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Rhode Island School of Design ( RISD ) invites applications for three full-time term appointment Social Equity & Inclusion Faculty Fellowships at the rank of Assistant Professor-in-Residence, to commence Fall 2024. These positions are for 2-year term appointments (AY 24/25-AY 25/26).

The Social Equity & Inclusion Faculty Fellow is part of the RISD faculty and a member of a cohort of three fellows who each teach courses in academic departments, offer workshops through RISD’s Teaching & Learning Lab, and contribute to the Division of Social Equity & Inclusion. The discipline for the fellowship is open, although applicants with expertise in Illustration, Industrial Design, or Literary Arts and Studies ( LAS ) are particularly encouraged to apply.

Principles of social equity, inclusion, and diversity are fundamental to RISD’s academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require ongoing attention to differential embodied experience and expansion of the forms of knowledge from which our curricula originate. RISD is engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value applicants whose pedagogical and professional experiences have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We seek applicants whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) attends to embodied difference as intersectional and centers on bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. We particularly encourage applicants who can help advance the institution’s social equity, inclusion, and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and long standing, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, and first-generation college students.

We are seeking a creative practitioner, scholar, and/or researcher whose work engages non-western, indigenous, and/or historically marginalized cultures, histories, and forms of knowledge; investigates, critiques, or addresses the ways in which power shapes notions of value and inequality, in particular understandings of race and its intersections with other issues; and/or fosters inclusion by exploring pedagogies and practices that meaningfully engage a diverse range of students/communities.

The ideal candidate will be able to offer courses that will appeal to an internationally diverse student population of artists and designers and will be pursuing creative/scholarly work that has the potential to engage the RISD community. We seek candidates who demonstrate a high level of creative and/or scholarly practice, quality undergraduate teaching, and an ability to contribute programming to RISD’s Teaching & Learning Lab, as well as to other institutional initiatives to further social equity, inclusion, and diversity.

International candidates: RISD can sponsor a J1 visa or a TN visa for this term Assistant Professor-in-Residence position. RISD does not sponsor other types of employment visas for term appointment positions and cannot hire STEM OPT holders.

Job Qualifications Required:

• A terminal degree in applicant’s discipline conferred by July 1, 2024

• Ability to teach in one or more academic departments at RISD

• Evidence of successful teaching at the college level

• Evidence of a high level of creative/scholarly practice

• Expertise in social equity, inclusion, and diversity in relation to teaching and/or creative/scholarly practice

• Demonstrated ability to work supportively with students, faculty, and staff to advance social equity, inclusion, and diversity at RISD

Job Qualifications Preferred:

• Expertise in Illustration, Industrial Design, or Literary Arts and Studies

Employment Type: Full-Time

Department: Social Equity & Inclusion