Faculty Position/Akinamaagake – Indigenous Studies

Monitoring Code: req932
College/Division: College of Social Science and Humanities
Appointment Sort: Tenured and Tenure-Monitor, Full-time Persevering with
Variety of Positions: 1
Wage Grade: Administered in accordance with the Collective Settlement
Posting Date: November 20, 2023
Software Evaluate Date: January 9, 2024 or till an acceptable candidate is discovered

Ontario Tech College (College of Ontario Institute of Know-how), situated in Oshawa, Ontario, is proud to encourage an interactive, information-sharing tradition for our particular person workers, and groups which improve organizational effectiveness. Ontario Tech’s revolutionary applications, and technology-enriched studying setting create an environment of educational excellence. Ontario Tech promotes social engagement, fosters essential pondering, and integrates outcomes-based studying experiences inside and out of doors the classroom. We invite you to think about becoming a member of Ontario Tech’s globally skilled college as we additional our repute for offering a modern studying setting and delivering revolutionary analysis.

Software Evaluate Date: January 9, 2024 or till an acceptable candidate is discovered

Situated in Oshawa, Ontario, Ontario Tech College promotes social engagement, fosters essential pondering, and prides itself on educating and analysis excellence throughout disciplines. We invite you to think about becoming a member of Ontario Tech College as we proceed to boost our repute as a frontrunner of technologically enhanced educating and studying and globally acknowledged revolutionary analysis.

Ontario Tech College is located on the Conventional Territory of the Michi Saagiig, a department of the better Anishinaabeg Nation which incorporates Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi and acknowledges the lands and other people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation as we work in direction of reconciliation and Indigenization. The College of Social Science and Humanities (FSSH) is looking for an Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit) scholar for a full-time tenure-track OR teaching-only appointment on the degree of Assistant Professor. To deal with the underrepresentation of Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit) peoples in academia, the popular candidate for this chance will probably be a person who self-identifies as Indigenous.

Analysis specialization in any space of the social sciences and humanities will probably be thought-about. The College presently has main applications in Criminology, Communication & Digital Media Research, Authorized Research, Liberal Research, Political Science, and Common & Forensic Psychology, in addition to specialised minor applications in Indigenous Research and Sustainability. The College encourages collaborative and interdisciplinary educating and analysis. The profitable candidate could have the chance to contribute to the brand new interdisciplinary Grasp’s program in Social Observe and Innovation, or one of many different graduate applications in Criminology and Psychology.

Whereas Ontario Tech College is on the early levels of the reconciliation and Indigenization course of, the college is dedicated to supporting Indigenous students, workers, and college students; growing understanding among the many college neighborhood round Indigenous worldviews and data programs; and constructing neighborhood with the encompassing Indigenous nations. Extra data may be discovered on the Indigenous Training and Cultural Companies web site.

The College lately launched an Indigenous Research minor, which presents programs corresponding to: Introduction to Indigenous Research: Colonial Historical past and its Impacts on Indigenous Peoples; (Re)Membering Reciprocal Relations); Historical past and Tales of the Michi Saagiig and Haudenosaunee in Southern Ontario; Indigenous Digital and Visible Media; and, Modern Indigenous Literature.
• Candidates with a graduate diploma in a related self-discipline is most well-liked. Candidates with different equal {qualifications} or community-based expertise are inspired to use.
• The perfect candidate will display capability to contribute to the Indigenous Research Minor.
• The profitable candidate should self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit). Ontario Tech College acknowledges that there are a selection of phrases used to embody the folks of Turtle Island, together with those that determine as standing and non-status First Nations, Métis, Inuk (Inuit), Alaska Native, Native American, and Native Hawaiian folks. Please embrace this in your cowl letter.

The profitable candidate will probably be anticipated to have a workload that contributes to a mixture of Instructing and/or Analysis and/or Service every year. Candidates who’ve vital community-based roles or service in Indigenous communities and/or related tutorial analysis contributions are inspired to use. The stability of workload expectations will probably be decided by way of session with the profitable candidate.

Candidates ought to submit in digital format: (1) a overlaying letter; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) an announcement of educating philosophy (1 web page); (4) an overview of their current analysis program (1 web page), if relevant; 5-year analysis plan (1 web page), if relevant; and the names of three referees (the search committee will solely contact referees for reference letters within the case of the candidate being shortlisted). Shortlisted candidates will submit a writing pattern and educating evaluations (if accessible).

The popular candidate will probably be Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit) and/or have lived expertise as a member of an Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit) neighborhood inside Turtle Island. Within the overlaying letter, candidates are invited to self-identify and share their relationship with and dedication to Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit) communities inside Turtle Island; we perceive that such relationships and communities can take many types. Applicant self-identification data will probably be used for the needs of screening and consideration. Please notice that this data will probably be securely accessed solely by members of the choice committee.

Candidates ought to submit their purposes in digital format (as a single pdf file) to the Ontario Tech College Human Sources web site. For questions or inquiries in regards to the place, please contact Peter Stoett, Dean of College of Social Science and Humanities, [email protected].

Place begin date: July 1, 2024
Job Location : Oshawa, Ontario, Canada (Take away work could also be permitted)
This place falls inside the bargaining unit represented by the UOIT College Affiliation and will probably be topic to the phrases and situations of the collective settlement between the College and the UOIT College Affiliation. The collective settlement could also be discovered on the Human Sources part of our web site. Beginning wage will probably be commensurate with expertise and annual wage will increase are administered as per the phrases outlined within the collective settlement.

Evaluate of purposes will start on January 9, 2024 or till an acceptable candidate is discovered. Candidates ought to submit in digital format (as a single pdf file) a overlaying letter; a curriculum vitae together with a listing of publications; an announcement of educating pursuits/expertise; proof of top quality educating; an overview of their current analysis program; a short future analysis plan; and the names of three referees via the Ontario Tech web site.
Ontario Tech College is an equal alternative employer and welcomes purposes from all certified candidates, whereas particularly encouraging purposes from ladies, members of seen minorities, Indigenous peoples, individuals with disabilities, and individuals of any sexual orientation, gender id, and gender expression. All certified candidates are inspired to use; nevertheless, Canadian residents, everlasting residents and Indigenous Peoples in Canada will probably be given precedence.
Ontario Tech College respects folks’s completely different wants and due to this fact will take all cheap steps to make sure lodging for candidates the place acceptable. The College can also be dedicated to making sure that confidentiality is maintained all through all features of the recruitment cycle.

For those who require lodging, please contact Julie Day, Well being and Incapacity Administration Specialist. For extra details about the colleges insurance policies for accommodating staff with disabilities please evaluation the college’s Accessibility Coverage
The college acknowledges the lands and other people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation which is roofed underneath the Williams Treaties. We’re located on the Conventional Territory of the Mississaugas, a department of the better Anishinaabeg Nation which incorporates Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi.

Job Location: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Anticipated Begin Date: 7/1/2024
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