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1 Year Visiting Professor -

Global Studies Department Department of Global Studies Location:

Waterville, ME Open Date:

Oct 06, 2026

Description:

The Global Studies Department at Colby College invites applications for a one-year position at the Visiting Assistant Professor rank, beginning July 1, 2027. We seek a transdisciplinary scholar of critical political economy, with teaching and research in such areas as postcolonial political economy, feminist political economy, cultural political economy, or critical development studies. Candidates should be prepared to teach courses in areas that could include: health, migration/borders, global supply chains, extraction, the commons, political ecology, displacement, empire, critical humanitarianism, among others. The search committee is especially interested in candidates who, through their research, teaching, and/or service, draw on and contribute to critical perspectives and pedagogies of the Global South, Indigenous, migrant, and other underrepresented communities. We welcome candidates whose scholarship centers alternative wisdom traditions, epistemologies, futurities, and often overlooked traditions of resistance. Global Studies is one of the largest interdisciplinary majors at Colby. As one of the oldest Global Studies departments at a liberal arts college, the department has a history of drawing on faculty and classes from across the college. Building on this foundation, Global Studies at Colby is in the midst of a multi-year process of aligning our curriculum with critical and transdisciplinary approaches to global studies. We are particularly excited to welcome a new colleague who might engage in, and contribute to, that process with us. Depending on training and interests, they could also participate in relevant centers and institutions on campus, including social science and humanities departments, interdisciplinary departments such as Latin American Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Environmental Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), STS, and initiatives such as the Oak Institute for Human Rights, the Center for the Arts and Humanities, and the Critical Indigenous Studies Initiative (CISI). Given our department's commitment to transdisciplinarity, the successful candidate will either be trained in a transdisciplinary field or trained in a discipline with demonstrated transdisciplinary teaching and research. To apply, visit https://apply.interfolio.com/195065 Colby is a private, coeducational liberal arts college that admits students and makes personnel decisions on the basis of the individual's qualifications to contribute to Colby's educational objectives and institutional needs. The principle of not discriminating on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, caste, national or ethnic origin, marital status, genetic information, political beliefs, veteran or military status, parental status, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, physical or mental disability unrelated to the job or course of study requirements is consistent with the mission of a liberal arts college and the law. Copyright ©2025 Jobelephant.com Inc. All rights reserved. Posted by the FREE value-added recruitment advertising agency je-5f1484def40f417da8ebc308ddc4300f