[Sasnet] tenure-track position as Assistant Curator of Anthropology

[Wells, Christian]

Chicago's Field Museum announces an opening for a tenure-track position as Assistant Curator of Anthropology for fall 2008.  The museum seeks a top scholar whose research addresses themes relevant to a broad public and speaks to the discipline at large.  The successful candidate will have an active field research program documented by grants and publications and will be firmly grounded in collections based research.  Applicants should have a focus on material culture and a willingness to collaborate with local scholars and communities from the areas in which they study.  Geographical, technical, and sub-disciplinary areas of expertise are open, but should complement existing department strengths.  The museum has collections and research interests in North America, the circum-Mediterranean, and any part of Asia that are currently underrepresented on our curatorial faculty.

 

The Field Museum is one of the world's top natural history research museums, with over 150 scientists on staff and a curatorial faculty of nearly 40.  The Department of Anthropology, with 10 curators, is one of the most active departments in the nation in terms of research, exhibitions, active field collection, and education.  The museum has significant laboratory facilities in molecular genetics, compositional chemistry, and scanning electron microscopy.  In conjunction with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the faculty offers the PhD in Anthropology from UIC.  Curators have full graduate faculty status and chair PhD committees in this program.  We have also developed an evolving joint program with Northwestern University's Department of Anthropology.  Please see our website http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/anthropology/default.htm

 

Interested scholars should send a letter of interest, statement of research and collection-oriented objectives, and cv including names and contact information of three references to:  Curatorial Search Committee Chair, Department of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60605.  For fullest consideration, submissions must be received by November 30, 2007.  The Field Museum is an equal opportunity employer.

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