One- Visiting Instructor​/Assistant Professor of Jewish History

Position: One-Year Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Jewish History
Position Title One-Year Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Jewish History About the University

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

About the Department

The Department of History at Western Washington University consists of twenty tenured or tenure-track faculty whose courses serve a very active history major and make significant contributions to the university's general education curriculum. History courses cover nearly every historical era and much of the globe. The department encourages its faculty to participate in interdisciplinary programs such as the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, Canadian-American Studies, East Asian Studies, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Honors program.

Faculty in the department provide high-quality courses that prepare majors and non-majors with skills in research, analysis, and writing. The department also houses a small but strong M.A. program in history. The history department supports Western's identity as an institution that welcomes and embraces diversity and encourages applications from diverse candidates. To learn more about the History Department, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

About the Position

This is a one-year Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Jewish History beginning on September 16, 2026 through June 15, 2027.

Responsibilities include teaching seven five-credit courses over three quarters, including three sections of two lower-division surveys, History of the Holocaust, and three other courses in the candidate's specialty. No service is required during the term of the appointment.

The department, college and University value teaching, and we expect you to be an excellent teacher; to be current in your discipline; to engage students actively in their own learning including discussion, writing, and analysis; and to set high standards regarding course content. You are expected to provide students with feedback on their coursework and examinations, and to be available to students through regularly scheduled office hours in keeping with department policy.

Required Qualifications

* ABD or PhD in Jewish history or a related field, with the ability to teach courses in Jewish history and the Holocaust

* Demonstrated commitment to fostering and promoting an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion

* Demonstrated potential to teach courses in Jewish History and in the…