Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Modern Arts
Canada Exploration Chair in Indigenous Up to date Arts
Tier 2
University for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings St.
Vancouver British Columbia V6B 1H4
Canada
The Faculty for the Up to date Arts (SCA) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) invites apps for a Tier 2 Canada Exploration Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Contemporary Arts. This tenure-track posture is meant for applicants with an fantastic analysis file at the Assistant or Affiliate Professor amount (or those who possess the required skills to be appointed to these stages). The start off date of this situation is expected to be spring 2025.
Occupying the ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh, the SCA is guided by SFU’s framework for reconciliation, and aspires to create spaces and means for decolonization by way of arts-centered practice and analysis. With these aims in head, we invite candidates whose investigate centres Indigenous perspectives, epistemologies, and/or methods.
At the main of the SCA’s mission is a commitment to collaboration and interdisciplinarity. With the recognition that modern day Indigenous research and techniques usually transcend standard groups in the arts, we are open to a assorted range of candidates in one particular or far more places, including theatre/overall performance and production/style, tunes/seem, film/video clip, dance, and visible art. The ideal prospect will develop on the SCA’s determination to interdisciplinarity and cultivate possibilities for collaboration both within just the university and in the broader local community.
Applicant prerequisites

The effective applicant is envisioned to lead meaningfully to the SCA’s exploration strengths and to help sustain the collegial ambiance inside of the Faculty. The investigation plan will support SFU’s Strategic Exploration System, the goals of which consist of: advancing community-centred local weather innovation supporting well being and wellness of men and women, populations and communities increasing the foundations of expertise and knowledge our origins strengthening democracy, justice, equity and training and transforming industry and economies by way of engineering, administration, and plan. The Chairholder will be expected to manage an excellent application of study and a robust report of grants funding. Expertise mobilization to the scholarly group, experienced teams, the typical general public, and other stakeholders, as appropriate, is anticipated. Demonstrated encounter in expanding variety in the candidate’s latest institutional surroundings, and in curriculum, is also an asset.
Expertise mentoring equity-trying to find pupils is envisioned, and working experience mentoring equity-looking for faculty is an asset. Whilst 50 % training reduction relative to common faculty members will be supplied to the Chairholder, the effective prospect will be envisioned to make major contributions to the training mission of the SCA, which include supervising and aiding to secure fiscal assistance for graduate students.
Appointment to a continuing college position in the SCA demands an MFA or PhD completed by the time of appointment in a field or willpower of demonstrated relevance.
To reaffirm our commitment to expanding diversity and confronting institutional underrepresentation, we are limiting this possibility to candidates who identify as Indigenous, as permitted by Part 42 of the B.C. Human Legal rights Code. Applicants are asked for to articulate lived expertise as Indigenous men and women and/or relationships to Indigenous communities.
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About the School for the Up to date Arts

Positioned in just one of downtown Vancouver’s most dynamic and numerous neighbourhoods. the University for the Up to date Arts (SCA) at SFU presents a exclusive curriculum in which studio courses in dance, film, songs/seem, theatre/performance, generation/design, and visual artwork are integrated with the historic and theoretical analyze of the arts. The SCA provides BFAs in Dance, Film, New music & Seem, Theatre & General performance, Generation & Design, and Visual Art, as well as a BA in Artwork, Effectiveness & Cinema Experiments. At the graduate degree, we give an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and an MA in Present-day Arts. Our latest system is the PhD in Present-day Arts, which features a one of a kind option to pursue superior-degree scholarly and/or exercise-based study.
