Part-Time Faculty - Special Education, Fall 2025

About the position

The Geography-Anthropology Department at the University of Southern Maine is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Anthropology for our Fall 2023 Semester. We seek a broadly trained anthropologist with an academic specialty in Native American Studies. Academic research areas could include archaeology, biological anthropology, or cultural anthropology; areas of specialization may include environment, land use, cultural heritage management, ethnobotany, indigenous methodologies and epistemologies, traditional ecological knowledge, material culture, political systems, policy and governance, colonization, and intercultural relations. We seek candidates with a demonstrated record of authentic engagement with Native American communities. The University of Southern Maine's Geography-Anthropology Department is an interdisciplinary program that emphasizes the integration of the two disciplines and the common interests in examining the relationship between human populations and their natural and built environments. The program offers specializations in three areas: Sustainable Cultures and Communities; Cultural and Natural Heritage Management; and Applied Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geospatial Analysis. We offer a curriculum that engages students in critical thinking and real-world problem solving and students are involved in qualitative and quantitative data collection in the field and analysis in our labs. The results include student publications, student conference presentations, and research and cartographic contributions to faculty publications.

Responsibilities

• Undergraduate teaching of three classes per semester
• Advising of students
• Maintaining an active program of research and other scholarly activity
• Engaging in university and professional service
• Teaching introductory levels courses in archaeology, cultural anthropology and/or biological anthropology
• Developing new courses as part of the candidate's area of expertise and student demand

Requirements

• Earned doctorate in Anthropology or closely related discipline at the time of appointment
• Demonstrated effective teaching
• Effective written and oral communication skills

Nice-to-haves

• Multilingual applicants

Benefits

• Holidays, vacation and sick time
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short and long term disability insurance
• Tuition waiver program for employee and eligible dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan