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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Labor History in the Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History - ILR School

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The Department invites applications for an open rank tenure-track faculty position in U.S. labor and working-class history to begin August 2023. We are interested in social and political historians whose scholarship engages questions of work, inequality, the economy, or political and working-class culture. We are particularly interested in scholars whose research focuses on the experiences of different ethnic and racial groups of workers. This may involve workers' experiences in their jobs, organizations, and/or communities, or how their labor intersects with questions of citizenship, class, race/ethnicity, disability, and gender and sexuality, among other possible areas of inquiry. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in scholarly research and teaching.

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