Open Call for Indigenous Applicants: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Indigenous Visual Culture Program

Job title:

Open Call for Indigenous Applicants: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Indigenous Visual Culture Program

Company

OCAD University

Job description

This opportunity is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as Indigenous Peoples of North America, including those who identify as First Nations (status, non-status, treaty or non-treaty), Métis, Inuit, or Alaska Native, Native American, and Native Hawaiian Peoples.

This initiative is a special program under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

OCAD University (OCAD U) acknowledges the ancestral and traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinabek and the Huron-Wendat, who are the original owners and custodians of the land on which we stand and create.

, Canada’s university of the imagination, provides a vibrant and creative environment for faculty and students. This is an important time to join the Indigenous community at OCADU as the University continues the implementation of its academic plan that holds as its first guiding principle, decolonization.

Indigenous Visual Culture (INVC) is a robust Indigenous art and design program grounded in culturally-specific ways of knowing and being. We are seeking Indigenous candidates for a Tenure-Track position in Visual Culture and Curatorial Practice.

The Indigenous Visual Culture (INVC) program at OCAD University combines interdisciplinary studio-based learning with courses in the visual, cultural, social and political histories of Indigenous peoples. The INVC program hosts a dynamic array of courses taught by Indigenous art scholars who ground their pedagogy and praxis within ancestral knowledge. Our program commits to bringing Indigenous ways of knowing and making into the future.

The Indigenous Visual Culture (INVC) program is located within the Faculty of Arts & Science (FAS), a place of deep engagement in interdisciplinarity, and profound commitment to social justice that is vital to every OCADU student’s curriculum.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach at all undergraduate levels, to maintain an active research profile, to contribute to the ongoing development of the INVC curriculum in the areas of Indigenous futurisms and critical writing on Indigenous art, and to participate in other activities that contribute to the thoughtful and accountable bringing of Indigenous knowledges into the university. This position is expected to begin August 1, 2024, and is subject to budgetary approval.

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

The successful candidate will:

• Develop and teach a variety of undergraduate courses in art history and curatorial practice in the Indigenous Visual Culture undergraduate program
• Teach two or more of the following classes: Issues in Indigenous Curating, Turtle Island Visual Culture, A History of the Métis, Global Views: Indigenous Art, and Issues in Inuit Art
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the undergraduate curriculum in Indigenous Visual Culture and where appropriate, contribute to graduate education
• Maintain a research profile and professional activities in their areas of expertise
• Participate in Faculty and University governance, and in a variety of service and outreach initiatives that contribute to the University community and its mission

QUALIFICATIONS:

The successful candidate should have:

• PhD in Indigenous Studies, Art History or related discipline with a specialization in current aesthetic, theoretical, axiological and methodological concerns of Indigenous works, traditions and perspectives. Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered, including official community recognition of Indigenous knowledge keeper status, and a record of peer recognized contributions to scholarship and/or professional discipline, and community, knowledge production and dissemination
• Ability to demonstrate how lived experience and community responsibilities inform the candidate’s work
• A proven record of creative community activism, professional practice and/or collaborations relevant to Indigenous art and design
• A demonstrated record of research, scholarship and publication
• Evidence of positive post-secondary teaching experience or ability
• A lived experience and a solid theoretical understanding of Indigenous epistemologies in this program
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment, with outstanding communication, interpersonal and time management skills
• Demonstrated understanding of the ways in which equity, Indigenous knowledge, and sustainability are fundamental to the quality of student experience, to innovative scholarship, and to art production
• A proven record of promoting a respectful and inclusive work and learning environment for students, staff, and faculty
• Experience in innovative curriculum development in a degree-granting art and design institution is an asset

REMUNERATION:

Salary and rank will be commensurate with experience and qualifications with access to full benefits and pension contribution after one year of service.

APPLICANT DEADLINE:

Applications should include: * A letter outlining your interests in the areas of teaching, research/practice, and service;

• A curriculum vitae;
• And the names of three references.

Interested applicants are invited to submit their application in confidence, addressed to the Chair of the Tenure-Track, Indigenous Visual Culture Program Search Committee, Faculty of Arts & Science online by clicking the “Apply Now” button below.

The review of applications will begin on February 4, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled.

As an institution committed to art, design, digital media and related scholarship, OCAD University (OCAD U) recognizes the profound and essential value that diversity brings to the creation, reception and circulation of creative practices and discourse. OCAD U understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are essential to, and enrich the institution’s core mission and vision as an art and design university with a local and global scope.

As an employer committed to employment equity, we encourage applications from members of equity-seeking communities including women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.

We encourage members of equity-seeking groups to self-identify within the voluntary Applicant Questionnaire

In order to alleviate the under-representation of Indigenous tenured/tenure-track faculty, this opportunity is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as Indigenous Peoples of North America or Peoples of Turtle Island, including those who identify as First Nations (status, non-status, treaty or non-treaty), Métis, Inuit, or Alaskan Native, Native American, and Native Hawaiian Peoples. This initiative is a special program under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

As defined by the United Nations Special Rapporteur to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, OCAD University recognizes that “Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasions and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing in those territories, or parts of them. They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems.”

OCAD University is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier free experience to applicants with accessibility needs. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage during the recruitment process. Please People & Culture for more information or refer to

All qualified persons are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. While we thank all candidates for their interest, only those short-listed will be contacted.

Expected salary

Location

Ontario

Job date

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:16:26 GMT

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