The Department of Religion at Rice University invites applications for an Assistant Professor (TT) in African Diasporic Religious Thought and Traditions. This new colleague will help improve the linkages between African Religious Studies and African American Religious Studies by filling historical, geographical, and theoretical gaps in our research and course offerings. Mindful of the expansive nature of the African Diasporic context, focuses on geographic area and religious tradition(s) are open, though applicants should be prepared to teach courses that reflect cultural and social diversity as well as methods in the study of religion that enhance the department?s attention to Houston?s location as a gateway city to the Americas. The department is interested in applicants with substant