The University of Alabama History Department invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in U.S. Legal/Constitutional History, time period and research specialization open. The successful candidate will be expected to teach US Constitutional History to and from 1877, in addition to upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in their areas of expertise and the American Civilization survey. The Department and the University emphasizes excellence in teaching as well as scholarship. Ph.D. must be in hand by time of appointment. To apply, go to http://facultyjobs.ua.edu/postings/41799 and complete the online application. Attach a letter of application, vita, and an article-length writing sample. Please arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to Dr. Lesley J. Gordon, Search Committee, Department of History, Box 870212, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0212. Please direct any inquiries to ljgordon1@ua.edu. Review of applications will begin Nov. 15, 2017, and continue until the position is filled.
The University of Alabama is an Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities/Equal Opportunity employer. Women, Hispanics, African-American and other minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. More details are here.
Tuscaloosa is a great place to be these days — as I've said about my own move from Chapel Hill to Tuscaloosa earlier this year, we're the fastest growing flagship state university in the country. We have nearly 40,000 students and about 1200 faculty across all disciplines. The University is shockingly well resourced and we're expanding the size of departments all across campus. Obviously for anyone interested in American legal history (but especially the legal history of race in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) there are fantastic archives all over the state (and even in Tuscaloosa and at the University itself) that are far too rarely used by scholars outside the state. There's a lot of great work to be done here, in terms of scholarship and activism. This is a great opportunity to join a terrific history department and the law school, which is strongly interdisciplinary, is just a few blocks away.
Al, Alabama is also doing two searches in Gender and Race Studies and three searches in Political Science.