Rustin-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art History

Job description

Description Whittier College seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow in art history, design history, or visual culture with teaching, research, and/or curatorial specialties inclusive of Afro-Latinx, Caribbean, Latin American, U.S. Latinx, Indigenous North American, or Art of the Americas, broadly conceived. Within this geographic framework, we seek a colleague focused primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries with the ability to provide historical framework inclusive of the impact of Colonialism in the Americas. The ideal candidate will want to collaborate in redesigning our Department curriculum and be able to contribute to the College’s interdisciplinary programs in Gender Studies, Environmental Studies, Latinx Studies, and/or African American studies, and/or the Art department’s Design major track. The goal of Whittier’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program is to move fellows into tenure-track lines by the time they have completed their fellowship. The Rustin-Mellon Fellow will therefore be eligible for a tenure-track appointment by the end of this three-year Mellon-funded postdoctoral fellowship (appointment is dependent a successful performance review). In the first three years, the Fellow’s r...