University of Illinois, Chicago: Race & Critical Disability

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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois,
Chicago is seeking candidates for a tenure-track position as an Assistant
Professor in the area of Race and Critical Disability beginning Fall
2015.  This hire is part of a multi-unit cluster initiative on “The
Racialized Body” focusing on the ways that contemporary and historical notions
of race, racial ideology, and racial politics are manifested in how “the body”
is (re)presented, inhabited, and regulated.  For the position in Race and
Critical Disability, we seek scholars whose research examines the intersections
of race, ethnicity, and disability.  We invite applications from scholars
whose work addresses any or multiple of the following areas: 1) institutionalized
forms of violence in relation to both racialized and disabled bodies; 2)
disability justice movements and their engagement of race; 3) social
construction(s) of raced/disabled bodies; 4) race, disability, and citizenship;
5) social causes of differential distribution of disability across populations
in the US;6) race, disability, and embodiment; and 7) intersections of
critical race, queer, and crip theories.  We welcome candidates with
interdisciplinary and comparative projects that focus on the body in or outside
the U.S. context.  Departmental home at UIC is open to a range of
possibilities including Sociology, Anthropology, English, History, and/or one
of the interdisciplinary units such as African American Studies, Latin American
and Latino Studies, Asian American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies and
Disability and Human Development.   Scholars who adopt an
intersectional perspective will be strongly considered as will candidates whose
work attempts to (re)imagine a sociology of disability.  Applicants are
expected to have a Ph.D. at the time of appointment.


UIC is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research Extensive University located in the
heart of one of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas.  It is a
comprehensive public university with a diverse student body of more than 25,000
undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.


Questions about the position can be directed to either Prof. Rod Ferguson
[e-mail] or Prof. Cynthia Blair [e-mail], co-chairs of the search
committee.


Applicants should go to jobs.uic.edu
(position number 46358) and complete the online application including the names
and email addresses of 3 references. Application should include: 1) a cover
letter that should address research and teaching interests; 2) curriculum
vitae; 3) writing sample.  The final authorization for this position is
subject to availability of state funding. Complete applications received by
November 7, 2014 will be given fullest consideration, however, earlier
application submissions are encouraged.



The University of Illinois at Chicago is an affirmative action/equal
opportunity employer, dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse
pluralistc faculty and staff committed to teaching in a multicultural
environment.  We strongly encourage applications from women, minorities,
individuals with disabilities and covered veterans.