Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Indigeneity Empires and Environment
Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Indigeneity Empires and Environment
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Job Description
Empires throughout history inclusive of but not limited to European imperialism fundamentally transformed nature and peoples relations to the environment. Changes to the land and ecosystems by Indigenous and colonizing societies were material but also conceptual technoeconomic and visual. Empires and critiques of them in their multiple manifestations have changed the way land water air plants (etc. were perceived known and represented as well as what social interventions were naturalized such as racialization enslavement and resource extraction.
We seek a scholar of art history visual culture and/or built environments whose research engages with any period within the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries whose scholarship cuts across political boundaries to consider the intersection of empire and ecosystems in the Americas Asia Africa and/or Oceania. Ideally this scholar brings some combination of ecocritical interspecies archival and/or archaeological methods to art historical research and teaching. This position would begin in Fall 2025 and run through theoracademic year.
The postdoctoral fellow will conduct research teach three courses per year and advise students at all levels.
About the Department and UT
The successful applicant will join a large and vibrant department in which 18 scholars pursue research sidebyside with practicing artists and art educators totaling nearly 50 tenure track and professionaltrack faculty. The art history program alone serves roughly 100 undergraduate majors and 50 MA and PhD students. For further information please visit us at.
The University of Texas at Austin is a flagship tierone research institution situated in Austin TX a city known for its vibrancy quality of life and active engagement in the arts. The University has been awarded the Seal of Excelencia designating it as a Hispanic Serving Institution.
- Ph.D in Art History or relevant cognate discipline conferred within the last three years
- A wide interest in the histories theories and methodologies of Art History
- Expertise in inter and crossdisciplinary thinking
- Experience teaching and mentoring students from many backgroundsat the college level
- Potential for research and publication in this area of specialization
Employment Type
Grant
