Career Center

Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the area of global and/or post-colonial legality. The college is committed to cultivating an inclusive and critically engaging educational environment. Nearly one-quarter of Amherst’s students are Pell Grant recipients; close to half of our students are domestic students of color. The successful candidate will demonstrate competence and sensitivity in working in a department in which students are broadly diverse in matters of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, and religion.  We seek a colleague who has the scholarly expertise to understand the legal theories, practices, and histo