Associate or Full Professor of History- Merrick Chair in Western American History (Tenured)

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Description The Department of History at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for the Merrick Chair in Western American History. The department seeks an outstanding scholar in any field or time period related to North American Wests, migrations, borderlands, and Indigenous homelands. The successful candidate will be expected to make a substantial contribution to the department’s graduate program in Western American history by actively mentoring graduate students and should be prepared to teach upper-division and graduate courses in Western history and the undergraduate US History Survey. The teaching load will be one course per semester while holding the endowed position. The appointment is expected to begin August 16, 2026. The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Carnegie-R1 comprehensive public research university known for excellence in teaching, research, and community engagement, serving the educational, cultural, economic, and healthcare needs of the state, region, and nation. OU enrolls more than 30,000 students and has more than 3000 full-time faculty members in 18 colleges. The University of Oklahoma is home to a 277-acre Research Campus in Norman that was named th...