Vacancy :: Centre for Gender and Diversity

Vacancy Associate Professor Gender and Diversity-studies F/M (Full-time)

The Centre for Gender and Diversity, part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University, is looking for a full-time Associate Professor in the field of Gender and Diversity Studies. Preference will be given to a candidate with an inter-disciplinary profile, and a background in history, philosophy or social sciences.

The profile that we require needs to complement the focus of our current research group (literary and cultural studies). We would welcome a candidate with solid expertise in modern history, who is able to connect historical developments over the past three centuries to the analysis of contemporary cultural and social phenomena. The successful candidate is a recognized scholar, with teaching and research expertise in gender studies, and/or queer studies, ethnic studies, (post) colonial studies or age-studies. It is essential to have proven expertise in gender- related issues, with a sound knowledge of post-Enlightenment history in gender relations and emancipation struggles. She/he will have acquired an extensive international network in her/his field and is able or willing to develop research proposals for funding purposes.

The candidate is expected to:

deliver excellent research in her/his field;
develop a promising line of research in or related to the faculty’s focal point of research “Cultural Memory and Diversity”;
acquire funds for research in cooperation with colleagues from the Centre, as well as from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences;
teach intermediate and advanced courses in the Gender and Diversity program;
participate in the one-year Masters in Gender and Diversity Studies, initiated by the Centre.

For further information about the Centre have a look around our website.

The screening of applications will begin on May 1^st 2009. Applications can be emailed to pzfdcwvacatures@fdcw.unimaas.nl or posted to:
The Director,
Centre for Gender and Diversity,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
P.O. Box 616,
6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Please include a statement of teaching and research interests and experience, your proposals for acquisition of research funds, your CV, the names of two referees, reprints/pre-prints, and teaching evaluations (if available) with the application.

A gross salary of between € 3.827,00 and € 5.390,00 per month will be offered.

The screening committee is made up of:

Prof. Maaike Meijer, dr. Aagje Swinnen (CGD) Prof. Rein de Wilde, dr. Lies Wesseling (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)