Mount Royal University
Mount Royal University - 2 Opportunities
1. Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Application Deadline: February 14, 2025
We invite applications for one position, subject to final budgetary approval, at the rank of Assistant Professor with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025.
The successful candidate will be a teacher-scholar broadly trained in gender, women’s, sexuality, and/or feminist studies with expertise in field(s) that complement but do not duplicate those already represented.
Particular areas of interest include but are not limited to theories and practices of Indigenous, critical race, and/or transnational feminist, queer and/or trans studies. We are also interested in feminist science and technology studies.
Among other core courses in the WGST, the candidate should be able to teach: WGST 2205 Transnational Feminisms, WGST 3310 Decolonizing Feminisms, and WGST 3311 Gender, Race and Power. The candidate will also be able to teach foundation-level General Education courses.
2. Assistant Professor, Sociology
Application Deadline: February 18, 2025
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts at Mount Royal University invites applications for a tenure track position in sociology, which will commence on July 1, 2025, at the Rank of Assistant Professor, subject to final budgetary approval. Applicants need to have either completed or are in the final stages of completing their doctoral degree in sociology. The discipline of sociology is looking for a critical sociologist whose area of research and teaching complements and extends the current disciplinary focus on anti-racism, decolonialism, social justice, and structural transformation. The successful candidate will employ an intersectional sociological perspective in their study and will be expected to teach in one or more of the following areas: Social Research Methods (SLGY 2232), Quantitative Methods (slgy 3321), or Contemporary Social Theory (SLGY 3333). We invite candidates with demonstrated expertise and established research programs in any sociological field such as Anti-Black Racism; Anti-Asian Racism; Black Liberation; Climate Justice; Critical Race Theory; Disability Studies; Decolonial Theory and Methods; Institutional Ethnography; Social Policy and Governance; and Queer Theory. A commitment to decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in the curriculum is a priority.