Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.

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The University of Maryland School of Music invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Musicology. We are seeking a scholar and teacher of exceptional promise or established reputation with a specialization in U.S. popular music, broadly defined, whose areas of expertise complement those of the full-time faculty in the School’s Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology.

The successful candidate will teach in the University of Maryland’s general education program, required coursework in the undergraduate music history sequence, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminars on topics of their choosing. Additional responsibilities will include maintaining an active research profile; supervising and mentoring graduate students and teaching assistants; serving on thesis and dissertation committees; participating on faculty committees for the School of Music, College of Arts and Humanities, and the University.

Ph.D. in musicology or a closely related discipline (attained by August 2023); evidence or promise of excellence in research; evidence or promise of innovative teaching (especially in general education); and an interest in and aptitude for graduate advising.

The University of Maryland School of Music is a comprehensive arts institution housed in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, a state-of- the-art complex with six performance venues, classrooms, and the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library. The School of Music offers B.A., B.M., M.A., M.M., Ph.D., and D.M.A degrees. Located within minutes of the Nation’s Capital, the University is linked by mass transit to celebrated performance venues that include the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Museums, the National Gallery, and the Corcoran and Kreeger Museums. World-class research facilities near the campus include the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution (which also houses Smithsonian Folkways Records), the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the National Archives and the National Archives II. We assert and celebrate the value of the arts to the mission of the university. The School of Music is strongly committed to access, diversity, equity and inclusion as a means of achieving and sustaining excellence.

STATEMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO DIVERSITY: We seek candidates whose research, teaching, and service have prepared them to contribute the University of Maryland’s efforts around diversity and inclusion. In their Statement of Contributions to Diversity, applicants are asked to summarize how their professional activities and leadership efforts have or will contribute to building an equitable and diverse scholarly and learning environment, and/or will increase access or participation of individuals form historically underrepresented groups in line with University of Maryland’s Arts for All Initiative.

LINKS: music.umd.edu; theclarice.umd.edu; arts.umd.edu

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