The Department of Political Science at Georgia State University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin Fall 2022. We seek a scholar whose research focuses on the politics of identity broadly defined (including, but not limited to ethnicity, race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and religion). We welcome scholars in any subfield of political science (American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Public Law, or Political Theory) or closely related discipline. The successful candidate will join a faculty with existing strengths in race and ethnicity, gender and politics, partisan and identity political polarization, civil conflict, and immigration politics. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to teach courses on the politics of identity at the undergraduate, M.A., and PhD levels as well as other courses in their area of expertise.

Georgia State University, an enterprising R-1 university located in Atlanta, is a national leader in using innovation to drive student success and research growth. Enrolling and graduating one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation, Georgia State provides its world-class faculty and more than 50,000 students unsurpassed research, teaching, and learning opportunities in one of the 21st century's great global cities. The Department is committed to serving this student body and advancing innovative research by building a diverse faculty. The College of Arts & Sciences supports professional success for all faculty through mentoring programs and representation of faculty from all ranks in college-level program development. GSU is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity. Among the core values of the department are diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion. We invite people of all backgrounds and identities, including, but not limited to races, ages, ethnicities, nationalities, religious beliefs, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities, as well as first-generation candidates, to apply for this position. The department's full vision, mission and values statement is available at https://bit.ly/3DZ6Y0n.

Essential Qualifications:
o A research agenda that indicates a clear theoretical and/or empirical engagement with the politics of identity.
o Ability to teach courses on identity politics and related topics at the undergraduate and graduate level.
o Interest in teaching and mentoring students of diverse backgrounds.
o A Ph.D. in hand or evidence that a PhD will be awarded by August 2022.

Preferred Qualifications:
o Demonstrated evidence of research productivity such as publications, articles under review, conference papers, or grant-
seeking activity.
o Demonstrated potential of teaching effectiveness, such as syllabi of past or future courses, teaching statement, or teaching evaluations.

Applicants should send a letter of interest that details how the essential and preferred qualifications are met, a curriculum vitae, a brief statement outlining their ability to work with a diverse student body, a statement of their research agenda, examples of scholarly
work, and evidence of teaching effectiveness to polssearch@gsu.edu, indicating Tenure-track Identity Politics position in the subject line. Please list three references (with name, title, email and phone number) who will provide letters of recommendation upon request.

Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2021 and will continue until the position is filled. Application materials submitted by this date will be given full consideration.  We will hold two online information open houses where you may ask questions, Thur 10/21 and Thur 10/28 from 12pm-4pm EDT via WebEx. The WebEx link for both Open Houses: https://gsumeetings.webex.com/webappng/sites/gsumeetings/meeting/info/4081418610b94b1a8e74c4c51897f8bc?siteurl=gsumeetings&MTID=m1b9ffff0d0882af50fa4f35e3e6a5cf9

Jennifer McCoy, PhD
Non-resident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Professor of Political Science
Georgia State University
38 Peachtree Center Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30307  USA
Website: Sites.gsu.edu/jmccoy
Twitter: jlynnmccoy
Office phone: 404-413-6180

The Department of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences (LAS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) invites
applications for the position of tenure track Assistant Professor in
political science, open subfield, beginning in the 2022-2023 academic
year, subject to budgetary approval. Full description through the link
below, and also APSA ejobs, #9453.
https://jobs.uic.edu/job-board/job-details?jobID=153014&job=assistant-professor-political-science

Happy to answer any questions about the position or the department.

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Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of
Political Science https://pols.uic.edu
Chair, the Committee on Social Science Research https://cssr.las.uic.edu,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago

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