UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
DEPARTMENT OF LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES

Full or Associate Professor, Political Economy

The Latin American and Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for a position in Political Economy, at the Full or Associate Professor (tenured) level. The position is open with respect to substantive focus. We seek candidates whose research focuses on political economy from an interdisciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on how economic structures
enable and constrain different pathways of change in Latin America and/or for Latinos/as in the United States. The candidate’s work should demonstrate expertise in transnational approaches. We are open as to scale of analysis—local, regional, national, hemispheric, or global—and encourage applicants who demonstrate an emphasis on urban-regional studies and/or natural resource policy challenges. Preference will be given to candidates qualifying for the rank of Full Professor.

While we are open to the specific issues that the successful candidate would focus on in his/her research, we seek to hire a political economy professor whose approach will fit the department’s four substantive themes: cultural flows/cultural politics, collective action/social movements, social inequalities, or transnational migration.

The Department of Latin American and Latino Studies has a strong tradition of collaborative and interdisciplinary work, and we especially encourage applications from strongly qualified candidates eager to extend their teaching and research activities across departmental and disciplinary boundaries.

We seek scholars with significant teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including doctoral supervision, and with evidence of a developed research trajectory and successful history of extramural funding. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute administrative service to the department and campus.

The successful candidate must be able to work with students, faculty and staff from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds. We are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community and we encourage both domestic and international

RANK: Full or Associate Professor

SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in Social Science or Humanities field, or other related field. Demonstrated record of research and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels; record of publication, extramural funding, and administrative service.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Proficiency in Spanish, Portuguese or an indigenous language in the Americas. Demonstrated excellence in research and publication, successful extramural funding record and proven distinction in university teaching and administrative service.

POSITION AVAILABLE: July 1, 2014, with academic year beginning September 2014. Position contingent upon final budgetary approval.

TO APPLY: Applications are accepted via the UCSC Academic Recruit online system, and must include Curriculum Vitae, Letter of Application, three selected publications, research statement, pedagogy statement, three confidential letters of reference*, and teaching evaluations. Applicants are invited to
submit a statement addressing their contributions to diversity through research, teaching, and/or service. Documents/materials must be submitted as PDF files.

Apply at https://recruit.ucsc.edu/apply/JPF00035

Refer to Position #JPF00035-14 in all correspondence.

*All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. For any reference letter provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service, career center), direct the author to UCSC’s confidentiality statement at https://apo.ucsc.edu/confstm.htm

CLOSING DATE: Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2013.

To ensure full consideration, applications should be complete and letters of recommendation received by this date. The position will remain open until filled, but not later than 6/30/2014.

UC Santa Cruz faculty make significant contributions to the body of research that has earned the University of California the ranking as the foremost public higher education institution in the world. In the process, our faculty demonstrate that cuttingedge research, excellent teaching and outstanding service are mutually supportive.

The University of California, Santa Cruz is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, committed to excellence through diversity. We strive to establish a climate that welcomes, celebrates, and promotes respect for the contributions of all students and employees.

Inquiries regarding the University’s equal employment opportunity policies may be directed to: Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064; (831) 459-2686. Under Federal law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally able to work in the United States as established by providing documents as specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Certain UCSC positions funded by federal contracts or subcontracts require the selected candidate to pass an E-Verify check. More information is available here or from the Academic

Personnel Office (APO) at (831) 459-4300.

As of January, 1, 2014, UCSC will be a smoke & tobacco-free campus.

If you need accommodation due to a disability, please contact the Academic Personnel Office at ude.cscuobfsctd-7317b7@opa (831) 459-4300.

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ENDOWED CHAIR IN THE STUDY OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION AND CIVIL RESISTANCE

The University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications and nominations for a visionary scholar of distinction to serve as the inaugural holder of the Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance, a new faculty position focused on the scientific study of nonviolent direct action and civil resistance.

 

Nonviolent direct action refers to strategies and activities designed to achieve social and political change without the use of violence.  Examples of nonviolent direct action include collective organizing, social movements, protests, sit-ins, vigils, consciousness raising, and other forms of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance.  Proponents of nonviolent direct action recognize the need for active struggle to foster social and political change and use nonviolent approaches as alternatives to passive acceptance of oppression and inequality, or the use of violent confrontation, to achieve social and political goals.  The activities of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. (and others like them) provide good examples of the kinds of nonviolent direct action on which the chairholder should focus his/her scientific work.

 

The chairholder will provide national/international leadership to the study of this critical topic.

 

The chairholder may be from any discipline, but her/his research methodology must be scientific and focused on large-scale social phenomena

 

The appointment will be at the full or associate professor level.  The departmental home(s) of the appointee will be determined based on the successful candidate’s scholarly expertise.  The position will begin as soon as a qualified candidate has been found.

 

The candidate is expected to become an integral member of the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and should be interested in interdisciplinary collaboration, scholarship, and training of graduate students on issues involving peace, conflicts of interest, nonviolent direct action, and civil resistance.  The Psychology of Peace and Violence Program adds to scientific knowledge of how to resolve conflict between
groups, promotes reconciliation, and builds peace through cooperation (www.umass.edu/peacepsychology).

 

Beyond her/his primary affiliation with the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program, the chairholder will find many other supportive colleagues here at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) and within the wider region.  For example, at UMass Amherst, the chairholder may affiliate with the Development and Peacebuilding Program of the Political Economy Research Institute, the Social Inequality and Justice Initiative of the Center for Public

 

Policy and Administration, the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, the Feinberg Papers Project, and/or the W.E.B. Du Bois Center (It is a university-wide research center that is administratively housed in the Du Bois Library and organized around our holding the Du Bois Papers).

 

QUALIFICATIONS: a Ph.D. and a proven record as a scholar of the scientific study of peace, non-violent direct action, and civil resistance as well as exceptional promise to serve as a national/international leader in advancing this study at UMass Amherst and beyond are required; a proven record of inclusive and multi-cultural skills in teaching, research, and/or service is strongly preferred.

 

RANK AND SALARY: Commensurate with experience and qualifications.

 

NOMINATIONS AND APPLICATIONS: Review of applications will begin on September 17, 2013 but the committee will continue to accept applications until the position has been  filled.  Applications comprising a cover letter expressing interest and describing research program, a vitae and a list of at least three references should be sent to:

 

Kelly Smiaroski at ude.ssamu.tsovorpobfsctd-800bb3@iksoraimsk or

Kelly Smiaroski, Office of the Provost, 373 Whitmore
Administration Building, University of Massachusetts, 181 President’s Avenue, Amherst, MA  01003-9313.

 

Electronic submissions strongly preferred.

 

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.  It is strongly committed to increasing the diversity of faculty, students, and curriculum, and particularly encourages applications from women and minorities.