Critical Disability Studies – Non-Tenure Track Faculty Pool

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Position Title Critical Disability Studies – Non-Tenure Track Faculty Vacancy Pool

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.

Western Washington University’s Bellingham Campus sits upon the unceded ancestral lands of the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe. We affirm that indigenous communities are still here and still provide leadership in our shared communities.

The Institute for Critical Disability Studies (ICDS) was established in 2022. It is a cross-disciplinary initiative, drawing faculty from across the humanities, sciences, performing arts, and beyond. The ICDS offers a minor in Critical Disability Studies, which consists of three core courses and electives from across the university. We are committed to an ethos of disability justice, which means we are devoted to social justice and leadership of those most impacted by disability issues, meaning disabled, d/Deaf, queer, and BIPOC people themselves.

We encourage applications from women, trans and queer people, people of color, disabled people, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The Critical Disability Studies program maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in teaching with the program. In anticipation of possible openings throughout the academic year and summer sessions, applications are accepted continuously for temporary part-time non-tenure track teaching positions with occasional opportunities for temporary, full-time appointments. Positions may become available at any time and are typically filled on a quarterly basis.

The position is responsible for teaching a subset of courses in the Critical Disability Studies program, which currently consists of DISA 201 (Stories of Disability in the World), DISA 330 (Critical Disability Studies), DISA 350 (Topics in Critical Disability Studies), and DISA 450 (Capstone in Critical…