Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, División de Historia

Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Modern Mexican and/or History of the Americas

Applications are invited for the post of a tenure track assistant professor in modern Mexican and/or history of the Americas in the División de Historia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), based in the Región Centro campus in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Candidates should be available to take up the post in August 2014. Preferred candidates will have a research agenda linked to any of the following sub-disciplines: economic history, environmental history, regional comparative history, borderlands history, historical demography and geography, or digital history. Candidates must have completed their Ph.D. degree before 1^st August 2014.

CIDE is an institute for research in social sciences with both national and international prestige. Campus Región Centro was founded in 2011 and today it offers a bachelor degree program in Government and Public Finance, a Master’s degree in Regional and Environmental Economics, and two Interdisciplinary Study Programs, one in Drug Policy, and the other in Regional Studies. The successful candidate will be expected to collaborate in one or more of these programs, as well as in the International History Master’s degree offered by the División de Historia. The candidate will be able to benefit from the proximity of the Instituto Nacional de Geografía Estadística e Informática (INEGI) and the Fondo de Información y Documentación para la Industria de México (INFOTEC), which are based in the city of Aguascalientes.

Candidates must send the following documents in PDF format to the address below before 31 March 2014: a covering letter; three references and some written assessments of their teaching skills (if they have them); an example of their written work (for example, a published or accepted article, or a book chapter or Ph.D. thesis chapter); and a project outlining their future plans for research and teaching.

Search Committee

División de Historia

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

Carretera México-Toluca #3655

Colonia Lomas de Santa Fe

México, D.F. 01210

México

Tel. (0052) 5557279826

Correo electrónico: luis.barron@cide.edu / janet.rodriguez@cide.edu