Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Non-tenure Track Faculty Pool

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Position Title Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality 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 Washington University 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.

The College of Humanities & Social Sciences and the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies support Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

Students fulfill the major and minor through Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies core courses – Introduction to Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies;
Introduction to Feminist Theory;
Introduction to Queer & Sexuality Studies;
Studies in Gender Theory;
Feminist and Queer Methodologies;
Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the Senior Capstone. The Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department provides academic space for interdisciplinary as well as community-based learning. The Department offers small, student-centered classes, innovative pedagogy, and close faculty-student interaction.

The Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in non-tenure-track teaching positions. In anticipation of possible openings throughout the academic year, applications are accepted continuously for temporary, part-time, non-tenure-track positions at the instructor level. Although most non-tenure-track faculty receive their course assignments for the upcoming academic year…