Director Newark Earthworks Center Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Col

Job Title

Director of the Newark Earthworks Center

Department:
Newark | General

The Ohio State University at Newark invites applications for Director of the Newark Earthworks Center at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor with tenure. We seek a scholar whose research employs Native American and Indigenous Studies methodologies, foregrounding Indigenous peoples’ intellectual traditions, histories, aesthetics, geographies, and other ways of knowing. We welcome applications from publicly engaged scholars with leadership and administrative experience whose research and teaching demonstrates accountability to Indigenous communities.

The mission of the Newark Earthworks Center is to promote and support research, teaching and engagement by faculty, students, scholars, Indigenous peoples, and other stakeholders with an interest in the ancestral and contemporary Indigenous places, peoples, cultures and experiences within and around Ohio.

In addition to serving in the leadership role, the director will also be a dedicated teacher and productive scholar.

The departmental home of the position is Comparative Studies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines are encouraged to apply, including, but not limited to Anthropology, English, Geography, History, and History of Art.

At The Ohio State University, while faculty teach primarily on their home campus, all faculty members’ Tenure-Initiating Units are based in Columbus.

The director will have the opportunity to collaborate with the American Indian Studies program in the Center for Ethnic Studies in developing programming. The director will have a unique opportunity to contribute to the efforts of World Heritage Ohio to celebrate Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks UNESCO World Heritage Site. The new director will be expected to develop a clear research focus, based on the NEC mission and the recognition of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks as a serial World Heritage Site (2023);

to collaborate across disciplines, universities, and other Indigenous World Heritage sites; and to communicate the NEC mission effectively with media and constituencies.

• Lead the Newark Earthworks Center, building its profile at The Ohio State University as an academic research center and its profile on campus connecting with stakeholders beyond the campus, and bringing attention to the Midwest Indigenous cultures who created the earthworks at the core of the Center’s mission;
• Expand meaningful research and outreach opportunities for students on the campus;
• Develop impactful, productive scholarship consistent with the ongoing missing of the Newark Earthworks Center;
• Cultivate productive relationships with tribal governments;
• Collaborate with scholars across departments and engage diverse constituencies (including Indigenous communities) inside and outside of the university;
• Teach and advise graduate and undergraduate students; and
• Seek out external funding that emphasizes the strengths of the NEC’s research and outreach efforts (as directed by the Office Academic Affairs).

Persons with the titles of professor, associate professor, assistant professor and instructor who serve on appointments totaling 50% or more service to the university and who are eligible for tenure or who have obtained tenure. Duties and responsibilities are assigned in accordance with the workload guidelines laid out in the pattern of administration of each faculty member’s tenure initiation unit (TIU) and, as appropriate, regional campus;

obligations will include research, service and/or teaching or clinical practice. These faculty will have earned doctorate or other terminal degree in the relevant field of study or possession of equivalent experience.