OPEN POSITION
Musicology/Ethnomusicolgy
Assistant Professor, Tenure-line
The Department of Music in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University seeks to hire a tenure-line Assistant Professor of Music, with specialization in musicology /ethnomusicology. Preference will be given to a candidate whose research can contribute to the College’s Americas’ Initiative, comprising a multidisciplinary group of faculty with a research-intensive focus on the trans historical African Diaspora in the Americas, which may include research and teaching intersections with Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx musical, cultural, social and artistic practices. The successful candidate will join current faculty whose research contributes to the overall hemispheric studies emphasis in the college. FAU’s status as a Hispanic Serving Institution, and its unique location at the nexus of South America, North America and the Caribbean, provides an exciting environment for research specialization in musicology/ethnomusicology. The College seeks scholars wishing to engage with the diverse FAU student body, multicultural South Florida and institutional exchange programs in the Americas, Africa and Europe.
The successful candidate would teach undergraduate and graduate music history courses in the music major degree (antiquity through 21st century), and in additional areas as expertise applies. The candidate may participate as appropriate in interdisciplinary teams to advance a distinctive scholarly agenda with the aspiration of establishing a Center for the Study of Diaspora and Migration in the Americas. The candidate may have opportunities to mentor graduate students in the Department of Music, across disciplines, and in our college-wide interdisciplinary PhD program as appropriate. Participating faculty will also have access to our University’s Peace, Justice and Human Rights platform for additional research and programing support if applicable to the candidate’s area of specialization. Collaborative multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary extramural grant opportunities will be encouraged with internal seed grants, robust institutional grant-writing support, and post-award administrative assistance.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology. Three years of collegiate teaching experience preferred. Evidence of potential for research significance in music.
Inspiring achievement in music through student engagement in scholarship, diverse modes of creative activity, and community outreach. The Department of Music is housed on the Boca Raton campus. Degree programs include Bachelor of Music Education; Bachelor of Music (Performance’ Commercial Music Composition, Commercial Music Business, and Commercial Music Technology); Bachelor of Arts; and Master of Music (Performance, Commercial Music Composition, Wind Conducting, Choral Conducting). Its faculty include GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominees; Fulbright Scholars; internationally acclaimed artist performers. Alumni include GRAMMY winners, among other prizes and awards. The Department of Music is home to Hoot/Wisdom Recordings LLC, a professional record label that is faculty-supervised and student-run.
Florida Atlantic University, founded in 1961, is currently serving more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six-county service region in southeast Florida. FAU has an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion. The University’s student body, which ranks as the most ethnically and culturally diverse in Florida's State University System, includes many men and women of non-traditional age. Long known as an outstanding teaching institution, FAU is undergoing rapid development as a center of cutting-edge research, particularly in the biomedical arena. This process has been accelerated by the University’s partnerships with three internationally known biomedical research organizations, the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience. Additionally, FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine welcomed its inaugural class in 2011. For more information on Florida Atlantic University, visit www.fau.edu.
This position is contingent on funding.