[AMS-announce] JOB: Asst. Professor of World Music (tenure-track), Franklin & Marshall College, Fall 2008

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Faculty Position at Franklin & Marshall College

Assistant Professor, tenure-track position to teach courses in world music, introduction to Western art music, and courses in the College's interdisciplinary ³Foundations² curriculum, beginning in the fall of 2008. There is some flexibility in the choice of related courses to be taught.

Qualifications: Ph.D. in ethnomusicology or historical musicology, teaching experience at the college level, and demonstrated potential that the candidate's scholarly work will make a significant and ongoing contribution to the candidate's field.

Application: Send a vita, three letters of recommendation, and graduate transcripts (no supplemental materials, such as sample work, at this time):

Professor Bruce Gustafson, Chairperson
Department of Music
Franklin & Marshall College
Box 3003
Lancaster, PA  17604-3003

Deadline: January 2, 2008

The College: Franklin & Marshall College is a highly selective, undergraduate, liberal arts institution located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We are directly accessible to Philadelphia (about an hour), New York City (3 hours), and Baltimore-Washington (2 hours). The College, with about 2,000 students, is a non-sectarian, co-educational institution. Franklin & Marshall College has a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism.  EOE

The Department: The Music Department has a staff of seven full-time persons: a musicologist, an ethnomusicologist, a composer, a theorist, a choral conductor, an instrumental conductor, and an artist in residence, voice; there are thirteen part-time instructors in studio lessons. We offer a music major and a minor, both within the context of a Bachelor of Arts degree.