at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 54411
Department: WCAS Art History
The Department of Art History at Northwestern University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment in Contemporary Art and/or Architectural History at the Associate Professor level, to begin September 1, 2027. Applications from advanced Assistant Professors approaching tenure will also be considered. The geographic focus is open, but ideal candidates would complement and expand the current geographic strengths of our faculty, including Africa and African diaspora, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe and the Eastern bloc, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States. We especially welcome candidates whose research and teaching critically disrupt Eurocentric and colonial axes of global exchange or challenge conventional methodological or theoretical approaches to the study of contemporary art. We seek to hire a scholar with interests that could include the connections of art and architecture to colonial and postcolonial political contexts and decolonial struggles, liberation movements, critical spatial theory, ecology and landscape, socialism, transnational socialism and post-socialism, Indigeneity, migration, diaspora, exile, and belonging.
The successful candidate will pursue a research agenda, collaborate with faculty in the Department of Art History and other units in the College and University, and teach in both the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. This position carries a teaching load of four quarter-long courses. A doctoral degree is required by the time the appointment begins. Applications received by October 15, 2026 will be assured of full consideration.
To apply, please submit 1) a letter of application explaining your research accomplishments and goals, and teaching strengths and commitments; and 2) a current CV including the names of three references. Candidates who advance in the search will be asked to submit a writing sample, a sample course syllabus, and letters of reference.
Please submit materials electronically through the application link available on our website: https://arthistory.northwestern.edu/about/open-positions/
Preliminary interviews will be conducted online in November and December. Inquiries about the position may be directed to Mel Keiser, mel.keiser@northwestern.edu.
Salary
The expected base pay range for this position is $120,000 - $150,000.
