UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA

PROFESSOR - DEPARTMENT CHAIR - LUIS LEAL ENDOWED CHAIR

The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara seeks an outstanding scholar in the social sciences to serve as full professor and chair of the department, and to occupy the Luis Leal Endowed Chair with release time for research under the auspices of the Center for Chicano Studies

The successful candidate will be grounded in empirical research on Chicanas and Chicanos or comparative Latino issues with sound theoretical foundations and policy relevancy –quantitative, qualitative or combined methodological orientations are expected.  A scholar supportive of interdisciplinary research and conversant with other fields of knowledge and theoretical methods is also highly desirable. The tenured professorship requires excellence in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as demonstrated academic leadership for the advancement of the department’s pathbreaking graduate program in Chicana and Chicano Studies.

The department’s chairship requires experience in the management of academic, financial and administrative affairs germane to an academic department, and a commitment to fostering an environment that encourages diversity in all its dimensions. The endowed chair requires a robust research and publication record equivalent to the rank of full professor.  The successful candidate will be a nationally recognized scholar capable of engaging constituencies across the campus with her/his research and academic endeavors.

Applicants are invited to send, to the address noted below, a letter of intent, detailed curriculum vitae, a sample of three most significant publications, and the names and contact information of three references by January 10, 2008. References will not be contacted until the candidate pool is selected from field of applicants.
 
The review of applicants will begin on January 15, 2008 but the position will remain open until filled.

Mail application materials to: 
Search Committee- Attention: Juan Vicente Palerm and Mario Garcia
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4120.

Telephone: 805-893-3601 & 805-893-8807    Fax: 805-893-4076

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies  http://www.chicst.ucsb.edu

Over the past three decades, the department has developed an interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on history, culture, gender, politics, and institutions. Courses probe the roots of a cultural tradition beginning with the pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico and the Chicano/Latino historical experience, including Latin American immigrant indigenous people in the United States, extending into the many areas of contemporary American society, including politics, education, literature, the arts, immigration, and sexuality.  Its recently established MA/Ph.D graduate degree in Chicano Studies, the first in the nation, has welcomed its third cohort in fall 2007, and has already proven to be an innovative intellectual space from which new junior scholarsare making their mark in our field. The goal of our graduate program is to educate scholars as interdisciplinary researchers equipped to work with a broad range of contents, perspectives, communities, theories, approaches, and methodologies.
 

The Luis Leal Endowed Chair  http://www.chicst.ucsb.edu/chair/

Approved by the University of California Board of Regents in 1989, the Luis Leal Endowed Chair was established and endowed through private donations to further the development of Chicano studies and research at the University of California Santa Barbara. The Leal Professor will be a tenured permanent member of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies with 50% release time for research at the Center for Chicano Studies.  Tenure in the Luis Leal Chair shall be for 5 years (renewable) and the holder will enjoy the endowment funds to support his/her research initiatives.
 

The Center for Chicano Studies  http://research.ucsb.edu/ccs/

The Center undertakes, promotes and disseminates research regarding the Chicano/Latino experience in California and the United States. The Center’s research activities serve the intellectual interests of Chicana/o Studies students, researchers and faculty from all departments and units on the UCSB campus. Together with the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, the Center supports research that promotes the growing national and international stature of the field and assists in the recruitment and retention of Chicano/Latino faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at the university. It, furthermore, promotes cultural education for the campus and community by sponsoring events and programs that draw from Chicana/o, Mexican and Latin American music, dance, theatre, film and art traditions.