Rutgers University - New Brunswick, History

Assistant Professor, Public History

The Department of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in Public History to begin in fall 2024. The department welcomes applications from candidates who work in all regional fields and time periods but is particularly interested in scholars who work in the areas of historical memory, historic preservation, museum work, oral history, or digital humanities. A PhD in History is required; candidates must have received their degree by the start of the appointment.

Applicants should have a strong research agenda in public history including publications in peer-reviewed venues and/or exhibits or other public-oriented projects in digital or physical format. The successful candidate will teach a range of public history courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in addition to courses in their own area of specialization and will contribute to the department’s undergraduate certificate program in public history and the graduate certificate program in the Public Humanities of the School of Arts and Sciences. This position will help support the School’s Public Humanities Initiative. The ideal candidate should be able to collaborate with existing Rutgers public history resources, such as the Rutgers Oral History Archive or the Scarlet and Black Research Center, to create projects that bring students, faculty and local organizations together to preserve and reflect on the past in ways that highlight the diversity of the New Brunswick community. 

Applicants should upload by OCTOBER 1, 2023 the following materials to https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/207770: a cover letter addressed to Professor Jennifer Mittelstadt, Search Committee Chair; a CV; brief statements on research and teaching; the names and e-mail addresses of three referees; and an article-length writing sample directly relevant to public history. The cover letter and the research and teaching statements should explain the candidate’s training in, experience with and commitments to public history.   

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, military service or any other category protected by law.  As an institution, we value diversity of background and opinion, and prohibit discrimination or harassment on the basis of any legally protected class in the areas of hiring, recruitment, promotion, transfer, demotion, training, compensation, pay, fringe benefits, layoff, termination or any other terms or conditions of employment.