Assistant Professor in Global Contemporary Art History

Full time / $70,000 – $73,000 annually / University of Florida / Gainesville, FL

The School of Art + Art History in the College of the Arts seeks an Assistant Professor of Art History with a specialization in Global Contemporary Art. The ideal candidate will be a forward-looking scholar and educator with strong intellectual and leadership skills. The new faculty member will join a vibrant, PhD-granting program with a graduate certificate in Curatorial Studies that is supported by international programming at the School’s own contemporary art exhibition space, the University Galleries, and through the endowed Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History lecture series and biannual symposium. In recent years, the University Galleries have engaged students in curating and experiencing exhibitions developed with the support of national arts organizations.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will prepare students to access and unsettle centers of power in a radically changing world. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for equity on local and global levels.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty, seeking faculty of all races, ethnicities, genders, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct a program of research appropriate to the discipline that will eventually lead to national recognition
• Teach a 2-2 load of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including art history survey courses, upper-level courses, and graduate seminars. This may also include a General Education Humanities course.
• Mentor and advise graduate students and supervise graduate committee and independent studies.
• Contribute to curriculum design, program development, and program outreach.
• Actively participate in our learning community.
• Contribute service to the university and profession.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
• PhD in Art History or a related field; or ABD nearing completion of the PhD, such that the PhD will be awarded by September 1, 2025.
• Ability to teach courses on art since 1945 in a global context.
• Evidence of success in promoting an environment that advances pluralism, curiosity, open intellectual discourse, and the well-being of all in the context of cultural and ideological difference.
• Evidence of the potential for developing an active research agenda that will eventually lead to national recognition in the field.
• Evidence of capacity to collaborate with staff collegially.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Research and teaching expertise in one of the following: Latin American, Latinx, East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, North African, Caribbean, or Afro-Atlantic Art, or Art of the African Diaspora or Indigenous Americas.
• Teaching experience as the instructor of record at the university level.
• Record of excellence in undergraduate and/or graduate teaching.
• Successful experience with innovative or cross-disciplinary curricula.
• Engagement with curatorial practice.