NOTICE OF VACANCY
Assistant Professor (Modern Japanese History)
History
College of Liberal Arts
Search# 5238
SALARY: $52,000 annually
POSITION BEGINS: 16 August 2010
DESCRIPTION: Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in modern Japanese history. The Department of History at Washington State University in Pullman seeks to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in modern Japanese history beginning August 2010. Ph.D. in History, Japanese Studies or a related field is required at the time of employment. The normal teaching load is two courses per semester, and it includes up to one course per year in the university’s general education program in World Civilizations.
QUALIFICATIONS: The department welcomes applications from historians in any area of specialization who can demonstrate research relevance to Japan’s place in the broader global context and strong potential for excellence in scholarship. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the department’s graduate program and the interdisciplinary undergraduate Asia Program. Preference is given to candidates with demonstrated teaching ability and an established record of scholarship.
The Department of History, which has twenty-five full-time faculty members, 300 undergraduate majors in History and Social Studies, and approximately 50 graduate students, offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. It cooperates with the College of Education in training teachers of History and Social Studies, and it participates in the interdisciplinary Asia Program. It also houses the university’s core undergraduate course in World Civilizations, which offers approximately thirty sections of the two-part course each semester. Primary fields of graduate study in history include: American, early and modern European, modern East Asian, Latin American, environmental, public, women’s, and world history.
LOCATION: WSU, a member of the Pacific 10 conference, is a doctoral/research/extensive land-grant university with an enrollment of 18,700 students on the Pullman campus and approximately 4,000 students at its urban campuses located in Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Vancouver. There are ten colleges and a graduate school. WSU offers approximately 245 major fields of study. Bachelor’s degrees are available in all fields of study, with master’s and doctoral degrees available in most. The University is one of the largest residential universities in the West; Pullman offers a friendly, small-town living environment.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Application deadline is November 23, 2009, and review will begin immediately after the deadline. Applications, which include a letter of application, resume, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation, should be sent to Noriko Kawamura, Chair, Modern Japanese History Search Committee, Department of History, WSU, P.O. Box 644030, Pullman, WA 99164-4030. Questions and application materials can be sent electronically to
pthorsten@wsu.edu.
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WSU is committed to excellence through diversity, has faculty friendly policies including a partner accommodation program, and a NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant (see http://www.excelinse.wsu.edu/).
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