Assistant Professor of Anthropology - Tenure Track

Overview

Assistant Professor of Anthropology - Tenure Track

FACULTY VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) and an internationally recognized leader in educating for justice. Led by President Karol V. Mason, John Jay is a federally designated Hispanic-serving institution, it is ranked third in the nation in Black student success, and it is a top ten institution for promoting student social mobility.

John Jay serves a diverse student body of 15,000 students, including many first-generation college students and students from immigrant and historically underrepresented groups.

The College participates in the doctoral programs of the Graduate Center of CUNY and offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in traditional criminal justice-related fields as well as liberal arts and sciences programs that highlight themes of justice across the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The College seeks staff and faculty members who thrive in multicultural academic environments and are committed to access and excellence in higher education.

Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Medical or Social/Cultural Anthropology. The Department of Anthropology at John Jay College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning in August 2026.

John Jay College has a long-standing reputation for scholarly and public engagement on issues related to social justice. The Anthropology Department houses two undergraduate majors: (1) Anthropology and (2) Deviance, Crime, and Culture. We seek a scholar who can contribute meaningfully to both majors and expand curricular offerings and research strengths in areas such as Medical Anthropology, Global Health and Justice, and/or Technology and Justice.

The geographic area is open; we welcome candidates who expand departmental expertise beyond the United States.

We particularly encourage applications from scholars whose work addresses pressing contemporary issues through critical and engaged anthropology. Areas of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Health, disease, and the politics of normality and abnormality
• Global health inequities and their intersections with race, gender, and class
• Climate change, migration, war, and other intersecting crises
• Technological infrastructures of militarization, surveillance, and control
• Embodied experiences of overlapping planetary crises
• Artificial Intelligence and Anthropology

Applicants should demonstrate a strong theoretical orientation, which may include decolonial and abolitionist frameworks, critical medical anthropology, feminist science and technology studies, the anthropology of the Anthropocene, or other emergent approaches addressing injustice and power.

The department is especially interested in candidates whose leadership, research, teaching, and community engagement reflect John Jay’s mission to advance justice and serve a diverse student population. We are a small, collaborative department of nine (9) full-time faculty, two (2) substitute faculty, and a large adjunct community. We value pedagogical creativity, collaborative scholarship, and commitment to student success.

Responsibilities include maintaining an active research and publication agenda; teaching undergraduate courses in anthropology and related programs; mentoring a diverse student body; supervising research; and contributing to departmental, college and university service. Candidates are expected to bring enthusiasm and demonstrated commitment to teaching and to develop and maintain an active research and publication agenda. The successful candidate must be eager and qualified to work with a diverse student body.

As described in the College’s policy on culturally responsive, inclusive, and anti-racist curriculum, the faculty member is expected to thrive in a multicultural, collaborative academic environment and to contribute to access and excellence in higher education.

A Ph.D. in Anthropology is strongly preferred. ABD candidates will be considered as long as they receive their doctoral degree…