NOTICE OF VACANCY
Instructor, World Civilizations
History
Colleg of Liberal Arts
Search# 5239
DESCRIPTION: Non-tenure track Instructor in World Civilizations. Washington State University is seeking to fill three three-year instructorships to teach the university’s core undergraduate World Civilizations survey beginning August, 2010. Candidates will be expected to teach a 4/4 load, one prep per semester.
QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate must have three years of experience teaching World Civilizations at the university or AP high school level, or have graduate training in global/comparative methodologies or world history perspectives. Candidates may have training in any relevant humanities or social science discipline. Ph.D. at time of appointment is preferred.
The Department of History, which has twenty-six 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. degrees in that interdisciplinary area. 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 review begins 15 February 2010. Applications should be sent to Heather Streets, Director of World Civilizations, Department of History, Washington State University, P.O. Box 644030, Pullman, WA 99164-4030. They should include a letter of application, resume, a one-page teaching statement, sample syllabi, and three letters of recommendation.
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. Members of ethnic minorities, women, special disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam-era, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans, persons of disability and/or persons age 40 and over are encouraged to apply.
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/).
WSU employs only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized non-U.S. citizens. All new employees must show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Washington State University is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact Human Resource Services: 509-335-4521(v), Washington State TDD Relay Service: Voice Callers: 1-800-833-6384; TDD Callers: 1-800-833-6388, 509-335-1259(f), or hrs@wsu.edu.
