Working Title:
Assistant Professor - Visual Culture
Department:School of Art, Art History & Design-1030
Requisition Number:F_240168
Posting Open Date:10/24/2024
Application Review Date: (To ensure consideration, please submit all application materials before review date):01/02/2025
Open Until Filled:Yes
Description of Work:The School of Art, Art History & Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in any area or region of art and visual culture between c. 700 and 1750, to begin on August 18, 2025. The ideal candidate will be an innovative teacher-scholar with expertise in the global dimensions of this era - including, but not limited to, the global Middle Ages, global early modernities, and histories of colonial encounters - and will join an innovative academic unit of thinkers and makers, including art, design, and emerging media arts practitioners. We welcome candidates who take transnational, cross-cultural, and/or interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching and who bring novel and inclusive perspectives to their work. This tenure-track position carries a 2/2 teaching load, and the University and College offers competitive grant opportunities for faculty research projects.
The selection committee will consider specialists in the art, design, performance, media, visual culture, or material culture in any region of the world. Since the candidate will play a role in initiating a new major in Visual Cultures & Public Practices, an interest in teaching a liberal-arts-based public practice course, whether in digital humanities, public humanities, cultural heritage, site-specific arts research, community arts programming, or other areas is desirable. In conjunction with helping to envision, co-create, and steward a program based in the liberal arts tradition that provides students with practical experience, the candidate will have the option to develop experiential learning opportunities, including study away or abroad.
The ideal candidate will have strategies to bring their knowledge and research interests alive for our 380+ art, design, and art history majors as well as for minors and non-majors. This position will teach courses to the whole of campus, including in our ACE (general education) sequence, and to STEM learners and all students across the Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts. An interest in histories of ceramics, design, and in bridging disciplines through visual communication, is particularly attractive for our expanding programs in these areas.
About the School
The School of Art, Art History & Design is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) with highly regarded and nationally ranked undergraduate and graduate fine arts programs. Being part of a leading land-grant research university offers our students learning opportunities across the humanities and sciences. The diversity of our educational programs, with their international activities, provides extraordinary historical and cultural engagement. Our students work closely with nationally and internationally recognized faculty to advance knowledge and culture.
The School of Art, Art History & Design is part of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts that, through its endowment, funds a visiting artists and scholars lecture series, scholarships, student and faculty travel, and research/creative activity.
Lincoln, Nebraska is more than a quintessential college community. The University is situated in a dynamic downtown area that includes the state capital and a growing tech industry as well as restaurants, coffee houses, movie theaters, clubs, bike trails, and urban residences. Lincoln has notably excellent public schools, a low cost of living, and has been nationally recognized for its high quality of life. It is a friendly, creative, intellectual, and vibrant community that loves the arts and is home to the Lied Center for Performing Arts, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the International Quilt Museum, the Nebraska State Museum with collections including anthropology, botany, and zoology, and the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, an art house cinema that is part of the College, as well as numerous alternative spaces and venues for visual art and music.
Duties and Responsibilities
Lincoln, NE
Criminal History Background Check Required:No
How to Apply:Click "Apply for this Job" and complete the faculty information form. Attach the following required documents:
Shelby Foged
shelby.foged@unl.edu
Faculty Tenure/Tenure Leading
Job Type:Full-Time
Position funded by grant or other form of temporary funding?:No
Planned Hire Date:08/18/2025
Organizational Location:Default Location
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