The Department of American Studies at The University of Alabama invites applications for an entry-level, tenure track position, beginning August 16, 2009. Primary preparation should be in Southern culture, gender, and race. Secondary areas in Black women, the modern Civil Rights Movement or African-American Studies are a strong plus. Courses in our undergraduate curriculum currently include Southern Lives, Women in the South, and Gender and Culture. Studies in the South are the usual graduate offering. It is especially important that the applicant be able to contribute lectures with Southern and Civil Rights Movement content to our team-taught introductory course. The ideal candidate will be committed to teaching and mentoring students as well as research. Salary is competitive.

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