Wiki page for Academic Jobs in Ethnic Studies advertised during the 2024-2025 hiring season. This page is for jobs that begin in 2025.
Last year's page: Ethnic Studies 2023-2024
For closely related fields, see also: American Studies 2024-2025, Comparative Literature 2024-2025, English Literature 2024-2025, and Queer/Women's/Gender Studies 2024-2025.
For specific regional studies, see East Asian Studies 2024-2025, Eastern European & Eurasian Languages & Literatures 2024-2025, French and Francophone Studies 2024-2025, German 2024-2025, Italian Studies 2024-2025, Middle Eastern Studies & Languages 2024-2025, Northern European Studies & Languages 2024-2025, Spanish and Portuguese 2024-2025, South Asian, Indian Ocean, & Himalayan Studies & Languages 2024-2025. If a link is in red it means the page has not yet been created for this year.
See also Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2024-2025
Ethnic Studies Fields[]
African & African American (incl. Black Studies)
RECENT ACTIVITY on Ethnic Studies 2024-2025[]
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12/2 - Any updates on the UC Berkeley open-rank search in Native American and Indigenous Studies ?
11/12 - Has anyone heard from the Berkeley Transpacific Asian/Pacific Futures job in Ethnic Studies?
- Recommenders received request for LORs on 10/16, nothing since then. Weirdly I didn't get a notification about it.
11/03 - Any news on the following?:
- Berkeley (Chicanx/Latinx Studies)
- finalists selected according to Chicanx wiki
- William & Mary (Indigenous/Latinx/Asian American Lit)
- U Maryland, College Park -(Asian American Lit)
- nothing 11/7
- an update on the asian-american wiki says a request for further materials has been sent
- Bryn Mawr (Asian American Lit)
- nothing 11/7
- interviews sent out, according to asian-american wiki
- Vassar (Asian American Lit)
- nothing 11/7
- U San Diego (Asian American Studies)
- an update on the asian-american wiki says interviews have been set up
- Stanford (IDEAL Fellowship)
- Pomona (Asian American Lit)
- an update on the asian-american wiki says a request for further materials has been sent
10/01 - Has anyone heard from the City College of New York? I'm also curious about this position because there is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department with a very similar academic profile to the job description... Does anyone have any insider knowledge about that?
Jobs for 2025 (List alphabetically)[]
- Augsburg University (MN, USA). Assistant Professor, Black Studies and Literary Studies. "We welcome applicants who can contribute to the missions of both departments by combining teaching excellence with scholarly expertise in Black and Afro-diasporic experiences and literature. We are particularly interested in scholars working on critical race theory, postcolonial literary studies, abolitionist theory, Black feminist thought, Black queer studies, and/or Black visual cultures, and/or those who do community-based research or other related critical research methodologies. The successful candidate should be comfortable teaching introductory to advanced literature classes or be a poet or creative nonfiction writer capable of leading writing workshops." Application review will begin on October 21, 2024. TT/FT. Link. Updates:
- City College of New York (NY, NY). Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies - Department of English. The successful candidate will have PhD in English or Comparative Literature, and will be responsible for teaching, research and professional services with specializations in modern and contemporary Caribbean literature & queer studies. Due: August 25, 2024. TT. Link
- Elon University (NC, USA). Assistant Professor of Latinx or Native American Literatures. The successful candidate will have training and expertise as well as an active research agenda in Latinx or Native American Literatures and cultures. A Ph.D. in English or a related field by start date and a record of innovation and excellence in teaching are required. Teaching will include up to six classes per year, including introductory and advanced literature, first-year writing, and interdisciplinary courses in the core curriculum. Additional responsibilities include student mentorship through advising and collaborative undergraduate research and contributions to the life of the department, university, and discipline or profession. Elon is a national leader in study abroad, and offers professional development and support for candidates interested in developing study-away courses. Due: November 1, 2024. TT. Link
- Florida State University (FL, USA). Teaching Faculty I, University Honors Program. 9/23/2024. NT. FT. https://jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psc/sprdhr_er/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_SCHJOB_FL&Action=U (Job ID 58290)
- Loyola University Chicago (IL, USA). TT, FT, Assistant Professor, Comparative Ethnic American Literature. The Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago seeks qualified candidates for an appointment as Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2025. We seek candidates with strong research and teaching profiles in early comparative ethnic American literature and culture, especially early Latino/a/e/x and/or early Asian American and Asian diasporic writing and expression. Preferred: Scholars working in comparative or relational race and ethnic studies are especially desired. Preferred: Specialists in all literary genres, critical approaches, and topics are encouraged to apply, particularly those in: queer, trans, feminist or sexuality studies; migration studies; labor studies; textual studies; digital humanities; critical race theory; environmental humanities, medical humanities, or the history of science; or revolutionary studies or the Age of Revolution. Encouraged: Scholars whose work expands the definition of Pre-1900 ethnic American literature using hemispheric, oceanic, or global frameworks and comparative interdisciplinary methods are also welcomed to apply. This may include comparative studies between one of the above fields and another body of literature from the early modern, eighteenth- or nineteenth-century Americas, Atlantic and Pacific worlds, such as but not limited to Caribbean (e.g., Puerto Rican, Cuban, Saint-Domingue/Haitian, Chinese Jamaican or Trinidadian, etc.), Mexican Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, or Hawaiian literatures. See details here: https://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29717. Dec. 9. TT. FT. 2/2. Apply here: https://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29717.
- Mount Wachusett Community College (MA, USA). TT, FT, Associate Professor. Experience with and desire to teach courses in one or more of the following areas: African American literature; multiethnic American literature; Latinx literature of the Americas; and courses in support of the department's degree track in Professional Writing through a CRT and/or social justice lens. Due Nov 13. https://mwcc.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=182367
- UC Berkeley (CA, USA). Assistant Professor of Latinx/Chicanx Literatures – Department of English. "The successful candidate will have training in Latinx and/or Chicanx cultural studies; grounding in one or more Latinx regional, national, and/or transnational literatures/cultures; and a dynamic critical approach to the traditions(s) in which they specialize. We welcome a wide variety of theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to the field." Sep 20. TT. FT. https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04481. Updates:
- UC Berkeley (CA, USA). Assistant Professor - Afro-diasporic Cultures, Gender and Sexuality, Indigeneity Studies - Department of Music. The Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a fulltime tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology with an expected start date of July 1, 2025. For more information about the position, including required qualifications and application materials, go to https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04491. The deadline to apply is September 20, 2024. Please direct questions to Marié Abe, Committee Chair, at marie.abe@berkeley.edu. Questions about the application process can be directed to Kris Andrews, Academic HR Analyst, at musichr@berkeley.edu. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status., TT/NT
- Vassar College (NY, USA). Assistant Professor of English – Asian American Literature. "We are especially interested in applicants whose research and teaching interests include: critical ethnic studies, postcolonial literature, twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, graphic novels and new media, or literary nonfiction. In addition, we welcome applicants who link the study of Asian American Literature to interdisciplinary research areas, such as Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies; environmental humanities; diasporic, transnational, and transpacific studies; digital humanities; media studies. In partnership with the multidisciplinary programs, we are interested in other emerging subfields that examine the relationship between culture, identity, and embodiment, such as queer, trans, and disability studies. A candidate with a specialization in digital humanities would also be welcome." Oct 14. TT. FT. https://employment.vassar.edu/postings/3774?applicant_id=E99A6F6C-C06D-4136-9837-F513729C6318&ad_id=AD4956953. Updates:
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