[Via H-Net, we learn of the following announcement. DRE]
The Department of History at Rhodes College invites applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor in the history of the nineteenth- or early twentieth-century American South on a 12-month contract, to begin August 2024.
The College recently received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create an Institute for Race and Social Transformation that supports scholarship and teaching around issues of race and injustice in Memphis and the Mid-South region. The successful candidate will coordinate the Justice and Remembrance Project, a digital history project that involves working with two local community partners—one that marks the sites of lynching victims in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee (Lynching Sites Project of Memphis) and the other an organization committed to preserving a large historic Black cemetery (Zion Community Project).
Qualified candidates will have training in history, Africana Studies, or a related discipline and will be able to offer courses in at least two of the following areas: lynching and racial violence, law and justice, the Jim Crow era, public history, digital history, or public memory/monuments. As important, the successful candidate must be committed to advancing their own scholarship in the context of a liberal arts college, strengthening the college’s partnerships with the above community organizations, and teaching and mentoring undergraduate students. Candidates must have completed all requirements for a Ph.D. in History, Africana Studies, or a related field by August 2024.
