SMU #50366 Lecturer in Anthropology
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Job Location:
Dallas, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position No. . The Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University Dallas Texas invites applications for a career track Lecturer in cultural anthropology. The position will start August 1 2026 and is renewable in future years with possibilities for advancement on the Lecturer track. Typical teaching load is 4:4 teaching load with no contractual obligations for research or service. This is a renewable position with a promotional ladder. Teaching will be largely undergraduate with some graduate level teaching possibilities. Teaching faculty have access to internal conference funds and competitive research funds upon submission and approval.
Southern Methodist University is a secular R-1 University growing in exciting ways with a new $100 million Moody Graduate School offering enhancements for our graduate students and faculty a new $30 million Peter ODonnell Data Science Institute and a new membership in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) for college athletics. We have an intellectually vibrant community of internationally recognized scholars across the humanities social sciences mathematical sciences engineering law fine arts and business. SMU offers excellent Anthropology our faculty advance intellectual frontiers both ancient and modern through groundbreaking interdisciplinary research innovative teaching and community outreach aimed at bringing insight and understanding to issues around global health and development migration and borderland communities and human impacts on and responses to environmental challenges. Anthropology has long been one of the strongest programs at SMU and we have one of the oldest graduate medical anthropology programs in the U.S. Our undergraduate Masters and PhD-level programs help students build a complex understanding of difference critical thinking and global reach to best prepare them for life after graduation in academia and industry. Faculty currently hold competitive federal research grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation among others.
The City of Dallas is one of the nations most cosmopolitan commercial and cultural centers and the DallasFort Worth metroplex is the fourth largest in the US. SMU faculty enjoy a relatively low cost of living despite easy access to two major airports a full range of cultural offerings professional sports teams and a lively and innovative restaurant scene. Explore Dedman College at and SMU at .
We are looking for a cultural anthropologist to complement existing department teaching strengths that include: environment health economics and heritage. The ideal candidate will have a track record of excellence in teaching. Candidates should have PhD in hand by August 1 2026.
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