Job Details and Essential Duties

The School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Global Health to teach and conduct research in SHESC’s global health programs. The position is under the supervision of Dr. Roseanne Schuster, lead for the MS in Global Health degree program. The postdoctoral research scholar will contribute to the instructional mission of SHESC through teaching in the undergraduate and master’s global health programs (50%) and conducting research related to instruction in global health and the scholar’s own research agenda (50%).

The successful applicant will work with a dynamic global health faculty who launched the first global health undergraduate degree and continues to cultivate one of the largest global health training programs in the country. The postdoctoral research scholar will be expected to teach two existing online courses in each of the fall and spring semesters and, in the summer semester, teach an existing course and contribute to the development of a new online course. The postdoctoral research scholar will collaborate with global health faculty to conduct research related to the instruction of global health programs, particularly master’s programs, including but not limited to how the structures of applied experiences (e.g., internships) impact student career readiness and associated outcomes. The postdoctoral research scholar will publish the results of this research in scholarly venues. Research duties may include organizing and implementing research plans, leading primary data collection and data analysis, preparing manuscripts for publication in journals; supervising undergraduate or graduate student interns; presenting and attending conferences and seminars, and other duties as assigned.

The Global Health faculty and all of SHESC value our cultural and intellectual breadth, and continually strive to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment. We are especially interested in applicants who demonstrate strong commitment to the goals of the ASU Charter in their research and teaching approaches.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• This position will contribute to the teaching mission of SHESC’s undergraduate and graduate global health programs in consultation with the faculty mentor and the SHESC Director. This will include teaching online courses that have already been developed and collaborating with faculty on the design and development of new courses.
• This position will advance SHESC’s leadership in global health instruction through trans-disciplinary research on educational and career-related outcomes of the MS program. This will include publishing findings in peer-reviewed journals and advancing innovative and important scholarship on the science of teaching and learning.

This is an in-person, full-time, fiscal-year, term-limited 1-year position. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2025 but may be earlier or later. The fiscal year (12-month) salary for this position is $61,008 along with competitive benefits through ASU including health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays. The appointment may be renewable for an additional year pending sufficient funding and successful execution of the teaching and research goals. The Postdoctoral research scholar should be in residence in the greater-Phoenix metropolitan area during the appointment, to benefit from engagement with the global health and interdisciplinary SHESC faculty and training opportunities available on the ASU campuses.

About the Online Master of Science in Global Health

The MS in Global Health program prepares the global health workforce with training in the social sciences, particularly attentive to how culture shapes health, including challenges and solutions, and skill development in the global health interprofessional competencies valued in the field. Our program and graduates are focused on achieving health equity for everyone, everywhere. Our curriculum is grounded in evolutionary anthropology and includes content areas such as health policy, epidemiology, evaluation, maternal and child health, One Health, nutrition, and more. Our master’s students bring a wealth of professional and lived experiences and have an equally varied and wide-ranging set of career goals and trajectories.

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 (or terminal degree) in Global Health, Anthropology, Epidemiology, or a related social sciences or health sciences field at the time of appointment, received within the past four years.
• Evidence of commitment to teaching and mentoring of students in global health and related fields and working with community partners in applied health settings.
• Demonstrated experience in qualitative OR quantitative research, inclusive of conceptualization, data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
• Demonstrated interest in research related to pedagogy, instructional outcomes, student success, career outcomes, or similar.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in teaching and/or mentoring students, including online learning, in classroom, laboratory, or field settings.
• Demonstrated evidence of mixed methods research experience, inclusive of study conceptualization, data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills as evidenced by varied dissemination approaches for academic and non-academic audiences (e.g., social or public media, presentations, briefs, reports, journal articles).
• Experience conducting research related to pedagogy, instructional outcomes, student success, and/or career outcomes.
• Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty, staff, students and communities to advance the principles of the ASU’s Charter.

The application deadline is February 2, 2025. 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 your research interests and how you meet the required and desired qualifications
2. A current curriculum vitae
3. One-page statement of teaching philosophy
4. Up-to-date contact information (including email addresses) for three (3) professional references.

General questions about this position may be directed to the search committee chair Dr. Rhian Stotts at rstotts@asu.edu.