Job Abstract

Position (s): The Department of History is recruiting for a Visiting Assistant Professor in African History.

Starting Date: The first day of Fall quarter is September 23, 2024

Salary: Based on 100% annual salary of $74,600. Approximately $12,433 per course (pending final budget approval). Appointment is eligible for renewal depending on need, funding and performance.

*** All appointments are contingent upon the appointee being able to provide, in accord with Federal law, evidence of authorization to work in the United States ***

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:
PhD in History, or a related discipline

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience teaching African History at the college or university level.

Duties: The successful candidate will teach six courses over three terms, one of which will be at the graduate level. Duties will also consist of advising graduate and undergraduate students in African History, as well as service to the department of History.

Courses of instruction:

HIST 30, Themes and Personalities;
HIST 137, Themes and Topics in African history: West African History to 1800; Ancient Africa; African from 1000 to 1880
HIST 138, African Cities in Modern History
HIST 218, The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Application Procedure:
Applicants will be required to submit: a cover letter, CV, writing sample, a statement of research and teaching interests, 2-3 teaching evaluations, diversity statement and 3 letters of reference.

Confidential Letters solicited via AP Recruit System Only – Applicant inserts reference names and solicits references from within APRecruit at time of application. Only completed applications that include the letters of reference may be reviewed by the committee.

Applications and materials will be submitted using UCR’s online application system located at [http://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF01938].

Applicants who use Interfolio may utilize a feature provided by the Interfolio Service to allow Interfolio to upload their letters directly into AP Recruit. Applicants can input an Interfolio-generated email address in place of their letter writer's email address. Interfolio refers to this as Online Application Deliveries. The following link on the Interfolio website shows how to set this up (http://help.interfolio.com/entries/24062742-Uploading-Letters-to-an-Online- Application-System).

To ensure full consideration, applications and supporting material should be received by July 24, 2024.

Department Contact person: Marilyn Madrigal, Marilyn.madrigal@ucr.edu.

PhD in History, or a related discipline

Experience teaching African History at the college or university level.
UCR is a world-class research University with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification.

• 3-5 letters of reference required

The University of California, Riverside is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. UCR is a member institution of the American Association of Universities (AAU) as well as the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU). Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status.

For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy please visit: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-035.pdf.

For the University of California’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, State, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.