Employment Opportunities

TEACHING ASSISTANTS AND READERS

Outside (non-Anthropology) Graduate Students who are interested in employment (teaching assistant or reader) with the Department of Anthropology are required to submit an application, C.V., and unofficial transcript to the Graduate Program Coordinator.  Outside graduate students will not be considered for employment unless an application is on-file with required documents.  Employment is contingent on the availability of positions which vary per quarter.

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Prospective Applications and Accepted Students to the Department of Anthropology Graduate Program do not need to complete this form.  Accepted students are automatically considered for employment opportunities.


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PALEOANTHROPOLOGY
The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in PALEOANTHROPOLOGY.  Information regarding requirements and application submission can be found here:
Assistant Professor:  Paleoanthropology

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PRIMATOLOGY
The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in PRIMATOLOGY.  Information regarding requirements and application submission can be found here:
Assistant Professor:  Primatology

Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow

“Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues About the Reconstitution of Worlds”

The Anthropology Department at UC Davis will appoint an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Fellow will be involved in the scholarly activities of the Sawyer Seminar, “Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues About the Reconstitution of Worlds” that will unfold during that academic year.

The seminar has as its goal to convene an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars to discuss the innovative possibilities, for scholarship and politics, that might emerge at the crossroads of two major processes-- indigenous social movements and the conceptual production generated by ethnographic studies of science and technology. While taking place in radically different social contexts and geographical regions, currently these two processes offer seemingly coincidental conceptual-political proposals: they interrogate the nature-culture divide in a manner that, if addressed and made public, could have far reaching implications as they question a number of correlated divides: mind‐body, subject‐object, representer‐represented, historical-ahistorical, among others. While these concepts continue to carry historical and political import, the epistemic critique leveled jointly by indigenous and scholarly claims also renders them insufficient to grasp events that (as we can acknowledge after such critique) occur outside the purview of the divide between nature and culture that organizes hegemonic knowledge.

The fellow will help organize and participate in seminar events (including workshops, public lectures and reading groups) and design and teach a one quarter-long/ten weeks introductory undergraduate course on the topic. The appointment will be from August 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. Stipend is $50,000.

Eligibility: Candidates must have earned the doctoral degree no earlier than January 2009 and no later than July 2012.

We welcome applicants from anthropology, geography, cultural studies, environmental studies, history, critical law, literature, philosophy, sociology, science and technology studies, and various interdisciplinary combinations. We seek creativity and encourage applications by scholars working on the themes of conceptual relevance to the seminar. Topics may include: politics and state/non-state formations, cultures of history, law and property, political ecologies/economies/ontologies, death and life, new materialisms, embodiment and nature-culture assemblages. A focus on indigeneity is preferred but not exclusive.

There is no citizenship requirement or restriction for this fellowship. Non-U.S. nationals are welcome to apply.

Application Materials: Letters of application and supporting material should include the following: 1) A two-page cover letter stating your interest in the Postdoctoral Fellowship providing details on your current research and how it would benefit from and contribute to the Sawyer Seminar; 2) A curriculum vitae; 3) Two letters of reference; 4) One writing sample (30 pages maximum). 5) A brief course proposal for a one-semester course that would introduce undergraduate students to the topic.

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Deadline is February 5, 2012. Applications will only be accepted online at:  http://anthro.facultysearch.ucdavis.edu.

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UC Davis is an AA/EO employer and encourages applications from women and minority candidates.