Is There an Ideological Bias at UMass Boston?

Faculty positions are aplenty at UMass Boston. Moderates, centrists, conservatives and scientists need not apply.

Some people say academia is going through a crisis, but here at UMass Boston we haven’t heard about it. As a matter of fact - business is booming! Just look at all the new faculty hires going on this year. So many departments are hiring new professors! If you’re on the academic job market, we’re sure there’s a place for you here, if you are the right kind of academic:

• If you are an expert in critical inclusion studies, with focus on social justice and inclusion for marginalized social groups, in particular race and ethnic studies or decolonial studies using an intersectional approach, the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development is the place for you.

• If you are interested in environmental justice and you want to study the systemic, racist and colonialist policies and practices that result in disproportionate environmental burdens placed on those with the least political power, come to the School for the Environment. We are especially interested in candidates who integrate traditional ecological knowledge with indigenous perspectives.

• If you use critical security studies (whatever that is) to connect questions of global governance with imperatives for human security, and your areas of focus include gender, race, and/or decolonial theory, you can join the department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance.

• The department of Public Policy and Public Affairs is looking for a faculty member with expertise in racial, disparities, gender inequality and intersectional approaches to inequities. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to UMass Boston’s anti-racist and health promotion mission. Maybe it’s you?

• The department of Anthropology is looking for you if you are an expert in one of the following areas: Indigenous research methodologies; Indigenous futurisms; social movements, anti-racism, and gender justice; environmental justice, traditional ecological knowledge etc. You should also create a pedagogical environment that addresses systematic issues of racial disparity, gender inequality, and intersectional inequities, among others.

• The department of Leadership in education is the place for you if you are interested in racial and gender equity in higher education using an asset-based approach. We are especially interested in scholars who take a critically conscious, equity-minded, and asset-based approach to advancing equity and racial justice in higher education.

• If you are a political scientist whose area of specialization is in race, ethnicity, and politics, come to us!

• If you are interested in Curriculum and Instruction and you share UMass Boston’s commitment to anti-racism, and social justice and possess culturally sustaining perspectives on education, we want you! Especially if you engage critical frameworks related to learning in urban contexts that are linguistically, racially, and culturally diverse.

• If you are an economist who is interested in inequality, poverty, and/or race, we want you!

• The department of Sociology wants you if you are interested in health/medical sociology, but also if you specialize in the sociology of race and ethnicity. UMass Boston and the Department of Sociology have a strong commitment to social justice and inclusion, and we strongly encourage people from the communities of color best represented in Boston to apply. 

• The Women’s gender sexuality department (sic) is looking for you if you study Black Feminisms, Black Queer Studies, Black Trans Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Indigenous Studies, and/or Transnational Feminisms.

• If your focus is Latiné communities, apply to the department of Psychology. Specialties include: mental health experiences or disparities related to race, culture, and/or identity in children; community-based problem prevention and/or evidence-based healing practice within marginalized racial and ethnic minority communities; developmental processes of racialization; racial and anti-racist socialization within families; experiences with, effects of, or coping with and resistance to racism and/or inter-sectional discrimination (e.g., ableism, cissexism); family resilience processes; culturally-responsive approaches to inter-generational family dynamics. It was recently coined “wokest job ad ever” by right wing extremist and white supremacist Jerry Coyne, which makes it the Best.Ad.Ever!

• If you are a scientist… well, there are no searches at this time. Apply elsewhere. We don’t care about science.