Position Available: University of Michigan

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN--Urban Studies and Mass Incarceration

The Department of Afroamerican & African Studies and the Residential
College (RC) at the University of Michigan invite applications for an
associate or full professorship in urban studies beginning
September 1, 2012. This is a university-year appointment. As part of a
cluster hire of up to four faculty, designed to create a ³Detroit
School² of urban studies, we are interested in candidates with research
and teaching interests that focus on how structures of inequality in
declining urban environments, such as Detroit, bear upon patterns of
crime and law enforcement and how policy responses ­ drug laws,
no-tolerance enforcement, sentencing guidelines ­ and the
practice of mass incarceration that has resulted affect individuals,
families, and communities. Candidates need not focus exclusively on
Detroit and its metropolitan area, but an interest in working in a
Detroit-centered research and teaching cluster is essential. We ask that
all candidates consult the full cluster proposal at
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rc/.

This joint position includes teaching responsibilities in Afroamerican &
African Studies, which has an undergraduate BA and a graduate
certificate program, and in the Residential College, which offers a
four-year liberal arts curriculum. While the field of training is open,
a scholar informed by an interdisciplinary perspective that incorporates
fields such as sociology, history, political economy, criminology, or
anthropology is especially attractive. An ideal candidate would also be
willing to assist in the growth of the Urban Studies minor in the RC,
and the Crime and Justice minor, joint between the RC and the Department
of Sociology. Teaching duties may also include courses in the Semester
in Detroit program, and in
community-based learning experiences in collaboration with other UM
units such as Urban Planning, Social Work, Sociology and the Prison
Creative Arts Project (PCAP), now housed in the RC.

All candidates should send a letter of application, CV, writing sample
(30 pages max), statement of teaching philosophy and experience,
evidence of teaching excellence, a statement of current and future
research plans, and a list of at least three references. Applications
should be addressed to:

Urban Studies Search Committee, Department of Afroamerican and African
Studies, University of Michigan, 4700 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor, MI.
48109-1045 or by email to Faye Portis at fayemp@umich.edu.

The deadline for completed applications is November 15, 2011.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Michigan
is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.