The Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor faculty position beginning September 1,2025 in the areas of native/indigenous feminisms and human rights.  

We seek an accomplished researcher and an experienced instructor who is committed to teaching in an urban university setting and to thinking and practicing in collaborative and interdisciplinary ways. Tenure stream faculty are expected to teach two courses each semester. A major focus of the position would be contributing to the growth of the department's thriving undergraduate minor in Human Rights. Candidates will have opportunities to collaborate with a number of ethnic and global studies programs and departments in the College of Liberal Arts and beyond including the Critical Ethnic & Community Studies MS, Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Global Governance, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor, the Institute for New England Native American Studies,  The Consortium for Gender, Security and Human Rights, and the Boston area Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, & Sexuality. 

Areas of potential research interest include but are not limited to: settler colonialism, dispossession, migration and diaspora contexts; decolonial education; Black/Indigenous or Afro-Indigenous futurisms; critical legal, land and sovereignty issues; Indigenous community reclamation of knowledge, land, and water; social movements; environmental justice, traditional ecological knowledge, and urgent climate issues. We are especially interested in scholars who use collaborative and/or innovative research methodologies such as literary and cultural studies, art, storytelling, land-based pedagogies, performance studies, etc. 

Minimum requirements: receipt of Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Indigenous, Native, or First-Nations Studies, or related field by August 31, 2025.

Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2024. The position will remain open until filled.

Application instructions:

Please apply online, applicants should submit a CV with a cover letter describing in detail your research and teaching interests, one writing sample, and three letters of references.

https://employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us/listing/

UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who engage the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

UMass Boston is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact HRDirect@umb.edu or 617-287-5150.