The Division of Art History in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University seeks an exceptional scholar and teacher for a full-time appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, depending on expertise, beginning August 2016 (position number 00053186).

Expectations:

• Required criteria include an outstanding teaching record, including experience teaching and advising graduate students; a record of innovative, disciplinarily transformative scholarship with demonstrable national and international impact; and the desire to work collaboratively with faculty within and beyond the art history department on initiatives related to the doctoral program.
• Strongly desired criteria include a record of inspiring teaching and generous mentorship that extends to the professional placement of students following degree completion; a record of program-building and collaboration at prior institutions; and openness to working with other departments and programs and with the wider university community to advance programmatic goals.
• The faculty member would be also be expected to advise MA and PhD students working in areas relevant to his or her work and to pursue and to continue to publish substantive scholarly research that shapes the discipline.
• The course load, like that of other full-time faculty in the department, would be 2-2.
• We would welcome applications from scholars whose work interrogates the development and use of visual media within historical  cultures and societies in any period (ancient through present), or region of the world (Europe, the Near East, the Americas, Asia, Africa, Oceania, or in diaspora). We particularly seek a candidate whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries, is methodologically innovative, is engaged with emerging fields, and can leverage or enhance existing strengths in the visual culture and the Americas and Iberia.