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Job Description
- Req#: 268278
The Department of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill invites applications for an Assistant Professor rank, tenure-track, cultural medical anthropologist with a start date of July 1, 2024. We seek a scholar and teacher who will contribute to our vibrant programs in undergraduate and graduate education, including a growing medical anthropology major and minor and a PhD concentration. At Chapel Hill, medical anthropology also contributes to the Medical Humanities program and many of our classes count for an MA in Medicine, Literature and Culture.
We welcome scholars with a broad range of interests in cultural medical anthropology, including but not limited to: the social implications of new biomedical technologies; medical humanitarianism; psy-sciences and mental health; race and medicine; infectious and chronic disease in political-economic and cultural contexts; ontologies of the body; medical research and clinical trials; end-of-life care; drug use/rehabilitation technologies; disability; pharmaceuticals, and matters of care-giving.
Scholars working on questions related to the intersections of biomedicine and other medical systems including epistemologies of medical pluralism-- are also welcome to apply. We encourage applicants who offer anthropological insights on the nexus between biomedicine as epistemology and practice as well as between biomedicine and broader forms of inequality. A successful applicant would engage with our interdisciplinary Moral Economies of Medicine Working Group, our cross-disciplinary graduate concentration in Medical Anthropology, and our undergraduate majors. Geographical region is open but applicants whose expertise complements that of existing faculty are especially welcome.About the company
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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