Assistant ProfessorAvailable Title(s):270-NN_FACULTY - Assistant ProfessorBusiness Title:Assistant ProfessorEmployee Type:FacultyTime Type:Full timePosition Term:9 Month - SummerPosition Details:Position SummaryThe Department of Anthropology at Washington State University (WSU) invites applications for a permanent, full-time, nine-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Pullman, WA. We seek to hire a medical anthropologist grounded in biocultural approaches, and methods; regional focus is open. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will begin the appointment on August 16, 2024.Given the needs of the department, institution, and its constituencies, the workload of this position is approximately 40% teaching, 40% research, and 20% service. The research profile for our ideal candidate is a scholar with:• Research focusing on cultural aspects of human health and well-being in a biocultural framework• Commitment to innovative and systematic mixed-methods research with demonstrated strength in qualitative approaches• Research with demonstrated or clear potential real-world applications• Ability to obtain external research funding• Commitment to collaborations with communities and interdisciplinary teams• A research program that lends itself to student collaborations• Research and related teaching that complements or extends current departmental strengthsWSU is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive university community. Towards continually strengthening this commitment, we seek candidates whose research, teaching, and/or service has prepared them to be an integral contributor to the continued advancement of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access here at WSU.Summary of Duties:Responsibilities include:(1) teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural and biocultural anthropology.(2) maintaining an active program of health-related scholarship in a biocultural framework.(3) engaging in collaborative work within and beyond the discipline, including with communities(4) recruiting, advising and mentoring diverse graduate and undergraduate students, including recruiting and retaining students from systematically excluded, historically underserved, and/or minoritized groups.(5) providing service to the department, institution, and profession, including outreach to broader communities.Required Qualifications:• Earned doctorate in anthropology or an appropriate, related discipline by the beginning of the appointment.• An active, collaborative, health-oriented research program.• A commitment to an ongoing and sustained research program with a health focus in living populations.• A commitment to innovative and systematic mixed-methods research.• Research with demonstrated or clear potential real-world applications.• Demonstrated record of or potential to achieve a record of research accomplishment.• Demonstrated record of or potential to establish and maintain an externally funded research program.• Demonstrated record of or potential to successfully teach and mentor students at the graduate and undergraduate levels.• Demonstrated ability and/or potential to support, mentor, and educate individuals identifying with systematically excluded, historically underserved and/or minoritized groups and to contribute to WSU's diversity, equity, and inclusion goals in research, teaching, mentoring, and/or service (https://www.wsu.edu/drive-to-25/diversity-recruitment-plans).About WSU, Pullman, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Anthropology:Washington State University is a land grant, multiple-campus, Research 1 institution. This position will serve on the Pullman campus, which has