Career Center

The Department of History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences in the Division of Liberal Arts at Rhode Island School of Design invites applications for a full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to commence fall 2024. Rank will be dependent on experience.

RISD recognizes principles of social equity, inclusion, and diversity as fundamental to its academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require ongoing attention to differential embodied experience and expansion of the forms of knowledge from which our curricula originate. RISD is engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value applicants whose pedagogical and professional experiences have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We seek applicants whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) attends to embodied difference as intersectional and centers on bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. We particularly encourage applicants who can help advance the institution's social equity, inclusion, and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and long standing, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, and first-generation college students.

We are seeking a teacher-scholar whose work speaks to the philosophical complexities of life in the 21st century. Area of specialization is open. However, the Department of History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences would especially welcome applicants whose teaching and research interests would invigorate art and design practices, including: 1) aesthetics and philosophy of art, 2) ethics of technology (including AI), 3) the environment, and/or human/nonhuman issues, 4) queer and/or feminist philosophies, 5) Non-Western or Indigenous philosophies (particularly a focus on areas of the Global South), and/or 6) philosophical issues relating to social justice.