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Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Vanderbilt University
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Posted: 23-Jun-25
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Type: Full Time
Required Education:
Doctorate
The Vanderbilt University Department of Anthropology invites applications for Research Assistant Professor (continuing track), with a specialization in digital archaeology, archaeological collections management, and archaeological laboratory methods. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of executing field- and laboratory-based archaeological projects with significant digital components, expertise in collections management, and an active research program. The position includes a mix of collections curation and compliance management, laboratory management, research, and teaching. Holistic and innovative perspectives and methodologies are encouraged, especially in thematic clusters related to space, place, and landscape, and advanced digital registry of sites, landscapes, and material culture, with preference for individuals working in Latin America as part of a portfolio of extramurally funded research. The teaching duties for this position are not fixed (to be negotiated) but should include courses related to the thematic and methodological areas identified above. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of excellence in teaching, with an emphasis on experiential learning that combines theory, ethics, and the ability to contribute to a collaborative academic community.
The College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University is a highly selective liberal arts college at the heart of a major research university. It seeks to attract a student body of high promise and ability from throughout the United States and the international community. Its mission is to engage in significant and innovative research, scholarship, and creative expression in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, to offer distinguished, well-taught programs of undergraduate and graduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, and to foster service to society overall. Vanderbilt University ranks in the top 15 National Universities and is in the heart of Music City, Nashville, TN, which is consistently rated as an exciting and affordable place to live (https://www.vanderbilt.edu/nashville/).
Ph.D. in Anthropology or related field, in hand by the start of employment. Applicants should submit: (a) a cover letter, addressed to Dr. Steven Wernke, chair of the Department of Anthropology, (b) full curriculum vitae, including contact information for three recommenders, and (c) evidence of teaching effectiveness, including course evaluations, if available. Submit these materials directly to Interfolio.
Humanity has perhaps never been as simultaneously connected and fragmented as it is today. We need anthropology now more than ever to navigate our understanding and appreciation of both human diversity and commonality. Anthropology embraces all of humanity in all of its complexity as its subject. In doing so, anthropology de-centers the self to consider other ways of being in the world, giving us novel perspectives and insights.
Anthropology invites all to consider how so much of what we may take for granted as “natural” is in fact contingent on culture, history, and the social context of the moment. In doing so, it provides tools for thinking through the most vexing challenges facing us today. It is not for the faint of heart. Anthropology will change your mind.
Leveraging anthropology’s unique breadth and depth of perspective on the human condition, our students learn about the full history and experience of people around the world. In archaeology courses, our students learn about humanity long before writing, about the coalescence and dissolution of complex societies in the past, and about how humans and things interact to produce social formations through time. In our cul...tural anthropology course offerings, students learn about perennial topics at the core of social life: how “community” is produced; how society impacts climate (and vice versa); how language mediates social relations (and vice versa); how seemingly “natural” categories such as “race” get constructed and deployed in discourse; the experiences of contemporary Indigenous cultures around the world; the experiences of Latinx immigrants in the US; comparative perspectices on gender and cultural politics; and many other topics of vital importance today. In our biological anthropology courses, our students learn about how inequality can biologically inhere in the body; about health and society in the past; about death and the body; and about forensic anthropology, forensic science, and human rights. Our courses appeal to diverse interests also because they draw from humanistic, scientific, and social scientific approaches. We invite you to accept the challenge of anthropology to change your mind—and our world— for the better.
