The Department is seeking to appoint an anthropologist to a teaching
and research position in the Department where exciting new synergies
are developing after a series of appointments. The appointee will
teach at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and will supervise
PhD theses and Masters degrees in Applied Anthropology and in
Development Studies and Cultural Change. The appointee will also
contribute to a large first year course in introductory anthropology.
# Essential Selection Criteria: PhD in Anthropology or related
discipline; experience of and commitment to, ongoing ethnographic field
work; demonstrated commitment to research-inspired, and student-centred
learning and teaching; demonstrated record of research activity and
excellence, relative to opportunity, as evidenced by peer-reviewed
publications; demonstrated capacity to contribute to teaching and
supervision, based on ongoing research, in the anthropology of
religion; the ability to draw expertise on the classic strengths of
anthropology of religion - the interpretation of symbolic and ritual
practices - and to address areas of more recent focus in the field of
religion, in relation to the law, the state and global social processes.
# Desirable Selection Criteria: Specialisation in one or more of the
following fields; Visual Anthropology with special reference to film
and media, and expertise in training students in ethnographic film
making; Anthropology of Law; experience in innovative teaching.
# The position is available on a full-time (continuing) basis from
2009 and may be subject to probationary conditions. Selection criteria
must be addressed in the application.
# Enquiries: Dr Kalpana Ram, Head of Department, on +61-2-9850-8016 or
e-mail kalpana.ram@mq.edu.au
# Package: From $81,682 pa, including base salary (Level B) $69,022 to
$81,847 pa, annual leave loading and 17% employer's superannuation.
# Information about the Department of Anthropology is available from
# Closing Date: 31 July 2008
# Please note that only those applications submitted via the Macquarie
University Online Recruitment System will be accepted.
http://macquarieuniversity.nga.net.au
Dr. Christopher Houston
Department of Anthropology
Macquarie University,
NSW, 2109, Australia
