Assistant/Associate Professor of Native/Indigenous Art and Design History
Tenure-Track Appointment
School of Art and Design History and Theory
Parsons School of Design
Start date: July 1, 2024
Parsons School of Design, a college of The New School, acknowledges the ancestral and traditional territories of The Lenape People on which our faculty, staff and students work, learn, and create. We recognize that New York City has the largest urban Indigenous population in the United States.
Parsons is committed to cultivating curricula grounded in social, racial, gender, disability, and climate justice. As fundamental to this process, we are launching multiple full-time faculty positions in Indigenous knowledges and practices. This initiative endeavors to begin readdressing the underrepresentation of Indigenous knowledges and practices at Parsons. We invite applications from candidates whose work centers ways of understanding and practicing art, design, and strategy that honors the original stewards, artists, makers, and designers on Turtle Island.
As part of this cluster search, we invite candidates for a tenure-track position as Assistant or Associate Professor of Native / Indigenous Art and Design History in the School of Art and Design History and Theory. This appointment will begin July 1, 2024.
The School of Art and Design History and Theory (ADHT) invites applications from scholars whose research engages with the art, design, and material/visual cultures of Native/Indigenous peoples in North America spanning historical periods (including the contemporary era). Candidates should have expertise in a range of innovative, interdisciplinary, and decolonial methodologies that engage with Indigenous knowledge systems as they relate to artistic, cultural, designerly, material, and performative practices. Ideally, candidates will evidence a deep commitment to community involvement and Indigenous lived experiences, and will be able to demonstrate the ways in which this informs their research, scholarship, teaching, professional or creative practice.
Faculty in ADHT are expected to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as within Parsons's First Year Program. Given ADHT's position within an art and design school, we are also interested in candidates whose work bridges history and theory with art and design practices.
The position will be expected to provide support to the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum that is a core requirement for all Parsons students, as well as ADHT'S BFA in Design History and Practice, and minors offered by ADHT. The faculty will also contribute to the connections among the school's two graduate degree programs in Fashion Studies and in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies (the latter in collaboration with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum). They will also contribute to the development of cross-college curriculum between Parsons, the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the New School for Social Research (NSSR), the School of Public Engagement, and Parsons Paris. The faculty member will be expected to be an active part of a leadership team to implement curricular and academic policies, and must contribute to maintaining an educationally diverse and creative community in all its activities and programs.
The New School is strongly committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and particularly seeks applications from members of underrepresented groups, as well as candidates who share this commitment.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The work of this faculty member is divided between (1) teaching, (2) scholarship or professional/creative practice, and (3) university service. The standard teaching load is five coursesor the equivalentper academic year. Within their field of expertise, the faculty member will be expected to teach undergraduate, including First Year, as well as graduate courses, to majors and non-majors. They will hold regular office hours, and participate in extracurricular teaching activities such as critiques, review panels, thesis supervision, independent study, and advising. University service includes program, Parsons, and New School assignments on committees and task forces, and as program directors or associate directors with a reduced teaching load in graduate and undergraduate programs, including the undergraduate First Year. All faculty are expected to be engaged with scholarship or professional/creative practice at a level commensurate with their faculty rank.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A completed PhD in Native American and/or Indigenous Studies, Art History, American Studies, Design History, Design Studies, History, Material Culture, Visual Studies, or a related field. Candidates who do not hold a doctorate but can demonstrate strong equivalencies will be considered.

• Active/current professional practice or creative/critical scholarship that demonstrates significant creative and professional achievement.
• Two years teaching at college, university, community-based, and/or secondary education level with evidence of engagement with course and syllabus development/planning.
• Candidates seeking a position at Associate level must demonstrate equivalent teaching, research/practice experience, service and successful completion of academic review.
• Strong interest in working collaboratively across Parsons and the University.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team, as a collaborator or lead.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, including the ability to meet deadlines, communicate and motivate effectively.
• Evidence of a commitment to educational equity in teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
• Evidence of cross-cultural communication skills in teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
• Evidence of demonstrated interest in building/ability to mentor and support students from diverse backgrounds, to develop and nurture the individual student's abilities, and a strong commitment to progressive education. This evidence can be in a candidate's teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.

WORK MODALITY
On-Campus Position: Faculty are expected to work on-campus due to the nature of the work in accordance with the University policies as set forth in the Full-Time Faculty Handbook. #LI-Onsite
SALARY RANGE
Assistant Professor: $75,000 - $90,000 per annum
Associate Professor: $87,000 - $102,000 per annum
Priority Application Deadline: February 29, 2024
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS
To apply, please submit:

• A current CV.
• A cover letter: 1-2 pages summarizing experiences as related to the requirements of this job description.
• A teaching statement: 1-2 pages describing artistic/design/research practice and teaching philosophy. Please include in the statement an articulation of your approach to inclusive pedagogy and demonstrated evidence of commitment to equity, inclusion and social justice.
• 1 sample syllabus with assignments.
• The names and contact information for three professional and/or community references.

Longlisted candidates will be asked to provide:

• A writing sample (PDF, 50 pages max.)

Please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/academics for a full list of programs.
We look forward to receiving your application!