The Art History program and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre jointly invite applications from outstanding scholars in the area of Indigenous Visual and Material Cultures of the Americas for a faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor under the Queen’s National Scholar (QNS) Program. The successful candidate will be expected to have Indigenous visual and/or material cultures (historical or contemporary) as a primary field with a secondary strength in curatorial or museum studies. Preference will be given to candidates who have a demonstrated interest in collaborative scholarship, and the capacity to expand teaching strategies and exhibition opportunities that focus on Indigenous art and extend experiential learning. The successful candidate will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and will participate in graduate student supervision (MA and PhD). A primary criterion for selection is a passion for teaching and research excellence, complemented by a commitment to cultivating connections with and among Indigenous communities on campus and beyond. Working inventively to develop collections, exhibitions and programs at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the successful candidate will deliver courses that integrate learning, research and cultural production. The Art Centre holds a fine collection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art and artefacts of northern Indigenous peoples; an unusual, rare collection of Woodlands and other Indigenous cultural artefacts; and a substantial body of Inuit art from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition, a small high-quality collection of contemporary art by Indigenous artists in Canada has been developed.

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