Job Posting for Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History at Berea College
The Berea College Art and Art History Department announces a full-time, two-year faculty position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, beginning August 2024. The teaching load is three courses each semester. The ideal candidate would be able to teach art history surveys, 20th and 21st-century art, and Latin American art. The curriculum also supports offering additional courses based on the candidate’s areas of specialization. PhD by August 2024 and college teaching experience preferred, ABD considered.
Interested applicants should include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching goals, sample syllabi, graduate transcripts (unofficial accepted at application stage), and contact information for two recommenders.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. For full consideration, all application materials must be received by May 17, 2024.
About the Berea College Art and Art History Department: we believe in interdisciplinary connections, the dialogue inspired by great ideas, texts, and works of art, and the goals of the liberal arts experience to answer questions as to what it means to be a thinking, feeling, and productive undergraduate student and art historian. Additionally, the Berea College’s Doris Ulmann Galleries frequently exhibit work from visiting artists and our extensive collection of more than 14,000 works of art, including a strong collection of prints.
For more information on the Berea College Art and Art History Department, see https://www.berea.edu/art/.
Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls 1,600 students from 43 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $190,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College was again named one of the nation’s “Best Institutions for Undergraduates to Earn their College Degree” in the 2022 edition of The Princeton Review’s book, The Best 387 Colleges. Berea also appeared on four other lists within the publication: Best Colleges in the South; Best Value Colleges; Best Green Colleges; and Tuition Free Schools. The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (THE) 2022 College Rankings lists Berea as the #3 Best Value Colleges and 148 among 250 ranked colleges (highest-ranked Kentucky college). The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #5 among Liberal Arts Colleges, and #1 Best Bang for the Buck in the South. U.S. News and World Report Rankings lists Berea as #26 among National Liberal Arts Colleges, #3 for Most Innovative Schools, #6 in Top Performers in Social Mobility, and tied for #16 in Best Undergraduate Teaching. Money (2022) ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South.
Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.
Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.
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