Assistant Professor - Music since 1900 (Historical Musicology) - Department of M

Assistant Professor - Music Since 1900 (Historical Musicology)

The Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a full-time, tenure track Assistant Professor with expertise in music or sound since 1900. We seek a scholar whose work is theoretically and methodologically innovative and who engages critically with concepts of history and the archive. We encourage applications from scholars whose research focuses on music in global and transnational contexts, popular and vernacular music, music and technology, multi-media aesthetics and intermedial arts, modern and contemporary aesthetics and techniques, media and communication theory, and the music industry.

The successful candidate will join a department that approaches music and sound holistically, as social, aesthetic, medial, and political phenomena that fundamentally shape and reflect experience, and whose members work to support the success of all students through inclusive curricula, creative pedagogy, and a supportive classroom environment.

The Department of Music boasts a roster of distinguished Bay Area artists offering individual musical instruction, a treasured collection of classical instruments, as well as four buildings: Hertz Concert Hall, the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, the Center for New Music and Audio Technology and Morrison Hall. Through its courses and concerts the department reaches out to hundreds of students from other departments, to its many alumni, and to the general public.

The department is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non-traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia.

PhD (or equivalent international degree), or enrolled in PhD or equivalent international degree-granting program at the time of application.

Cover Letter - In the cover letter, please discuss your accomplishments and future plans in the areas of research, teaching, and service. For research, this should include a description of your current research project and some remarks about future research directions. For teaching, please discuss your approach to pedagogy, including strategies you have used or would use to support student success. This may include, for example, inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, mentoring, and/or assessments. For service, describe contributions you have made or envision making within your institution(s), profession, or community that support the success of students and colleagues, increase outreach, or strengthen community.

Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

Authorization to Release Information Form - A reference check will be completed only if you are selected as the candidate to whom the hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer. Download, complete, sign, and upload the Authorization to Release Information form.

Writing Sample - Writing Sample (not to exceed 12,000 words)

3 required (contact information only)

Letters of recommendation will be solicited for candidates under serious consideration.

UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our public mission of research, teaching, and service, consistent with UC Regents Policy 4400 and University of California Academic Personnel policy. These values are embedded in our Principles of Community, which reflect our passion for critical inquiry, debate, discovery and innovation, and our deep commitment to contributing to a better world. Every member of the UC Berkeley community has a role in sustaining a safe, caring and humane environment in which these values can thrive.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.