Public Humanities Teaching Fellow

Department: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

Public Humanities Teaching Fellow

The Public Humanities Teaching Fellowship is a two-year full-time position (with possibility of contract renewal), based at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. The fellow will gain significant experience in public humanities work as it intersects with higher education. The fellow will be expected to lead a collaborative team designing and running our Public Humanities Graduate Practicum, a yearlong program that supports graduate students pursuing public-facing humanities work. The Practicum includes an ongoing series of career development workshops for graduate students that the fellow will be expected to coordinate. They will also be expected to design and teach two courses each year at the undergraduate or graduate level with a public humanities theme. The fellow will be assisted in the work of the Practicum and its associated workshops by a Kaplan graduate assistant in the public humanities. The fellow will gain valuable exposure to the operations of the Institute and its programs. They will liaise with other public humanities and career development stakeholders on- and off-campus, including the Graduate School, the Center for Civic Engagement, Northwestern Career Advancement, Humanities Without Walls, Northwestern Prison Education Program, and others. Disciplinary background is open within the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Please provide a cover letter that explains your interest in and qualifications for the position, your CV that includes any relevant work and teaching experience, a 2-3 page research statement and a writing sample (article or chapter-length). Two letters of reference should be sent separately.

Please contact Tom Burke with questions thomas.burke@northwestern.edu

Application review will begin 2/1/25 and will remain open until filled. Anticipated start date is September 1, 2025.

The application and application instructions can be found at https://wcms.northwestern.edu/entity/open.act?id=514b85918169777821eaad7397c98cf3&type=page

Salary

The expected base pay range for this position is $62,000 - $67,000.

This base pay range is for a nine-month academic appointment, does not include summer salary, and is subject to negotiation.

Northwestern University has provided a pay range representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for the position. The pay offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors including (but not limited to) the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate including years since terminal degree, training, and field or discipline; departmental budget availability; internal equity; and external market pay for comparable jobs.

Benefits

At Northwestern, we are proud to provide meaningful, competitive, high-quality health care plans, retirement benefits, tuition discounts and more! Visit us at https://www.northwestern.edu/hr/benefits/index.html to learn more.

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Please read ALL instructions and make preparations before proceeding to the application page:

• Applications will only be accepted via online submission (see link below).
• Please prepare all documents in advance as Adobe PDF files, and please be sure all information is entered correctly and accurately (especially names and email addresses), as there will be no opportunity for online revision after your application has been submitted.
• Please also prepare a list of names and email addresses for your external academic references; your references will be contacted directly by the online system and invited to upload their letters on your behalf.
• All required fields in the application form are marked with an asterisk and must be filled before clicking the "Submit" button.
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The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations. We acknowledge and honor the original people of the land upon which Northwestern University stands, and the Native people who remain on this land today.

Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Click for information on EEO is the Law.