What are the responsibilities and job description for the Anthropology Professor position at New College of Florida?
New College of Florida is searching for a tenure-track Assistant or early Associate Professor of Anthropology (with a maximum of 3 years of credit toward tenure) beginning in Fall 2025. We seek a broadly trained cultural anthropologist with a research specialization in environmental anthropology.
Potential research areas include, but are not limited to, cultural ecology; biodiversity conservation and local knowledge; natural disasters and responses; human-environment interactions; resource extraction and management. Geographic focus is open. We encourage applicants with experience in community-based, collaborative, or participatory action research. The candidate should be able to contribute to the interdisciplinary programs at New College.
Candidates must demonstrate a record of teaching excellence and an active research program. The successful candidate will teach an introductory cultural anthropology course, an upper-level ethnographic methods course, and a history of anthropological theory course, as well as courses in their area of specialization. A Ph.D. is required at the time of appointment.
The Anthropology program at New College offers courses in four subfields: cultural, archaeology, biological, and linguistic anthropology, with a strong emphasis on student research and community engagement. Graduates from the program have pursued distinguished careers, including positions as tenured professors at institutions such as University of California San Francisco, Stanford, and Oxford.
The Anthropology program at New College includes two dedicated facilities. The Hal C. Ball Anthropology Laboratory, a one-room seminar building, houses an impressive 2,000-volume library focused on Mesoamerican anthropology. It also contains hominid and primate skull replicas, historic slide collections, an oral history archive, an editing suite, and two computer workstations. The New College Public Archaeology Lab supports student learning in archaeological methods and techniques, with a commitment to the ethical advancement of knowledge about regional heritage. This lab is equipped for field research and features over 1,600 square feet of workspace for processing and interpreting artifacts, an office for archaeological site reports and geographic information systems, and storage space for excavated finds.
Candidates should submit a cover letter, CV, one sample syllabus for an introductory cultural anthropology course, one writing sample (published or unpublished), and the names and contact information of three references. In the cover letter, please address the following questions:
1. How do you perceive your role as an educator and scholar at a national liberal arts college like New College?
2. Describe your current and future research.
3. Provide examples and/or vision of how you approach collaborative work with colleagues and students.
4. Describe your teaching experience and pedagogy, and include one or two course descriptions of classes you plan to teach at New College.
Further materials may be requested following the initial review. The teaching load at New College is 2/2, along with tutorials, a January independent study period, and participation on thesis sponsorships and honors thesis committees.
With support from faculty sponsors, students plan their academic programs through a series of semester contracts and receive narrative evaluations instead of grades. Completion of a senior thesis is a graduation requirement at New College.
Potential research areas include, but are not limited to, cultural ecology; biodiversity conservation and local knowledge; natural disasters and responses; human-environment interactions; resource extraction and management. Geographic focus is open. We encourage applicants with experience in community-based, collaborative, or participatory action research. The candidate should be able to contribute to the interdisciplinary programs at New College.
Candidates must demonstrate a record of teaching excellence and an active research program. The successful candidate will teach an introductory cultural anthropology course, an upper-level ethnographic methods course, and a history of anthropological theory course, as well as courses in their area of specialization. A Ph.D. is required at the time of appointment.
The Anthropology program at New College offers courses in four subfields: cultural, archaeology, biological, and linguistic anthropology, with a strong emphasis on student research and community engagement. Graduates from the program have pursued distinguished careers, including positions as tenured professors at institutions such as University of California San Francisco, Stanford, and Oxford.
The Anthropology program at New College includes two dedicated facilities. The Hal C. Ball Anthropology Laboratory, a one-room seminar building, houses an impressive 2,000-volume library focused on Mesoamerican anthropology. It also contains hominid and primate skull replicas, historic slide collections, an oral history archive, an editing suite, and two computer workstations. The New College Public Archaeology Lab supports student learning in archaeological methods and techniques, with a commitment to the ethical advancement of knowledge about regional heritage. This lab is equipped for field research and features over 1,600 square feet of workspace for processing and interpreting artifacts, an office for archaeological site reports and geographic information systems, and storage space for excavated finds.
Candidates should submit a cover letter, CV, one sample syllabus for an introductory cultural anthropology course, one writing sample (published or unpublished), and the names and contact information of three references. In the cover letter, please address the following questions:
1. How do you perceive your role as an educator and scholar at a national liberal arts college like New College?
2. Describe your current and future research.
3. Provide examples and/or vision of how you approach collaborative work with colleagues and students.
4. Describe your teaching experience and pedagogy, and include one or two course descriptions of classes you plan to teach at New College.
Further materials may be requested following the initial review. The teaching load at New College is 2/2, along with tutorials, a January independent study period, and participation on thesis sponsorships and honors thesis committees.
With support from faculty sponsors, students plan their academic programs through a series of semester contracts and receive narrative evaluations instead of grades. Completion of a senior thesis is a graduation requirement at New College.
