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Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies

School Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department/Area Sociology
Position Description

The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses and will serve as the department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies. Duties include overseeing the Department’s undergraduate program, including the concentration and secondary field; conducting and coordinating undergraduate advising, including concentration and senior theses advising; overseeing concentration advisers and teaching fellows. The Director of Undergraduate Studies also is responsible for arranging the departmental program of undergraduate course offerings for the coming academic year, under the direction of the Department Chair and the Chair of the Departmental Curriculum Committee and in consultation with faculty members and the Director of Graduate Studies. This appointment is renewable every five years based on performance and curricular needs. Harvard is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from women and members of minority groups.

Basic Qualifications

Ph.D.

Additional Qualifications

A strong record of achievement in academic research; a demonstrated excellence in, enthusiasm for, and commitment to undergraduate teaching; and relevant academic administrative experience. This position requires excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills. Substantive areas of research and teaching are open. Applicants for the position will ordinarily have taught within the ladder ranks at a university or peer undergraduate institution.

Special Instructions

See also the posting of Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies http://employment.harvard.edu/ (Req.# 26006BR). Please apply to the position for which you feel most qualified. Candidates may be considered under either position.

Contact Information

Suzanne Ogungbadero
Coordinator of Academic Affairs
Harvard Sociology Department
William James Hall, Room 668
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138-4038

Contact Email saw@wjh.harvard.edu