Assistant Professor American Indian and Indigenous Studies; AIIS) Program

The American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Program at Hamilton College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (without tenure but on the tenure-track), beginning July 1, 2027. We seek candidates whose research and teaching are grounded in American Indian and Indigenous Studies and centered on Indigenous literatures, narrative, and cultural production in conversation with the environmental humanities.

We are especially interested in candidates working across climate fiction, multispecies and ecological thought, and decolonial approaches to the Anthropocene, and whose scholarship engages the political and legal dimensions of sovereignty and self-determination. We welcome candidates whose work is in conversation with Indigenous communities in North America and/or globally, and who bring an expansive, cross-disciplinary perspective to questions of land, justice, and Indigenous futures.

In particular, we are seeking a candidate with demonstrated leadership experience who can help build and lead our college’s interdisciplinary program in American Indian and Indigenous Studies, including teaching courses at the heart of the minor and guiding the program’s growth toward a concentration. Because the program is still in its early stages, we are prioritizing candidates who bring a track record of program building in addition to teaching in the field.

Applicants should provide evidence of this experience, such as developing curricular structures or degree programs, evidence of external funding, building and leading advisory committees, establishing and sustaining partnerships with tribal nations or Indigenous communities, leading community engagement and public programming, and navigating shared governance to launch or grow academic programs.

We are seeking candidates who can demonstrate their experience in teaching or working with broadly diverse student populations while contributing to a vibrant learning community that values academic freedom, creativity, and intellectual curiosity. Your cover letter should address the ways in which you would enhance the educational experience of students and further the College’s educational goals. The position requires institutional service, including academic advising of undergraduate students after the first year.

The American Indian and Indigenous Studies program at Hamilton College was formally established by faculty governance in May 2025. It is both interdisciplinary and extra disciplinary, spanning academic departments, disciplines, and fields of inquiry to integrate Indigenous ways of knowing across the liberal arts curriculum. The program is grounded in a reciprocal, community-based partnership with the Oneida Indian Nation, whose gift of land and vision helped found Hamilton College in 1793 as the Hamilton-Oneida Academy.

The vision of the 1793 Promise was to educate both American Indian and colonial settler youth; the College is working to honor and fulfill that promise. The program offers a five-course minor, currently draws on contributing faculty across nine departments, and is supported by a three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation. The program is building toward an eventual concentration. For more information, please visit the AIIS program website.

The teaching load for this position is four courses during the first year and five courses thereafter. The expected 9-month base salary range for this position is $94,500 to $116,500. Candidates should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and names/contact information for three references. The Final date to receive applications is September 21, 2026.

Hamilton College is a residential liberal arts college…