Fwd: Two Positions: History of Consciousness UC/Santa Cruz

[Aaron Gerow]

Begin forwarded message:
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> *Please feel free to post widely. Application closing date:  
> November 17, 2008
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> The Department of History of Consciousness at the University of  
> California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for senior, tenured,  
> full-time faculty members beginning July 1, 2009.  *
>            We seek candidates with an international research  
> reputation based on innovative work that invites connections across  
> disciplinary divides.  Scholars coming from different disciplines,  
> inter-disciplines, and other configurations of investigation and  
> teaching are welcome in History of Consciousness. Questions about  
> subjectivities, cultures, sexualities, ethnicities, histories,  
> religions, and politics are all invited, as are deep ties between  
> scholarship and other kinds of engagement in the world.  Film and  
> visual cultural studies, psychoanalysis, semiotics, social  
> structural investigations, historical studies, ethnography, science  
> and technology studies, literary studies, and poetics are all  
> crucial to the History of Consciousness.  Regardless of  
> disciplinary background, candidates should have a comprehensive  
> knowledge in the bodies of thought and practice relevant to their  
> questions. We are interested in the ability to work in a range of  
> languages, especially non-European languages. We seek mature,  
> versatile scholars, who are committed to both theoretical and  
> empirical questions and whose strengths extend, challenge, and  
> engage with the diverse research cultures that characterize the  
> department's faculty and graduate students.  The successful  
> candidate will be expected to make a sustained and active  
> contribution to the department's research output, exercise  
> leadership in departmental development and administration, advise  
> and mentor graduate students across disciplinary differences,  
> assist in the development and management of the PhD program, and  
> engage creatively in the department's graduate and undergraduate  
> teaching.
> The History of Consciousness Department is in the Division of  
> Humanities, which also includes the Departments of American  
> Studies, Feminist Studies, History, Language Program, Linguistics,  
> Literature, Philosophy, and the Writing Program.  The Division has  
> a strong tradition of collaborative and interdisciplinary work, and  
> we especially encourage applications from strongly qualified  
> candidates eager to extend their teaching and research activities  
> across departmental and disciplinary boundaries.  The campus is  
> especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the  
> diversity and excellence of the academic community through their  
> research, teaching and/or service.
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> *RANK:* upper Associate Professor through senior Professor
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> *SALARY*: commensurate with qualifications and experience.
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> *MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:*  Applicant must have a Ph.D. or foreign  
> equivalent in a field that contributes to the mission of the  
> History of Consciousness Department.  The successful candidate must  
> present strong evidence of interdisciplinary research activity;  
> university teaching experience, preferably at both undergraduate  
> and graduate levels, including doctoral dissertation supervision;  
> and effective work to build and support academic programs.**
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> *POSITION AVAILABLE:*  July 1, 2009
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> *TO APPLY:*  Please provide the following:
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> 1)  Letter of application, including a discussion of past, current,  
> and planned research; approaches to teaching graduate and  
> undergraduate students; and approaches to program development
> 2)  Curriculum vitae
> 3)  Representative publications, including one or two recent essays  
> or chapters
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> 4)  Names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers  
> of three referees whom we may contact for letters of  
> recommendation. (All letters will be treated as confidential  
> documents; please refer to UCSC's confidentiality statement at  
> http://www2.ucsc.edu/ahr/policies/confstm.htm.)
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> Applicants are encouraged to submit a statement addressing their  
> contribution to diversity through research, teaching, and/or service.
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> These materials should be sent to:
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> Senior Search Committee
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> Care of Professor Donna Haraway
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> Department of History of Consciousness
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> HUM 1, Room 415
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> University of California
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> 1156 High Street
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> Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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> *CLOSING DATE: *
> The position will remain open until filled, but in order to be  
> considered at initial screening the complete application (including  
> supporting documents) must be postmarked by the closing date of  
> November 17, 2008.
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