The University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for a tenure-track/tenured appointment as assistant or associate professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. We seek a colleague with a well-established record of research and pedagogy that focuses on Black Feminisms and/or Black Queer and Sexuality Studies and/or Black Women’s Studies.
The successful applicant will be expected to teach courses in their area of expertise as well as to share in teaching the core undergraduate and graduate courses in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The scholar in this position will have the opportunity to contribute to building departmental strengths and emphases, including teaching in the minor in Black Women’s Studies, as well as our curricula at the graduate and undergraduate levels. They will also be expected to participate actively in the life of the Department and the University.
We welcome all areas of specialization. However, a successful candidate will have a distinguished record of research and scholarship in the areas of Black Feminisms and/or Black Queer and Sexuality Studies and/or Black Women’s Studies, a demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching, and an aptitude for mentoring graduate students in an interdisciplinary program. Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree is required. Rank at appointment will be commensurate with evidence of experience and expertise.
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland is recognized as one of the leading programs in its field within the United States and beyond. In addition to the B.A., Ph.D., and graduate certificate, our department offers undergraduate minors in WGSS, LGBTQ Studies, and Black Women’s Studies (offered jointly with the Department of African American and Africana Studies).
The Department hosts a vibrant community of scholars whose work reflects a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise. Our areas of strength include: Black women’s studies, Black feminist thought, and intersectionality; race and racialization, critical ethnic and diasporic studies, and anti-caste studies; arts, media, cultural, and literary studies; feminist science and technology studies, digital studies, and digital humanities; sexual cultures, queer and trans studies, and queer of color critique; transnational feminisms and global gender justice; Indigenous knowledge systems and Indigenous feminisms; and disability studies and health justice. We seek candidates whose work resonates with one or more of these areas and who are eager to contribute to ongoing departmental conversations about power, relationality, and transformative justice. We also welcome candidates whose work opens new directions or complements existing strengths in ways that deepen our shared commitments.
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies maintains a long-standing intellectual and institutional commitment to addressing the structural dynamics of race, racialization, and social injustice. We view the mentoring and training of graduate and undergraduate students as essential to transforming the power structures of the academy and cultivating more equitable futures. In alignment with the College of Arts and Humanities’ strategic commitments to transformative thinking, we continually challenge ourselves to build curricula, research agendas, and public-facing programs that are anti-racist, trans-inclusive, non-ableist, and grounded in the complexity of lived experience. We invite applicants to show how their research, teaching, and service reflect these principles, and how they contribute to building more just, creative, and connected worlds through feminist and interdisciplinary inquiry.
Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or a related field is required.
Established record of research and scholarship in the areas of Black Feminisms and/or Black Queer and Sexuality Studies and/or Black Women’s Studies
Aptitude for mentoring graduate students in an interdisciplinary program
If there are other forms of work or URLs related to their work that candidates want the committee to consider, applicants have the option of submitting a single PDF file with a representative sample .
$90,000-$110,000
For best consideration, please ensure that all application materials are uploaded by December 01 2025.
Inquiries may be sent to the chair of the search committee, Professor Michelle V. Rowley, at mrowley1@umd.edu . Applications must be submitted online via the job posting in Workday .
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