Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Critical Race and Media Studies

College of the Holy Cross

Deadline: October 1

The Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment in Critical Race and Media Studies to begin in August 2025. This interdisciplinary department, the newest at the College, offers a major and minor in which students organize their curricular plan along one of the following tracks: Social Change and Transformation; Race and Intersectionality; Representation and Cultural Expressions; Transnational Approaches. We welcome perspectives that generate new ways of thinking about media cultures and their relationships with law and governance, embodiment, and radical and revolutionary traditions (e.g., Black Marxism, Subaltern studies, decolonial epistemologies, or new media social justice activism). A comparative or transnational approach is also desired. This position involves teaching introductory and intermediate courses as well as upper-level electives in the instructor’s specialty. Opportunities also exist for members of the department to involve themselves in advising and mentoring of students, to teach in the first-year Montserrat program, to incorporate community-based learning, or to seek interdisciplinary team-teaching opportunities at the College. We welcome candidates whose teaching and research interests will contribute to other interdisciplinary programs such as Africana Studies; Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies; Asian Studies; Digital Media Studies; and/or Film Studies.

This position carries a 3-2 teaching load with a research leave prior to tenure review of either a full year at 80% salary or a semester at full salary, and generous sabbatical and fellowship leaves for tenured faculty. To enable a smooth transition to Holy Cross, new full-time tenure-track Assistant Professors receive start-up funding to support their research and professional development and have a one-course reduction in their first year of teaching (i.e., 2-2). All full-time appointments offer competitive salaries and full benefits. Faculty at the College cultivate a richly diverse academic community, pursue innovative teaching, and create high-impact scholarship. To learn more about faculty life at the College & the Worcester area, candidates are encouraged to visit our Prospective Faculty page.

Learn more about this opportunity here.