Assistant Teaching Professor

Submitted: 12/03/2025
Submitted By: Kelsey McIlwain
Department: School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Institution: Arizona State University
Job type: Full time
Apply by: 01/04/2026
Application Email:
Application URL: https://apply.interfolio.com/178352

Title: Assistant Teaching Professor
Location: Tempe Campus
Open Date: 12/03/2025

Job Details and Essential Duties:
The School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) (https://shesc.asu.edu) at Arizona State University (ASU) is inviting applications for a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor position. This is an annually renewable, fiscal year (12 months), career-track, non-tenure eligible appointment with full benefits through ASU, including health insurance and paid vacation and holidays. The position is located at ASU’s Tempe campus. The Assistant Teaching Professor should be in residence in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area during the appointment, to maintain an active on-campus presence, engaging meaningfully with faculty and students, participating in School activities, and contributing to SHESC’s vibrant intellectual life. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2026, with some flexibility.

Under the leadership of SHESC’s Director, Professor Patrick Ryan Williams, the Assistant Teaching Professor will contribute to the instructional mission of SHESC through an 80% teaching load in the undergraduate degree programs (exact course load will be determined by the school director or their designee) and will maintain a service load of 20% that may include service on unit and/or college committees and supporting student organizations related to one or more of SHESC’s six areas of focus:
● Global Health
● Environmental Social Science
● Evolutionary Anthropology
● Archaeology
● Bioarchaeology
● Sociocultural Anthropology

About the School of Human Evolution and Social Change
The School of Human Evolution and Social Change is recognized for its leadership in innovative, student-centered education. Home to one of the nation’s top-ranked anthropology programs, the school houses a large, transdisciplinary faculty, with anthropology at its core alongside scholars from related fields. Our teaching and scholarship emphasize long-term, comparative, and holistic perspectives on humanity—helping students understand and address complex global challenges.

We offer a dynamic, collegial, and vibrant work environment shaped by the pace of educational innovation, the breadth of our academic programs, and a strong culture of collaboration. SHESC is the largest social science unit in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences—ASU’s largest college—and serves more than 1,000 undergraduate majors and 200 graduate students. Our commitment to engaged, hands-on learning is reflected in the range of teaching experiences we offer, including in-person instruction, asynchronous online education, study abroad programs, field schools, and research apprenticeship opportunities. For complete information, visit http://shesc.asu.edu/.

About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large, curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.

About Arizona State University
ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter, ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.

Essential Functions:
● Contribute to SHESC’s undergraduate teaching mission in consultation with the SHESC Director. This includes teaching online courses that have already been developed as well as designing and developing new courses both independently and in collaboration with faculty.
● Advance SHESC’s leadership in instruction through transdisciplinary educational and career-related outcomes related to at least one or more of the areas of focus listed above.
● Contribute to SHESC’s mission of innovative teaching and instruction by disseminating best practices across the School's faculty and the broader academic community.

Required Qualifications:
● A PhD in Anthropology, Global Health, Environmental Social Science, Human Biology, or a related social sciences or health sciences field.
● Demonstrated experience teaching/mentoring students in one or more of the following: online asynchronous learning, in classroom, laboratory, or field settings.
● Demonstrated willingness to collaborate in the design and development of new classes
● Ability to work well independently and manage multiple tasks.

Desired Qualifications:
● Previous experience in advancing, assessing, and improving online educational materials.
● Strong written and verbal communication skills as evidenced by varied dissemination approaches for academic and non-academic audiences (e.g., science communication, social or public media, presentations, briefs, reports, journal articles).
● Ability to cross-teach and mentor students in anthropology and other programs offered across the School, such as global health, human biology, or environmental social science.
● Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty, staff, students and communities to advance the principles of ASU’s Charter.

Application Instructions:
The application deadline is January 4, 2026. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled. Candidates will be asked to create or use an existing Interfolio Dossier to submit the following:
1. A cover letter outlining how you meet the above qualifications,
2. A current Curriculum Vitae, and
3. One-page statement of teaching philosophy relevant to teaching opportunities and challenges at ASU, and
4. Evidence of teaching effectiveness (should include at least one of the following: quantitative data from student teaching evaluations, select quotes from student qualitative assessments from teaching evaluations, or letters or reports from colleagues or supervisors who have observed your teaching), and
5. Up-to-date contact information (including email addresses) for three (3) professional references. References may be contacted at a later stage of the search and only with the candidate’s approval.

To apply, please submit application materials electronically to https://apply.interfolio.com/178352.
General questions about this position may be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. Rhian Stotts: Rhian.Stotts@asu.edu

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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