Parsons The New School for Design, a division of The New School, seeks applicants for a two-year post-doctoral fellow position in Material and Visual Culture within the School of Art and Design History and Theory (ADHT).
Candidates should demonstrate expertise in the history and interpretation of the material world from the perspective of art and design history, archaeology, anthropology, design studies, material culture, or visual studies. Candidates must be interdisciplinary in their methodologies of research and have expertise with innovative pedagogical approaches that will engage students across Parsons and the wider University community. Field of specialization is open, although preference is given to expertise in Asian and Southeast Asian material and visual culture.
The locus of this position will be in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, whose full- and part-time faculty are engaged academically while remaining active in their professional fields of practice. Scholarship of the successful candidate will contribute to the connections among the school’s graduate degree programs in the following areas:
- MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design (in collaboration with the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum).
- MA Fashion Studies
- MA Design Studies
Teaching Responsibilities
Post-Doctoral Fellows will teach four courses or the equivalent during the academic year, at either the graduate or undergraduate level, and be involved, under the supervision of full-time faculty, with research-based tasks that support the graduate programs within the School.