Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology

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Recruitment/Posting Title	Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology
Department	MGSA - Music
Salary	Commensurate With Experience
Posting Summary	The Department of Music of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in ethnomusicology at the level of Assistant Professor. We seek a specialist with interests in musical transnationalism and/or East Asian diasporic music. The successful candidate will teach courses including but not limited to ethnomusicology courses in the undergraduate major and non-major curriculum as well as ethnomusicology graduate seminars aligned with their research area. Other duties include supervision of adjunct instructors, graduate student research, as well as contributing to the university community and department by serving on committees and performing other services as needed. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active career of teaching, research, and publication. The appointment carries a full-time, ten-month contract.
Position Status	Full Time
Posting Number	23FA1350
Posting Open Date	11/09/2023
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Minimum Education and Experience	Minimum Education and Experience Ph.D. in ethnomusicology or related field.
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Overview	Housed in one of the leading public research universities on the East Coast, the Department of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts includes approximately 450 students and 100 total faculty, offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees (DMA and PhD) as well as an artist diploma across a comprehensive range of areas in performance, composition, conducting, jazz studies, music education, music theory, and musicology. Students perform, teach, refine their skills, and forge new paths in the arts through their scholastic and creative endeavors, engaging with faculty who are among the world’s leaders in their respective fields, including several who are drawn from the nearby New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. Students benefit from proximity to these two cultural hubs, with ensembles regularly performing in such venues as the Blue Note Jazz Club, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. Mason Gross School of the Arts, a vibrant community of artists and scholars with academic programs in music, theater, dance, filmmaking, and art & design, is committed to pursuing excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Its 1200 students reflect the diversity of New Jersey, the fourth most diverse state in the nation. In addition to its professional arts training programs, Mason Gross provides the larger community an opportunity to embrace the creative arts through its divisions of Rutgers Arts Online and Rutgers Community Arts. The school is housed within Rutgers-New Brunswick, a premier Big Ten research university that serves some 50,000 students and is the flagship campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The nation’s eighth oldest institution of higher learning, Rutgers is less than an hour by train or car to New York City and the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore and just over an hour to Philadelphia. Additional information is available at the school website: https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu .
Statement	Mason Gross School of the Arts is deeply committed to the pursuit of equity, diversity, inclusion, and access and especially encourages applications from women, underrepresented minorities, and other individuals who belong to groups that have been historically underrepresented or marginalized within higher education and the arts. Also see the Rutgers Non-Discrimination Statement at the following web address: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement .

Posting Details

Special Instructions to Applicants	This position is a full-time, ten-month academic appointment. Please provide (1) a cover letter, (2) curriculum vitae, and (3) the names and contact information for three references. For questions, email Lisa Passalacqua at [email protected] . Review will begin January 25, 2024, and continue until the position is filled.
Quick Link to Posting	https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/218088
Campus	Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Home Location Campus	Douglass (RU-New Brunswick)
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