Associate Professor/Professor in the History of Medicine
The Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) at the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB), invites applications
for a tenure-track faculty position, with rank negotiable based on experience.
The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary faculty in ethics,
history, law, policy, literature, religious studies, and visual studies who
engage in research and teaching of students in the health professions and
graduate students in the biomedical sciences and humanities. The IMH also
offers an ethics consultation service in the university’s hospitals. The IMH is
home of the nation’s only Ph.D. program in medical humanities.
Candidates should have a Ph.D. degree in history with
specialized interest in history of medicine or a related field. The candidate
should be interested in teaching and research within a setting of
interdisciplinary scholarship in medical humanities, ethics, social science and
health policy. The successful candidate will be expected to teach medical and
graduate students and conduct independent research in an area that complements
the current research and scholarship of the Institute. Willingness to engage in
interdisciplinary collaboration and potential to secure external grant funding
are essential qualifications. An interest in health care for the underserved,
health disparities and related research topics is highly desirable. Prior
experience with cultural groups prominently represented among the patient
population of UTMB is also highly desirable. Minimum of two plus years with
teaching experience. Salary and rank is based on experience.
TO APPLY:
Send letter of interest with description of experience and
career goals along with curriculum vitae and contact information for three
professional references to the Search Committee c/o Beverly Claussen at beclauss@utmb.edu and reference job opening
# 48373.
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