted. At that point, shortlist candidates will also have the option of submitting a letter of endorsement from a community collaborator, if applicable
Application Deadline
December 1, 2024
Please submit your application at: https://careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job/533953?lApplicationSubSourceID=
Tenure-track position at Idaho State University
The Department of History at Idaho State University invites applications for a tenure-track position in the History of the American West at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning in August 2025. Preference will be given to candidates who work in environmental history. Candidates should be able to teach broadly in their area of expertise, with the ability to teach survey courses in U.S. history in multiple delivery formats.
Please submit CV/resume, cover letter, and list of three (3) professional references, including current contact information here:
https://isu.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/5/home/requisition/2341?c=isu
Priority review begins November 1, 2024.
