Tenure Track Position, Early Modern Art in a Global Perspective, Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in History of Early Modern European Art in a Global Perspective (ca. 1400-1750).
Sarah Lawrence College seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in History of Early Modern European Art in a Global Perspective (ca. 1400-1750). Sarah Lawrence seeks scholars who decenter the canon by situating European art and architecture within histories of global trade networks, colonialism, enslavement, expansion, and empire, engaging discourses of the Global Mediterranean, and/or the Transpacific and Transatlantic Worlds.
The candidate will offer a secondary teaching field in African, Asian, Pre-Columbian or Colonial Latin American Art, bringing geographical breadth and depth to the position. The selection committee seeks a scholar who will introduce students to art historical tools, closely considering objects and artifacts in collections in the New York area to tell new stories about form, affect, and materiality, and/or to interrupt canonical narratives of art history.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will connect and collaborate across disciplines at the college to foster student engagement around interdisciplinary issues such as global trade networks, migration, colonization, and histories of globalization. The candidate will also adopt innovative methodological and pedagogical approaches, to offer introductory surveys as well as focused seminars. Sarah Lawrence students enrolled in seminars also engage in substantial research projects developed directly with faculty.
The faculty seeks a colleague who is committed to mentoring and teaching students, especially those who are underrepresented in the academy, and who can think creatively and ambitiously about new directions for the Art History curriculum at Sarah Lawrence.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Art or Architectural History, or Visual/Material Culture and should have received their PhD by Fall 2025.
How to apply
Applications should include:
- cover letter;
- curriculum vitae;
- statement of teaching philosophy, including consideration of pedagogical and curricular inclusivity;
- two sample syllabi;
- course descriptions for three courses that the candidate might offer at Sarah Lawrence, including one outside the Early Modern European field;
- a brief sample of academic writing;
- and three letters of recommendation.
The committee encourages candidates to learn more about the philosophy of education and pedagogical approach that makes Sarah Lawrence distinctive and to indicate both in their cover letters and syllabi how they might envision working in this format.
The position will remain open until filled; review of applications will begin on September 30, 2024. Compensation listed for this position is for a full-time tenure-track faculty position and will be contingent on teaching experience. Salary: $70,000 to $85,000