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History Non-Tenure Track Vacancy Pool

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The Department of History at Western Washington University consists of twenty tenured or tenure-track faculty whose courses serve a very active history major and make significant contributions to the university's general education curriculum.  History courses cover nearly every historical era and much of the globe.  The department encourages its faculty to participate in interdisciplinary programs such as East Asian Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; International Studies; Latin American Studies; Canadian-American Studies; and the Honors program.  Faculty in the department provide high quality courses that prepare majors and non-majors with skills in research, analysis and writing.  The department likewise houses a small M.A. program in History and a nationally recognized M.A. program in Archives and Records Management.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the History Department support Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The Department of History maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary or limited-term teaching positions.

• Graduate degree in an appropriate field.
• Demonstrated potential for effective teaching.
• Demonstrated potential to work effectively with a diverse campus community, including a commitment to cultivating equitable learning environments for all students.

• PhD or ABD in an appropriate field.
• Demonstrated successful teaching experience.

All employees must comply with our Immunization policies, including Proof of Rubeola Measles Immunity within 60-days of hire. Please reach out to HR@wwu.edu if you need information regarding medical or religious exemption and applicable accommodations.

Commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Benefits Information

United Faculty of Western Washington

Please submit your application via WWU's PageUp system.

Required application materials:

1. A letter of application along with a C.V., addressing the required and preferred qualifications
2. A graduate transcript (official or unofficial)
3. Article or chapter-length writing sample
4. Sample syllabi for a survey course and an upper-division course
5. Names and contact information for three professional references

This vacancy pool is refreshed annually; please see applicable close date information below. Applicants who continue to remain interested in being considered for on-going opportunities should re-submit updated materials to the new pool, once posted.

Applications are accepted continuously for potential NTT faculty openings; please apply at your earliest convenience. Vacancy pool closes November 30, 2025.

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