The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for the position of Director of American Indian Studies, with a concurrent appointment as a tenured professor. Appointment will be located at the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2024. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. This is a fiscal year, full-time benefits-eligible position.

The successful candidate will join and lead an interdisciplinary community of scholars and students at a Research 1 University whose charter and goals prioritize assuming responsibility for the communities we serve, enabling student success, and enhancing our local impact. ASU serves more than 150,000 students both online and across five campuses in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, the fifth largest city in the US.

American Indian Studies (AIS) is a diverse and innovative graduate and undergraduate degree program at one of the top universities in the Southwest. Centered in the ancestral homeland of the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa), ASU is a crossroads for Arizona’s twenty-two Indigenous nations, and includes one of the largest Native urban populations in the United States. ASU enrolls more than 4,000 American Indian students from Arizona and elsewhere. AIS offers a B.S. degree, an undergraduate minor, a certificate in American Indian Nation Governance and an M.S. degree. The program emphasizes tribal sovereignty and governance and community-based planning, Indigenous community health and research, environmental science, Indigenous print and material cultures, and Indigenous intellectual history. The unit’s teaching and research honors Indigenous knowledge and methodologies and the spirit of sovereignty and self-determination that is at the heart of communities that we serve. The AIS faculty is embedded in Indigenous communities, actively collaborates with other disciplines and programs across the campus and engages in a national and international network of professional associations and consultancies. More information is available here.

Reporting to the Dean of Social Sciences, the Director will provide dynamic, collaborative administrative leadership and an academic vision that resonates with the design aspirations of the “New American University.“ The Director will develop collaborations both within and beyond AIS and strengthen links with other academic units at ASU.  Such as the Labriola National American Indian Data Center https://lib.asu.edu/labriola, and Center for Indian Education https://center-for-indian-education.asu.edu/and with the wider community, especially with American Indian and Indigenous communities. The Director will foster growth and innovation in the School’s teaching and research endeavors; attract, mentor, and retain exceptional faculty members and staff; promote and support student success and career readiness for on-campus and online degree students; develop interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives; and provide informed and visionary leadership in fiscal planning and management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ph.D. or equivalent in American Indian, Native American or Indigenous Studies, social sciences, humanities or a related field
• A scholarly record commensurate with the rank of tenured Professor or advanced Associate Professor
• Demonstrated administrative leadership experience
•  Demonstrated record of excellence in teaching and service in an academic setting
• Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty, staff, students, and Native American and Indigenous communities to advance the principles of the ASU Charter and the AIS Paradigm https://americanindian.asu.edu/ais-paradigm

Desired Qualifications:

• Potential for innovative, strategic and visionary leadership in an academic setting
• Strategies for and demonstrated record of building and enhancing community-based initiatives
• Demonstrated commitment to interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research
• Commitment to supporting innovative teaching in various modalities, including online
• Demonstrated ability for mentorship and professional development of faculty, staff and students
• Experience in obtaining external funding and commitment to developing donor relations and fundraising
• Evidence of excellent communication, managerial and organizational skills

Application Instructions:

This is a paperless search. Only electronic submissions will be reviewed. Incomplete applications will not be considered. To apply, please submit the following to http://apply.interfolio.com/135321:

1. 1. 1. a cover letter outlining how you meet the above qualifications and your vision for leading American Indian Studies
      2. a curriculum vitae
      3. contact information (including emails) for four references. References may be contacted at a later stage of the search and only with the candidate’s approval.   All documents should be submitted in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

Questions concerning the position should be addressed to Dr. Irasema Coronado, search committee co-chair, at [email protected].

To apply, please visit http://apply.interfolio.com/135321 to electronically submit the required application materials. Applications received by November 24, 2023. will receive full consideration, while applications received thereafter will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

A background check is required for employment.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. ASU’s full nondiscrimination statement (ACD 401) is located on the ASU website at https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html and https://www.asu.edu/titleIX.

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