Full-Time Lecturer in Integrated Social Sciences

Position Overview

School / Campus / College: College of Arts and Sciences

Organization: Integrated Social Sciences

Title: Full-Time Lecturer in Integrated Social Sciences

Position Details

Position Description

The online Integrated Social Sciences Program (ISS) at the University of Washington invites applications for two non-tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Lecturer Full-Time, beginning in Autumn 2020 (100% FTE, 9-month appointment).  University of Washington lecturers are faculty who engage in teaching and service.  Lecturers are eligible for renewable multi-year appointments, promotion, and paid professional leave, among other benefits available to full-time UW faculty members, but are not eligible for tenure.  The selected candidate will be expected to perform online instruction, apply interdisciplinary approaches in the social sciences, exhibit innovation in teaching and collaborative pedagogy, and work effectively with adult learners.  

ISS is an online degree completion program that awards a BA degree from the College of Arts and Sciences.  The rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum gives students broad training in Social Science theory and methods and provides hands on experience developing research portfolios.  The program is dedicated to improving access to higher education and to promoting diversity, inclusion, and multicultural competence in an educational environment.  Program faculty include both University of Washington faculty with primary responsibilities to other academic programs and dedicated ISS faculty.  All faculty are expected to contribute to the program’s mission of inclusion.  More information about the program and its curriculum can be found here:  https://www.socialsciencesonline.uw.edu/

Full time lecturers in the ISS program typically teach 6 courses per year, primarily in required core courses, and support students in development of an e-portfolio project.  The interdisciplinary core courses teach foundational skills in social science theory and research methods.  In addition to the core courses, ISS lecturers have opportunity to teach at least at least one thematic or topical course per year.  Lecturers are currently teaching courses that have already been designed by other faculty, but may also have opportunities to revise or develop their own courses when funding is available.  The formal academic appointments of ISS lecturers are within partner departments in the Social Sciences Division of Arts and Sciences.  

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have Ph.D. or foreign equivalent, or be ABD in a social sciences discipline or program that provides training in social sciences theory and methods.  Ph.D. or foreign equivalent must be completed at time of appointment.  Candidates should have university teaching experience.  We seek candidates from all social science disciplines, and welcome applicants with scholarship in one of the following areas:  post-colonial studies; indigenous studies; migration and diaspora, critical race theory; gender, women, and sexuality studies; environmental and economic inequality, or similar discipline.

Instructions

Applicants should submit the following materials:
•    Letter of Interest: Describes academic training and preparation for the position.
•    Teaching Statement:  Describes approach to teaching, past teaching experience and evidence of success, and interest in teaching in an interdisciplinary online degree completion program.  
•    Diversity Statement:  Describes how your teaching, service and/or scholarship has supported the success of students from racial, ethnic, and gender backgrounds that are underrepresented in your academic field.  
•    Curriculum Vitae
•    Three (3) Letters of Recommendation
For more information about ISS please e-mail the program co-directors and search committee chairs, Professor Deborah Porter (debzport@uw.edu) and Mel Wensel (wensel@uw.edu).  Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2020.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed,
religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information,
gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.