The School of Art and Design History and Theory (ADHT) at Parsons The New School for Design seeks applicants for a renewable term Assistant Professor in Art and Design History and School-based Coordinator for the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE).
Responsibilities:
Candidates should demonstrate expertise in the history and interpretation of the material world from the perspective of art and design history and curatorial practice. Candidates must be interdisciplinary in their methodologies of research and have expertise with innovative pedagogical approaches that will engage students across Parsons and the wider University community. A focus on the design and decoration of the historical interior and a commitment to curatorial studies is highly desirable. The locus of this position will be in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, whose full- and part-time faculty are engaged academically while remaining active in their professional fields of practice. The New School is committed to actively recruiting applicants from a diverse pool. We encourage candidates from groups underrepresented in US higher education to apply. Applicants are encouraged to speak briefly in their cover letters about their experiences in nontraditional and/or diversity environments.
Scholarship of the successful candidate will contribute to the connections among the school’s graduate degree programs in the following areas: MA in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies (in collaboration with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum); MA in Fashion Studies; and MA in Design Studies
The Assistant Professor may be expected to teach undergraduate as well as graduate courses, and students from diverse backgrounds and a variety of disciplines across Parsons. The teaching load will be 5 courses per year, or the equivalent.
The Assistant Professor’s initial service activity will be as School-based CUE Coordinator for ADHT, having oversight of the core required courses that include the Integrative Seminars I and II, Objects as History, and the Junior Capstone course, Advanced Research Seminar. In this capacity, the Coordinator will supervise the course coordinators and the hiring of part-time faculty instructors for these courses.
Please see http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/art-design-history-theory-school-adht/ for a description of the School of Art and Design History and Theory and its current graduate and undergraduate programs.
Minimum Qualifications:
• A completed PhD on a topic in Art and Design History, with additional specialized training in the theory and practice of critical writing.
• At least three years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level, in a design school environment as well as in a university setting.
• Demonstrated research and scholarship on an international level that develops significant critical and theoretical discourses in Art and Design History.
• Curatorial research experience at a major institution.
• At least two years experience in academic administration, particularly with a focus on faculty affairs.
• At least two years experience in undergraduate curriculum development, implementation and assessment.
• Experience implementing and assessing global academic initiatives and partnerships.
• Experience developing and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on critical writing.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with faculty and students.
• Excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills.
All hiring is subject to final Provost budgetary approval.
For full description and application instructions, see https://careers.newschool.edu/postings/11460
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