Two (2) Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Arts in Health, Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida

Two (2) Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Arts in Health, Center for Arts in Medicine – University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida

The UF Center for Arts in Medicine is hiring two tenure-accruing assistant professors to help shape the future of Arts in Health through research, teaching, and practice. Located in Gainesville, Florida, our Center is a national leader in integrating the arts into healthcare and public health. We seek passionate faculty dedicated to advancing the field through innovative scholarship and inspiring the next generation of Arts in Health professionals.

The Center for Arts in Medicine in the College of the Arts seeks two (2) Assistant Professors to recruit, teach, and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, maintain an active national and international externally funded research and creative activity profile, and participate in shared governance and service to the Center, College, University and the Arts in Health field. The successful candidate will conduct research in one of the following areas:

• Arts in health (administration, arts practitioner, researcher, educator, etc.)
• Arts in public health
• Medical and health humanities
• Arts, health, and AI
• Or related fields (tell us what you bring to Arts in Health)

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will prepare students to access and unsettle centers of power of any ideology in a radically changing world. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for justice on local and global levels.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty, staff and student body.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit, teach, and mentor undergraduate and graduate students in arts in health.
• Active engagement or possible leadership in CAM’s comprehensive two and a half day Research Primer in collaboration with University College London.
• Maintain an active national and international research and creative activity profile in areas of specialization, consistent with UF and unit guidelines for progress toward tenure and promotion.
• Maintain and manage a sponsored research portfolio.
• Actively participate in our learning community, finding innovative ways to collaborate with faculty and peers in Arts in Health.
• Active engagement or possible leadership in CAM’s Interdisciplinary Research Lab.
• Participate in shared governance through service to the Center, College, University and the field, including taking on leadership roles and volunteering for service opportunities that benefit the community and the profession.

Tenure assignment will be housed in one of the three schools in the College of the Arts (School of Theatre + Dance, School of Music, School of Art + Art History); however, this position is expected to perform their duties in and for the Center for Arts in Medicine on the UF main campus in Gainesville, Florida.

Expected Salary: $90,000 annual salary with a comprehensive and highly competitive leave and benefits package

The successful candidate must meet all of the following:

• Terminal degree (or ABD)
• Potential for achievement in research at a national or international level, in alignment with the tenure and promotion criteria of UF and the unit in which tenure will be evaluated.
• Record of success in securing or documented history of application for external funding. Evidence of skill in writing grant proposals.
• Three (3) years of post-secondary teaching and student mentorship experience
• Evidence of skill in designing and facilitating academic work that advances curiosity, inclusion, open intellectual discourse, and the well-being of all in an environment of complex diversities.

Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until an applicant pool is established. To ensure full consideration, all application documents must be submitted by March 14, 2025. Applications received after this date may be considered at the discretion of the committee and/or hiring authority.

Inquiries may be sent to:
Colleen Rua
Chair, Arts in Health Assistant Professors Search
Email: c.rua@ufl.edu

Apply Here: https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/534868/assistant-professors-2-positions-in-arts-in-health