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School of Music Faculty Position Announcement Assistant Professor in Musicology/Ethnomusicology Position: Full-time, 9-month, tenure-accruing faculty position Date of Expected Hire: August 16, 2023 Salary: $62,000-64,000; comprehensive benefits package eligible
The University of Florida School of Music, within the College of the Arts, invites applications for a tenure accruing, full time Assistant Professor position in Musicology/Ethnomusicology. We seek an academic colleague prepared to interact fully in the life of a vital and collegial department that strives to integrate the values and approaches of historical musicology and ethnomusicology. The successful candidate will advise and mentor both musicology and ethnomusicology students and offer a variety of courses of interest to our undergraduate and graduate students. We value someone who brings musical performance experience and expertise to their work, whether it is through research, teaching, and/or an ability to perform collaboratively within the department, school, and college. All areas are invited to apply with special consideration for work that bridges the boundaries between musicology and ethnomusicology. We seek a colleague whose research and teaching orientation is innovative in a way that complements the current strengths in our department and prepares students for the current, competitive climate in the arts and in the academy. We seek a colleague who is producing and engaging with scholarship at the forefront of music studies through active research and peer reviewed publications.
The University of Florida is home to a library with a prominent Latin American collection; individual Centers for Latin American, African, and European Studies; and valuable cultural institutions such as the Harn Museum of Art and the Florida Museum of Natural History. In addition to Schools of Music, Art and Art History, and Theater and Dance, the College of the Arts encompasses individual Centers for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship, Arts and Medicine, and the Digital Worlds Institute. The School of Music supports a variety of degree programs, including the PhD, and numerous performance opportunities, including African and Latin American ensembles. We especially seek candidates who can collaborate in these areas, as well as those who bring fresh perspectives to the discipline and our school.
The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will prepare students to access and unsettle centers of power in a radically changing world. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for equity on local and global levels.
The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty, seeking faculty of all races, ethnicities, genders, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Responsibilities • Teach and develop undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars • Advise honors projects, theses, and dissertations • Pursue a vigorous research agenda by maintaining an active research profile consistent with expectations of tenure and promotion • Recruit highly qualified graduate students • Develop and teach an original course within the UF Quest 1 Gen Ed curriculum • Participate fully in faculty governance
SCHOOL OF MUSIC: Organized within the College of the Arts, the School of Music plays an important role in the academic and cultural life of the University, the College’s Creative Campus initiative and the community. The School has 40 full-time and nine adjunct faculty, serving some 200 graduate and 200 undergraduate music majors. Degree programs include B.A., B.M., M.M., D.M.A., and the Ph.D. in music education, composition, ethnomusicology, and historical musicology. Program emphases include performance, music education, theory, composition, music history and literature, ethnomusicology, conducting, and sacred music. The School of Music is also home to the UF Bands program, which includes “The Pride of the Sunshine” Gator Marching Band. School of Music facilities include the School of Music Building and Steinbrenner Band Hall, among others. The University of Florida is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music. For more information, visit www.arts.ufl.edu/music.
THE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: The mission of the College of the Arts is to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. We achieve the university’s mission by training professionals and educating students as artists and scholars, while developing their capacities for critical study, creative practice, and provocation. The College offers baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees. Approximately 1,700 students are pursuing majors in degrees offered by the College of the Arts under the direction of 130 faculty members in its three accredited schools— the School of Art + Art History, the School of Music, and the School of Theatre + Dance, and in the Center for Arts in Medicine, the Digital Worlds Institute, and the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship. In addition, the college comprises the University Galleries, and the University level of the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: The University of Florida is a comprehensive learning institution built on a land grant foundation, ranked one of the top five best public universities in the nation in U.S. News & World Report. We are The Gator Nation, a diverse community dedicated to excellence in education and research and shaping a better future for Florida, the nation and the world. Our mission is to enable our students to lead and influence the next generation and beyond for economic, cultural and societal benefit. UF is a graduate research institution with more than 50,000 students and membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. Gainesville, which is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s most livable cities, is located midway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Together, the University and the community comprise the educational, medical and cultural center of North Central Florida, with outstanding resources such as the University of Florida Performing Arts (Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the Squitieri Studio Theatre, the Baughman Center, University Auditorium), the Harn Museum of Art, the Florida Museum of Natural History and in the community, the Hippodrome State Theatre and Dance Alive National Ballet.
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