Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History
The Berea College Art and Art HistoryDepartment announces a full-time, two-year faculty position of VisitingAssistant Professor of Art History, beginning August 2024. The teaching load isthree courses each semester. The ideal candidate would be able to teach arthistory surveys, 20th and 21st-century art, and LatinAmerican art. The curriculum also supports offering additional courses based onthe candidate’s areas of specialization. PhD by August 2024 and college teaching experiencepreferred, ABD considered.
Interested applicants should include a letterof interest, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching goals, sample syllabi, graduatetranscripts (unofficial accepted at application stage), and contact informationfor two recommenders.
Applicationswill be reviewed on a rolling basis. For full consideration, all applicationmaterials must be received by May17, 2024.
About the Berea College Art and Art History Department: we believe in interdisciplinary connections, the dialogue inspired bygreat ideas, texts, and works of art, and the goals of the liberal artsexperience to answerquestions as to what it means to be a thinking, feeling, and productiveundergraduate student and art historian. Additionally, the Berea College’s Doris Ulmann Galleriesfrequently exhibit work from visiting artists and our extensive collection ofmore than 14,000 works of art, including a strong collection of prints.
For more information on the Berea College Artand Art History Department, see https://www.berea.edu/art/.
Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the firstcoeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstandingcommitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverseprivate liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis onservice to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls 1,600 students from 43 statesand U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unableto afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued atmore than $190,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportiveyet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families toattend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, allBerea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positionsacross campus. Berea College was again named one of the nation’s “BestInstitutions for Undergraduates to Earn their College Degree” in the 2022edition of The Princeton Review’s book, The Best 387 Colleges. Bereaalso appeared on four other lists within the publication: Best Colleges in theSouth; Best Value Colleges; Best Green Colleges; and Tuition Free Schools. The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (THE) 2022 CollegeRankings lists Berea as the #3 Best Value Colleges and 148 among 250ranked colleges (highest-ranked Kentucky college). The Washington Monthly ranks BereaCollege #5 among Liberal Arts Colleges, and #1 Best Bang for the Buck in theSouth. U.S. News and World Report Rankings lists Berea as #26 amongNational Liberal Arts Colleges, #3 for Most Innovative Schools, #6 in TopPerformers in Social Mobility, and tied for #16 in Best Undergraduate Teaching. Money (2022) ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 forBest in the South.
Locatedwhere the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea(pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately twohours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about BereaCollege is available at www.berea.edu.
BereaCollege, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and socialequality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.