Description
The Job
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works at the intersection of gender or sexuality and aging.
GWS envisions that the successful candidate focuses their research and teaching on health and aging at the intersection of sex, gender, and sexuality and on the long-term health effects of social and economic marginalization. This hire aligns with our scholarly focus on illuminating the structures of inequality, highlighting resilience and resistance, and advocating for a more equitable health landscape.
We are particularly interested in scholars who study gendered aging among socially or economically marginalized groups. Use of identifiable feminist research methods and interest in community-engaged research are a plus. Areas of interest include gendered aging among Indigenous people; aging concerns among queer/trans communities; women, aging, and sexuality; Black women and aging; women and elder abuse. Strong candidates with a commitment to interdisciplinary research on gender or sexuality and aging and an interest in advancing the health span (safe, secure, and healthy lifespan) regardless of sub-specialization, will be considered.
The Department
From its beginning, GWS has supported intersectional, interdisciplinary research and teaching focused on gender, sexuality, and health. Current faculty and students study reproduction, sexuality, disability and ableism, health activism, HIV/AIDS, and sexual violence in the United States and across the globe. We explore health and illness across the life course, and we have made important scholarly interventions into our collective understanding of age-mediated life events (e.g. menopause, “reproductive age,” marriage, and girlhood). Learn more at https://gws.wisc.edu/
The Hiring Initiative
This position is part of the Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Initiative. Through accelerated and strategic faculty hiring, research infrastructure enhancement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and increased student and educational opportunities, RISE addresses complex societal challenges of importance to the state, nation and world. Building on UW–Madison’s strengths, RISE expands the University’s successful track record of connecting with communities and industry on collaborative solutions.
The RISE-THRIVE (Transforming Healthspan through Research, InnoVation, and Education) initiative is built on advancing the “health span,” or the number of years a person is living with good health and well-being. Over the next three academic years, UW–Madison will substantially increase current hiring levels, bringing 150 new RISE faculty to campus. Candidates hired through RISE will join a community of scholars working across disciplines, schools and colleges on research, teaching and outreach endeavors. The community will engage regularly in venues such as seminar series and colloquia to share ongoing projects and identify opportunities to work together. The University will support the community, facilitating access to research infrastructure, and funding to support broad and rich collaboration. Further information regarding RISE can be found at: https://rise.wisc.edu/
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Candidates should have an on-going research agenda that focuses on gender or sexuality and aging.
- Candidates should have evidence of or potential for excellent teaching.
- Candidates should exhibit the potential for excellent scholarship that complements the mission of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.
- Candidates should be interested in interdisciplinary research projects that focus on understanding social and cultural impediments to health span and/or efforts to improve health span and demonstrate potential for interdisciplinary collaboration across departments and with various research centers (e.g. Center for Demography and Ecology, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, and the Center for Healthy Minds)
- Candidate will demonstrate fostering or the ability to foster a teaching, learning, mentoring, departmental, and a research environment where all can thrive.
- Appointment with tenure requires review by the Social Sciences Divisional Committee or the Arts and Humanities Divisional Committee prior to the start of appointment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior teaching experience is preferred.
- Interest in community-engaged research is a plus.
- Some gender studies training is desired.
Education: Ph.D. in gender studies (gender and women’s studies; gender and sexuality studies; feminist studies) or other disciplinary or interdisciplinary field required by start of appointment.
