Film and Digital Media Assistant Professor of Social Documentation and Critical Practice (UPDAT[...]
Company: University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Location: Santa Cruz
Posted on: January 26, 2023
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Job Description:
The Department of Film and Digital Media () at the University of
California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for an Assistant
Professor of Social Documentation and Critical Practice.
We seek an active filmmaker/practitioner whose work engages with
the boundless expressive, connective, and disruptive potential of
socially engaged documentary production, and whose methods of
research, mediamaking, and critical practice are grounded in and
accountable to communities that are under/misrepresented in mass
media and/or systematically excluded from dominant systems of
representation. We seek a colleague whose critical practice and
teaching employs an intersectional approach to exploring areas of
focus such as social, economic and ecological equity and justice;
race and racialization; migration and globalization; gender and
sexuality; disability rights; collective expression, imaginaries
and resilience; and the ethics and aesthetics of representation.
Drawing on their ongoing research and practice, the selected
candidate will be able to teach camera-based technique courses in
production and post-production of documentary film and media.
Documentary studies and practice constitute a focal point for
DEI-informed work in our department, and this position will serve a
deeply diverse community of students at all levels in the MFA, PhD
and undergraduate programs while drawing on interdisciplinary
collaborations with diverse programs such as: Critical Race and
Ethnic Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies; Feminist
Studies; Sociology; History of Consciousness; Politics; Psychology;
Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise and Participatory
Governance; Research Center for the Americas; Center for South
Asian Studies; Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA and
Digital Arts and New Media MFA programs.
Candidates should have a PhD and/or MFA/MA or equivalent production
and demonstrated evidence of outstanding, nationally and/or
internationally recognized achievement in community engaged
mediamaking practices and national/international exhibition. Strong
consideration will be given, as appropriate, to creative work,
research, teaching record and the willingness to participate in the
ongoing curricular development, diversification and decolonization
of our department's program. Competency in languages additional to
English is desirable as it could facilitate more diverse research
perspectives, collaborations, or outreach. We expect the successful
candidates to prioritize their own creative and/or scholarly work;
to pursue a program of research or creative production; contribute
to our general curriculum; and engage in service to the Department,
Division, and Campus as well as to the field and engaged external
communities. We also expect the successful candidate to contribute
significantly to graduate education and the mentoring of graduate
students.
The campus operates on a schedule of three 11-week quarters per
academic year. In accordance with the department's workload policy,
faculty members are required to offer the equivalent of 4 five-unit
courses per year. Additional duties include advising and mentoring
both undergraduate and graduate students, participating in faculty
governance at the departmental and campus level, and actively
undertaking administrative service for the department, affiliated
college, and University.
The Film & Digital Media Department at UC Santa Cruz offers an
undergraduate major, the two-year MFA program in Social
Documentation, and a PhD program. Our curriculum reflects an
understanding that intellectual and creative work are
interconnected forms of production and inquiry and
intervention/social impact, and challenges the traditionally
conceived borders between creative and critical practice. The Arts
Division, of which Film & Digital Media is a part, supports faculty
research through the Arts Research Institute ; the campus supports
research and teaching with grants awarded by the Committee on
Research, the Committee on Teaching, and other groups.
In addition to encouraging participation in robust departmental,
divisional, and campus mentoring programs, UC Santa Cruz is a
Hispanic-Serving Institution and an Asian American and Native
American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution with a high
proportion of first-in-family undergraduate students. The Faculty
Community Networking Program provides structures for faculty
community, development, and support through seven groups supporting
Academic Mothers; African-American/Black/Caribbean faculty; Asian
American/Pacific Islander faculty; Faculty with Disabilities &
Chronic Illness; Indigenous faculty; Latinx/Chicanx faculty; and
Women in STEM.
Our first round of review will be solely based on (1) the statement
of creative practice and research and (2) the statement of
contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome
candidates who understand the barriers facing historically
oppressed groups in higher education, and who have demonstrated
experience in advancing equity and diversity with respect to
teaching, mentoring, research, life experiences, or service towards
building an equitable and diverse scholarly environment. We are
looking for candidates who demonstrate effective strategies that
support the recruitment and success of underrepresented scholars
and students, which may take a variety of forms. The rubric that we
will use to evaluate the statement of contributions to diversity,
equity and inclusion is available here: This recruitment is
supported by the UC Office of the President's Advancing Faculty
Diversity program and includes enhanced funding for faculty
projects that contribute to diversity and to creating an inclusive
climate.
The chosen candidate will be expected to sign a statement
representing that they are not the subject of any ongoing
investigation or disciplinary proceeding at their current academic
institution or place of employment, nor have they in the past ten
years been formally disciplined at any academic institution/place
of employment. In the event the candidate cannot make this
representation, they will be expected to disclose in writing to the
hiring Dean the circumstances surrounding any formal discipline
that they have received, as well as any current or ongoing
investigation or disciplinary process of which they are the
subject. (Note that discipline includes a negotiated settlement
agreement to resolve a matter related to substantiated
misconduct.)
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