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Position: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track: Education, Culture & Society

The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level in the Education, Culture and Society program. We are looking for an anthropologist or a scholar in a related field who has conducted long-term ethnographic research on educational processes and settings, either inside or outside schools. The successful candidate will be broadly trained in social theory and will have made or promise to make conceptual as well as empirical contributions to educational scholarship. We would prefer someone who conducts ethnographic research outside the U.S., but we will consider strong candidates who work domestically. The ideal candidate would have an interest in teaching masters and doctoral level courses in social theory, anthropology and education and ethnographic research methods. We seek a highly promising early career scholar with a strong commitment to research, publishing, and graduate teaching and mentoring, with a commitment to securing external support for his or her research. Successful candidates will have their Ph.D. in hand by June 2012. We will begin reviewing applications on October 3, 2011 but will continue to consider new applications until the position is filled.

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