The Department of History at Occidental College invites applications for a tenure‐track Assistant Professor in history. The first year of this appointment is as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with a significantly reduced teaching load and the following year the position converts to assistant professor, tenure-track.

The History Department at Occidental College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in the Mediterranean World, 600 to 1500 C.E. Successful candidates will situate early modern Mediterranean history in a global context, and depending on the specific candidate might contribute to a range of fields such as North African, Trans-Saharan, and/or European studies, as well as Medieval and/or Renaissance studies. The candidate’s work must engage issues of race, ethnicity, and/or social justice, and whose background, expertise, and experiences will contribute to diversifying Occidental’s faculty. Preference will be given to candidates whose research addresses cross-cultural contact, economic exchange and political economy, empire and urbanism, or religious cooperation and conflict." Candidates with interest in or experience with digital humanities and/or public history are also encouraged to apply.

Candidates are expected to teach introductory courses as well as upper-level courses in their areas of specialization. Candidates are also expected to teach in Occidental’s First-Year Seminar Program.  In addition to providing necessary temporal and geographical coverage, this hire comes at a critical time for the department as we seek to restructure our curriculum in line with the Occidental Promise’s focus on high-impact, immersive courses with a community-based learning component.

This search is part of Occidental’s new multi-year Mellon Faculty Diversity Initiative (MFDI). The initiative aligns with the College’s Equity and Justice agenda by enabling us to hire a cluster of Arts and Humanities faculty whose work focuses on race, and whose background, expertise, and experiences will contribute to diversifying Occidental’s faculty. The successful candidate will join the fourth MFDI cohorts to add a total of nine positions in the Arts and Humanities. As part of the MFDI program, the members of the cohorts will be provided enhanced mentoring, professional development, research funds, and a greatly reduced teaching load in the postdoctoral year, prior to transitioning to a tenure-track appointment in the second year.

Ph.D.in History required, with specialization in the Mediterranean World, 600-1500 CE.