Job/University of Toronto: Post in Gender & Indigeneity

Requisition Title: Assistant Professor – Gender and Indigeneity – 1301805
> Job Field: Tenure Stream Faculty / Division: Faculty of Arts and Science
> Department: Women and Gender Studies Institute
> Campus: St. George (downtown Toronto)
> Job Posting: Nov 15, 2013
> Job Closing: Jan 31, 2014 Open Until Filled
> Description:
> The Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) at the University of Toronto > invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of > Assistant Professor, with a focus on Gender and Indigeneity. The start date > for the position will be July 1, 2014.
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> The successful candidate may work on Indigenous issues in a range of > settings and geographical locations and will have an ability to set this
> work within a comparative and relational framework, with an understanding of > Aboriginal/Indigenous issues in Canada strongly preferred. We are especially > interested in intersectional research that grapples with gender, race, > class, sexuality, religion and other important differences, research which > draws on or is in conversation with critical transnational, diasporic, and > post- and anti-colonial feminist scholarship. Candidates may apply from any > disciplinary or interdisciplinary background. We particularly welcome > applications from scholars with a commitment to community-based research and > to working directly with Aboriginal/Indigenous communities, and an > engagement with Indigenous methodologies, including storytelling and > arts-based methodologies.
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> Applicants will have the opportunity to work closely with, and cross-list > courses in, relevant affiliated departments, including Aboriginal Studies,
> but also African Studies, Canadian Studies, Caribbean Studies, Centre for > the Study of the U.S., East Asian Studies, and/or Latin American Studies, as > well as other departments.
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> Situated on or near the traditional territories of various First Nations, > including the Anishinabe, the Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat, faculty > at WGSI recognize the transcolonial and transnational links that extend > throughout the Americas, and elsewhere, and the Indigenous political, social > and cultural issues that have given rise to international Indigenous rights > and decolonization movements. WGSI at the University of Toronto includes > undergraduate and graduate programs, including a new Ph.D. program > (www.wgsi.utoronto.ca<http://www.wgsi.utoronto.ca>). WGSI adopts a > transnational approach to women and gender studies, an approach which speaks > both to the distinctively global character of the city of Toronto, but also > to anti- and post-colonial and transnational contexts throughout the world. > The transnational perspective explores the global processes in which women’s > and men’s lives, gender relations, gendered subjectivities and sexualities > are situated. In particular, WGSI has distinctive strengths in the following > five fields: (1) feminist anti- and post-colonial, diasporic and > transnational studies; (2) gender, sexuality and queer studies; (3) cultural > studies; (4) feminist studies of technology, science, environment and > biomedicine; and (5) transnational political economy and development > studies. WGSI is devoted to creative, conceptual and empirical research; > critical pedagogy; collaborations with a broad group of affiliated faculty; > and projects developed with a wide ranging collection of communities and > other social justice actors.
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> Applicants must have a Ph.D. by date of appointment or shortly thereafter, > with demonstrated excellence in teaching and research, and Indigenous > community engagement. Duties consist of research and teaching at > undergraduate and graduate levels. Salary will be commensurate with > experience and qualifications.
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> All qualified candidates are invited to apply. Applications should include: > a cover letter; curriculum vitae; statement outlining current and future
> research interests; one writing sample of no more than 50 pages; teaching > dossier (including course outlines, and student evaluations, as well as a > statement on teaching philosophy).

The UofT application system can accommodate up to five attachments (10 MB) > per candidate profile; please combine attachments into one or two files in > PDF/MS Word format. Submission guidelines can be found at: > http://uoft.me/how-to-apply.
Applicants should also ask three referees to e-mail letters directly to the > Director of WGSI at > bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca<mailto:bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca> by January
> 31, 2014.
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> We will begin reviewing applications on January 31, 2014, but will continue > to accept applications until the position is filled.
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> If you have questions about this position, please contact the Director of > WGSI at  bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca<mailto:bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca>.
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> For more information about WGSI please visit our website at
> www.wgsi.utoronto.ca<http://www.wgsi.utoronto.ca>.
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