Position Announcement: Assistant Professor of Indigenous Media, Cultural Sovereignty and Decolonization, UC Santa Cruz

The Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Media, Cultural Sovereignty and Decolonization. 

The Film & Digital Media Department at UC Santa Cruz offers an undergraduate major that currently enrolls 700 students, the two-year MFA program in Social Documentation that averages eight students per cohort, and a PhD program currently enrolling 29 students. Our curriculum reflects an understanding that intellectual and creative work are related forms of production and inquiry that challenge the traditionally conceived borders between creative and critical practice. The Arts Division, of which Film & Digital Media is a part, supports faculty research through the Arts Research Institute http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/ari/; the campus supports research and teaching with grants awarded by the Committee on Research, the Committee on Teaching, and other groups. An Indigenous Networking Group actively works to serve the common interests of and support Native/Indigenous faculty members from different departments across the UCSC campus. UC Santa Cruz is a Hispanic-Serving Institution with a high proportion of first-in-family undergraduate students.

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