Lecturer in History

Department OfHistory and Politics

Faculty Employment Opportunity

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Work type:
Instructional Faculty – Temporary Faculty.

Location:

Sonoma. Categories:
Temporary, Part Time, Instructional Faculty – Temporary Faculty. Unit 3 CFA – California Faculty Association. Department of History and Politics. Temporary Faculty Position (Lecturer).

Sonoma State University is a federally-designated Hispanic Serving Institution, as such we are committed to achieving the goals of equal opportunity and we endeavor to employ faculty and staff reflecting the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region and state.

Guided by our core values as a university: diversity, sustainability, community engagement, and adaptability, Sonoma State University (SSU) offers an education that fosters intellectual, social, and personal growth. SSU is a public liberal arts and sciences university. As the only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges in the state of California, we are committed to preparing students for a life of active citizenship and public service.

We have a vibrant campus life characterized by a lively co-curriculum that fosters broad-based intellectual and artistic opportunities in which the campus as a whole is actively engaged.

Sonoma State University is committed to creating a community in which bias and intolerance have no place. It is our expectation that all students, faculty, and staff work together to honor this commitment and hold each other accountable to create an open and inclusive environment.

We are committed to facilitating spaces in which all can grow by building on our students’ assets as they explore new knowledge. These efforts include fostering creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, experimentation, empathy, and communication. The successful candidate will be one who can collaborate with faculty, staff, administration, and students to achieve these goals. We are especially interested in candidates committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Department of History offers a 40-unit BA in history, with emphases in world history, European history, and the history of the Americas, in addition to courses with regional and thematic approaches. The department also offers an MA in history, with separate thesis and comprehensive exam tracks. Students graduate with discipline‑specific skills, including communication, critical thinking, and cultural competencies, which have clear value in a multi‑cultural professional world, and which contribute to the building of better local and global communities.

Departmental alumni pursue careers in fields that include law, government, teaching, journalism, business, academia, museum curatorship, librarianship, and the non‑profit sector, with some continuing their historical studies at the PhD level.

Faculty members in the department are active researchers and writers, who seek ways for their scholarship to inform their classroom activities and their university and community outreach, including museum curatorship and oral‑historical source generation. As one of the very first history departments in the United States to embrace world history, the department is distinguished by a longstanding commitment to diversity among its faculty members and in their scholarly interests and approaches.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to see the department’s web page at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Teach HIST 252:
History of the United States Since 1865, a lower‑division survey course examining major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in U.S. history from the end of Reconstruction to the present. Instruction will introduce students to key themes such as industrialization, race and citizenship, immigration, reform movements, war and foreign policy, the expansion of federal power, social inequality, and debates over democracy and national identity.

The successful candidate will design and deliver lectures and discussion‑based learning activities, assign and assess written work and examinations, and provide timely and constructive feedback to support…