Tenure-track Professor in The Field of

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Wien, Österreich Universität Wien Vollzeit

The University of Vienna is internationally renowned for its excellence in teaching and research, and counts more than 7,500 academics from all disciplines. This breadth of expertise offers unique opportunities to address the complex challenges of modern society, to develop comprehensive new approaches, and educate the problem-solvers of tomorrow from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna seeks to appoint a

**Tenure-Track Professor in the field of Materialities and material cultures**:
**The position****:
The applicant will have outstanding competencies in the field of empirical cultural studies/European ethnology and, from this perspective, will make an interdisciplinary contribution to the analysis of material phenomena and their agency, their praxeological dimension, and as contexts of meaning and experience. The position holder contributes to current theoretical debates around concepts of things and materiality, nature-culture relations, cultures of technology, and/or everyday culture analysis of archival and collection strategies. The position holder will have sound empirical expertise from field and/or archival research that complements research and teaching at the University of Vienna. The position complements the profile of European Ethnology and contributes to research and teaching in the Doctoral School, as well as the research priorities of the faculty and university. The position holder should intensify the cooperation with museums (focused on everyday culture) in Vienna, Austria and internationally.

**Your academic profile**:

- Doctoral degree/PhD
- Two years of international research experience during or after doctoral studies
- Outstanding research achievements, excellent publication and funding record, international reputation
- Experience in designing of and participating in research projects, ability to lead research groups and acquire third-party funding
- Enthusiasm for excellent teaching and supervision at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level

***We offer**:

- the opportunity to obtain a permanent position and eventual promotion to full professor; the initial contract as Assistant Professor is limited to six years, after positive evaluation of a qualification agreement the contract becomes permanent as Associate Professor; Associate Professors can be promoted to Full Professor through an internal competitive procedure.
- a dynamic research environment
- a wide range of research and teaching support services
- attractive working conditions in a city with a high quality of life
- an attractive salary according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff (level A2) and an organisational retirement plan

**Application documents**:

- **Letter of motivation**

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- **Academic curriculum vitae**
- education and training (PhD Certificate, PDF)
- positions held to date
- parental, family or other care leaves as applicable
- awards and honors
- commissions of trust
- previous and current cooperation partners
- complete list of acquired third-party funding and, if applicable, of inventions/patents
- list of most important scientific talks (max. 10)
- teaching and mentoring
- supervision experience (Master and PhD), if applicable
- **List of publications**
- link to your own publicly accessible ORCID record, with a complete and current publication list
- three key publications as electronic full text version (PDF, max 30 MB)
- **Research statement**
- most important research achievements (max. 2 pages) and planned future research activities (max. 4 pages)
- synopsis of three key publications with relevance to the position advertised
- publication strategy
- **Teaching and supervision statement**
- teaching and supervision concept, including a description of the previous and planned priorities in academic teaching and supervision (max. 2 pages)
- teaching evaluations (if available, PDF)

**If you have any questions, please contact**:
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**Application deadline**: 01/15/2024
**Reference no.**: 1649

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