Lecturer, University Professor, Academic

Position Information

Posting Number

Posting Number F00641P

Position Title

Department

Department Modern Languages

Location

Location Arlington

Job Family

Job Family Faculty

Position Status

Position Status Full-time

Rank

Work Hours

Work Hours Standard

Open to

Open to External and Internal

FLSA

FLSA Exempt

Duration

Duration Job terminates

Pay Basis

Pay Basis Monthly

Benefits Eligible

Benefits Eligible Yes

The Department of History and Geography in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Arlington invites applications for a tenured position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor in Texas history, with broader expertise in the history of the Greater Southwest. The successful candidate will also serve as Director of UTA’s Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, fostering interdisciplinary research, public-facing scholarship, and engagement with the rich historical resources of the University and the Dallas-Fort Worth region.

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The successful candidate will maintain a productive research agenda and serve as the Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, providing intellectual and administrative leadership for the Center’s interdisciplinary research, public-facing scholarship, community engagement, and external funding initiatives. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses, mentor master’s and doctoral research in Texas and Greater Southwestern history, contribute to curricular programs within the department and college, and participate in the departmental, university, and professional service.

The Director will support the Center’s existing programs and develop new initiatives, which may include digital humanities projects, collaborations with UTA Libraries Special Collections, partnerships with cultural and community organizations, and grant-funded research and programming.

• Ph.D. in History
• An established record of research and publication in Texas and/or the Greater Southwest, commensurate with appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor
• Demonstrated experience and effectiveness in teaching courses in Texas history

The Department of History and Geography (
https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./history ) offers three bachelor’s degree plans, a minor in Geography, and numerous other minor options at the undergraduate level; at the graduate level, the Department offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History, as well as a graduate certificate in Archival Administration. Along with offering core-compliant courses in geography and US history to students from across the University, we have about 250 majors and 60 graduate students.

Our award-winning faculty offer courses in a rich array of specialties with particular strengths in the digital humanities, in the history of gender, immigration, and labor, in cultural history, in transnational history, and in the history of…