Faculty Positions

  • SJCS invites applications for a Tenure-track Appointment (Assistant or Associate) centering Indigenous knowledges and methodologies, with a start date of July 1, 2024. 

We seek a critically engaged Indigenous scholar from Turtle Island, with a demonstrated teaching, research, community-engaged commitment to Indigenous knowledges and methodologies. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong skills and/or experience with anti-colonial/decolonizing research and working with Indigenous communities, and an ability to teach undergraduate courses in their areas of expertise, strengthening the Department’s course offerings and community-engaged focus. The Department of SJCS is committed to equity and diversity as essential to academic excellence. Lived experience of colonization and Indigeneity, particularly on Turtle Island, will be a crucial dimension in considering applicants and this is a targeted search for candidates who self-identify as Indigenous (L’nu or other First Nation, Métis, Inuit).

For details on the position and application please see: https://www.smu.ca/webfiles/TenureTrack-AssistantorAssociateProfessor-DepartmentofSocialJusticeCommunityStudiesJobPost.pdf

Questions about the position and the application may be directed to the Department Chair c/o sjcs@smu.ca.

  • SJCS invites applications for an 8+1-month Limited-Term Appointment (LTA) at the rank of Assistant Professor, starting August 4, 2023.

We seek a critically engaged Indigenous scholar from Turtle Island, a Black scholar with specialization in anti-colonial and/or anti-racist work, or a racialized scholar specialized in critical trans or disability studies. The candidate must have a demonstrated capacity to teach the following courses: Social Power Relations; Race, Racism, Colonialism; Corporate & State Crime; Forms of Servitude. The Department is committed to equity and diversity as essential to academic excellence. Lived experience at the intersections of racialization, colonization, and Indigeneity will be a crucial dimension in considering applicants and this is a targeted search for candidates who self-identify as Indigenous (L’nu or other First Nation, Métis, Inuit), Black, or racialized.

For details on the position and application please see: https://www.smu.ca/webfiles/LTA-AssistantProfessor-DepartmentofSocialJusticeCommunityStudies-JobPosting.pdf

Questions about the position and the application may be directed to the Department Chair c/o sjcs@smu.ca.

  • SJCS Part-time Faculty Hiring for Spring-Summer 2023 is in process.
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