Central Washington University tenure-track assistant professor for biological anthropology

The Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies, in the College of the Sciences at Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor for biological anthropology, beginning Fall Quarter 2015.

The successful candidate will have expertise in paleoanthropology and/or human osteology. The new faculty member will participate in an interdisciplinary Forensics Certificate program currently under development. He or she will also be responsible for continuing several aspects of our existing curriculum such as: undergraduate classes on fossil humans, comparative skeletal analysis and primate evolution, General Education classes in biological anthropology, graduate courses and thesis advancement in the Resource Management and/or Primate Behavior master’s programs. The successful applicant must have an active research program and should describe how that program would involve undergraduate and graduate students. We seek an applicant who will be committed to working in a “four-field” department.

Ph.D. in hand at time of application.

Screening will begin Sept. 16, 2014 and continue until a candidate is selected. Applications received after Nov. 1, 2014 cannot be guaranteed full consideration; complete applications received prior to this date will be given priority consideration.

Please see a full job announcement, with required and preferred qualifications, on the CWU website at https://jobs.cwu.edu/postings/7139. All application materials must be submitted on-line through this website.

CWU is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or of protected veteran status. Please contact Human Resources at AskHr@cwu.edu or 509-963-1202 if you require technical assistance with the on-line application process.