Visiting Scholar - Architecture (Non-Tenure Track Faculty Applicant Pool

Position Details

Position Information

Announcement Number FAC - VA - 26117

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Brian Kelly

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Classification Title Working Title Visiting Scholar - Architecture (Non-Tenure Track Faculty Applicant Pool)

Brief Position Overview

This one-semester position is intended to attract and support an emerging scholar or practitioner (or a group of scholars or practitioners) with a range of innovative scholarship or progressive practice in architecture or allied fields. Candidates are expected to teach, conduct research, and facilitate creative activity that will contribute to or challenge thinking about architecture as the School of Architecture looks to the future.

A broad range of scholarly and professional expertise is welcomed.

Faculty Tenure Track:
No

Faculty Rank:
Non-Tenure Track Position

Number: 4A6161

Department:
Architecture

Division:
College of Arts & Architecture

Appointment Type:
Faculty

Contract Term:
Academic Year Semester

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Union Affiliation:
Exempt from Collective Bargaining

FTE: 1.0

Benefits:
Eligible

Salary:
Salary commensurate with experience, education, and qualifications.

Contract Type: LOA

Recruitment Type:
Open

The appointment supports the MSU Land Grant vision to transform lives and communities in the people’s interest and the School of Architecture’s mission to instill personal agency, self-reflection, and environmental empathy to educate innovators who challenge and advance the design professions.

The Visiting Scholar is expected to contribute to or challenge thinking about architecture through their teaching, research, and creative activity. The Visiting Scholar is required to present the accomplishments in the form of a public lecture at the School and submit the work produced at the School to an external body for peer review and dissemination to national or international audiences.

• Teach a 6 credit graduate design studio
• Teach a first-year 1 credit honors seminar
• Conduct design related original research
• Participate in faculty meetings
• Serve on studio reviews
• Present school-wide lecture
• Be an engaged and active participant with students, faculty and staff on a day-to-day basis
• Conduct a week-long field trip in the state of Montana related course content

• Professional degree in Architecture or related field
• Notable recognition of Scholarship/Creative Activity.
• Teaching or leadership experience appropriate to the position.
• Scholarship/Creative Activity may be from a discipline related to architecture.

• Demonstrated engagement with contemporary issues in architecture

This job description should not be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements, but a general description of the job. Nothing contained herein restricts Montana State University’s rights to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Consisting of 300 undergraduate and 60 graduate students, the School of Architecture offers a 5½
-year professional program leading to a Master of Architecture degree, fully accredited by NAAB. Located in the heart of the Greater Yellowstone ecological system and the Intermountain West region, the School of Architecture, College of Arts & Architecture and Montana State University are internationally recognized for research and creative activity drawn from the social, cultural, and environmental opportunities of the region.

The School of Architecture is one of four schools that make up the College of Arts & Architecture, along with the Schools of Art, Film & Photography and Music.…