Job Details and Essential Duties

The School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track or tenured appointment as an assistant or associate professor to join our world-leading program in evolutionary anthropology. We seek applicants with exceptional scholarly potential for advancing our understanding of human evolutionary genetics, including human origins, migration, adaptation and variation. Specific research topic, approach, methods, and region are open, and the candidate’s program of research may be focused in deep or more recent times, including on contemporary societies. Anticipated start date is August 2025.

Specific job duties include conducting collaborative field, bioinformatic and/or laboratory research in anthropological genetics, presenting research findings in peer-reviewed scholarly outlets, seeking external research funding, teaching, training and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, providing service to the university and academy, and outreach such as providing expert advice and the public communication of science.

Information about the School can be found at http://shesc.asu.edu. The School collaborates extensively with ASU’s Institute for Human Origins (http://iho.asu.edu) and the Center for Evolution and Medicine (https://evmed.asu.edu). The candidate will have a research associate position in the Institute of Human Origins and may also be associated with the Center for Evolution and Medicine to help advance their interdisciplinary research and public outreach activities.

The College values our cultural and intellectual breadth, and continually strives to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment. We are especially interested in applicants who demonstrate strong commitment to the goals of the ASU Charter.

About the School of Human Evolution and Social Change

Known for its leadership in innovative education and research, the School of Human Evolution and Social Change includes one of the nation's top-ranked anthropology programs and the largest and most research-productive transdisciplinary anthropology faculty in the nation. Staying true to our four-field anthropological origins means we remain committed to leveraging a long-term, comparative, and holistic perspective on human origins as a way to understand and address complex problems, now and for the future, and a deep concern for community engagement and social justice. In addition to anthropology, our students can earn degrees in global health, museum studies and environmental social science. We are also known for our high-quality study abroad, field school programs and research apprenticeship opportunities for our ~1,000 undergraduate majors and ~200 graduate students.

We offer a dynamic, collegial, and challenging work environment due to the pace of innovation, complex array of research and academic programs, and high-profile initiatives. SHESC is the largest social science unit in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU's largest college. For complete information, see http://shesc.asu.edu/.

About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.

About Arizona State University

ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter, ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.

Required Qualifications:

• A PhD in Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, Human Genetics, or related field by the time of appointment.
• A proficient record of research given level of experience.
• Demonstrated ability for achieving high levels of research productivity and impact.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated evidence of success in obtaining external funding commensurate with experience.
• Experience in teaching (classroom and online), mentoring and supporting students.
• Collaborative experiences with an interdisciplinary research team.
• Capacity to cross-teach and mentor students in anthropology and other programs offered across the School such as global health or environmental social science.
• Specific expertise in ethnographic fieldwork, field or laboratory studies in human genetics, and/or bioinformatics.
• A sophisticated understanding of and commitment to challenging and disrupting harmful and unethical historical scholarly practices in evolutionary social science research.
• A demonstrated potential to meet the needs of inclusive student populations and/or reach out to multicultural communities.
• Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty, staff, students and communities to advance the principles of the ASU Charter.

The application deadline is November 3, 2024. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled. Candidates will be asked to create or use an existing Interfolio Dossier to submit the following application materials:

1. A letter of interest describing how you meet the required and desired qualifications
2. A current curriculum vitae
3. A statement of research and teaching interests and experience
4. Up-to-date contact information (including email addresses) for three (3) professional references