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Program Coordinator

Princeton University · Princeton, New Jersey, US

Overview The Effron Center for the Study of America (EFF) at Princeton University is pleased to announce a new minor in Native American and Indigenous studie...

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Overview The Effron Center for the Study of America (EFF) at Princeton University is pleased to announce a new minor in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAI) and is seeking a Program Coordinator to join its growing unit. This new academic program aims to address the multifaceted histories and contemporary issues related to Native American and other Indigenous peoples, while fostering rigorous scholarship and meaningful community engagement. It is grounded in a Native American and Indigenous studies framework that centers Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, and cultural continuity, while critically examining the impact of historical violence and dispossession, as well as ongoing settler colonialism. Under the direction of the NAI Program Director and EFF Executive Director, the program coordinator will handle day-to-day needs required to support NAI course management, student academic needs, event programming and communications, and longer-term curricular planning. The Program Coordinator will be expected to: - handle each semester's NAI course management needs, including course set up, faculty course preparation and class needs, student needs, keeping abreast of a...