(Updated Application Deadline Date) Assistant Professor – Biological Anthropology

Submitted: 02/11/2025
Submitted By: Brian Hoffman
Department: Anthropology
Institution: Hamline University
Job type: Department chair
Apply by: 03/01/2025
Application Email:
Application URL: https://hamline.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Faculty_Career_Site/job/Assistant-Professor—Humans–Environments–and-Climate_R0001082-1

The Anthropology Program in the Department of Humans, Environments, and Climate at Hamline University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biological anthropology to begin fall 2025. Our preferred candidate will be able to enhance our departmental strengths in applied anthropology, community-engaged research, and climate studies. We encourage applications from biological anthropologists whose work engages living communities, fieldwork in the global south, ongoing debates about repatriation of human remains, or negotiations of history, ethnicity and race. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment as a scholar-educator to the liberal arts and interdisciplinary education and will be able to help our students develop in completing public-facing research, learning to work across diverse communities and cultures, and engaging in knowledge-based advocacy.
Candidates must be familiar with biocultural approaches in anthropology and be willing to teach a wide variety of classes that are the hallmark of work in a small liberal arts college. Required courses include human osteology (with a lab), forensic anthropology, introduction to anthropology, and topics classes in biological anthropology.

We are excited about prospective colleagues who also:
Are committed to teaching excellence
Demonstrate record of supporting students from diverse backgrounds
Engage in and mentor students through research and in internships
Have an active and productive research agenda
Are interested in engaging in shared governance and providing service to the college, university, and their community.

Tenure-track faculty typically teach six courses per academic year. Assistant faculty get one course reduction during the first year and a three-course release after a successful 3rd year review. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Anthropology or a closely related field ABD applicants with expected defense dates by August 30th, 2025, will also be considered.