Assistant Professor of History

Current Pierce College Tenured and Permanent Status Faculty Priority Deadline is 1 week before the posted closing date.
Join our Racial Equity-Centered College! Pierce College District is student-centered and mission-driven to ensure that all our students thrive and reach their fullest potential. As an institution committed to antiracism, we are action-oriented and intentional in dismantling every systemic barrier that prevents Black and Brown student excellence and liberation. As Pierce College deepens its commitment to racial equity, it is of the highest priority that we focus our tenure‑track and permanent status faculty hiring process to seek faculty with the expertise to lead our institution in serving Black and Brown students.

This cluster hire is an opportunity for the college community to continue to act upon our values but more importantly for the empowering of our students' self‑efficacy, for cultivating sense of belonging, and for the diversity of our entire student body, especially Black and Brown students, being reflected in a position of power in the classroom. We are excited to invite you to bring your lived experiences and authentic selves to contribute to discourse and action in supporting Black and Brown students.

The History Department is seeking a collaborative colleague to join a dynamic team of faculty who serve a diverse student population in US Survey, World Civilizations, and the Pacific Northwest History coursework. Both in and outside the classroom the department has been essential in supporting the College’s work in dismantling racial equity barriers. Outside the classroom you will often find the history faculty members developing and delivering programming in partnership with our Equity, Diversity, Inclusion – College Access, Retention, and Engagement Services (EDI CARES) and facilitating college‑wide communities of practice, such as “The History We Never Learned in School”.

To further build our history department we are seeking a North American historian who specializes in a historically minoritized people with special preference for scholars of Indigenous North American history.

Pierce College is an innovative community college striving to re‑envision our institution through an antiracist framework to advance equity in student engagement and learning. We value student learning experiences that foster inclusion and intercultural engagement in the classroom and that expand into our local and global communities. Faculty, staff, and administrators work collaboratively to lead initiatives that advance equitable student success: from closing areas of inequity to building guided career pathways.

The college serves over 15,000 students in basic skills, transfer, and professional technical programs. Through continuous efforts, we have improved retention rates by 17% and graduation rates by 89%. This year, Pierce was again named a top community college by several national organizations. Pierce College employees and students live and work in various communities that offer the diverse cultural and environmental benefits of rural, suburban, and urban lifestyles in the Pacific Northwest.

As part of the community and technical college system in Washington State, the District includes Pierce College Fort Steilacoom, Pierce College Puyallup, Pierce College at Joint Base Lewis‑McChord, as well as other extended learning sites.

• Designing and teaching a variety of courses in the department, specifically United States Survey, Pacific Northwest History, and World Civilizations courses, in a manner that promotes Black and Brown excellence.
• Creating race‑conscious course assessments and evaluations, assessing data, and engaging in continuous improvement of courses based on that analysis in order to advance student achievement of outcomes, success in subsequent courses, and impact on retention, graduation, and successful transition to employment or further education.
• Continuously innovating inclusive pedagogy and active learning experiences (campus, online, hybrid) in response to assessment and evidence/data analysis.
• Demonstrating…