• Bachelor's degree in dance, dance education, or a dance research-related field, or equivalent professional experience
• A minimum of one year full- or part-time college/university teaching experience in designing and teaching semester-long studio courses that include viewing, reading, and written work; and placing dance in its socio-historical context, addressing issues of equity and justice that have impacted or are reflected by current concerns in the form.
• Expertise in one or more genre specific dance form (such as, but not limited to, African; Asian, South/South East Asian, Polynesian dance; Middle Eastern; Global Folk traditions; Latinx; Indigenous forms; T'ai Chi; Ballroom and Social Dance; Hip Hop and street styles; Tap and Jazz dance forms; improvisation and/or Somatics; Modern dance).

Please submit the following materials through Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/124592;  a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and a list of three references. Applicants should indicate in which semester(s) in AY2023-24 and/or AY2024-25 they would be available for this position.  Our department is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and candidates should address, across their materials, how they will promote these priorities in their professional career.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please direct any questions to Jaclyn Waguespack, Director, Tufts Dance Program, Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Tufts University. 

All offers of employment are contingent upon the completion of a background check and meeting the University's current COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Tufts University, founded in 1852, prioritizes quality teaching, highly competitive basic and applied research, and a commitment to active citizenship locally, regionally, and globally. Tufts University has also committed to becoming an anti-racist institution and prides itself on the continuous improvement of diversity, equity and inclusion work. Current and prospective employees of the university are expected to have and continuously develop skill in, and disposition for, positively engaging with a diverse population of faculty, staff, and students.

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