[AMS-announce] JOBS: Music, NYU Abu Dhabi

[Announcements for the AMS]

FACULTY POSITIONS
Music
NYU Abu Dhabi 

New York University is establishing a campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and invites applications for faculty positions at any level (assistant, associate or full professor).  
 
The Arts Program of NYUAD will offer an expansive, multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural curriculum for study of the arts and training in artistic practice within the context of a broad liberal arts education. Because of the unique nature of this enterprise, we are looking for extraordinary faculty who have either previously inaugurated programs or have the combination of qualities to successfully design and implement an inter-arts curriculum in a multi-cultural climate. Because our curriculum will strive for a combination of traditional Western training and local musical traditions, preference will be given to candidates with significant experience in the music of the Arabian Peninsula or a related area (Middle East, Persian Gulf, etc.).  Successful candidates will be comfortable with some combination of history and criticism and practical music-making, although the balance may differ from case to case.  They will teach both introductory "core" courses as well as advanced st
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. Preferred candidates will have an active agenda of research, publication, and undergraduate teaching. Ph.D. at time of appointment is expected.
 
The teaching load is three undergraduate courses per year (semester system), including one in the core curriculum. The terms of employment are competitive compared to U.S. benchmarks and include housing and educational subsidies for children.  Faculty may spend time at NYU in New York and at its other global campuses. The appointment may begin as soon as September 1, 2009 but could be delayed until September 1, 2010. 
 
New York University Abu Dhabi will be a partner campus of New York University, consisting of a highly selective liberal arts college, distinctive graduate programs, and a world-class Institute for advanced research, scholarship, and creative work.  NYU Abu Dhabi will recruit faculty of exceptional quality in teaching and in professional accomplishment. It will seek students of demonstrated excellence and remarkable potential from across the globe. It will offer undergraduate and graduate degrees, and extraordinary opportunities for research and for creative work across the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Engineering. Situated at a new crossroads of the world, it will have the resources and commitment to become a leading center of intellectual pursuit, collaboration, and impact.
  
Moreover, NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi will be integrally connected, together forming the foundation of a unique global network university, actively linked as well to NYU’s study and research sites on five continents.  NYU Abu Dhabi's first class of students will arrive in fall 2010; its research and public programs have commenced this fall.
 
The review of applications will begin on December 1, 2008 and will continue until the positions are filled.  Send vita, statement of research and teaching interests, representative publications and three letters of reference via email to [insert email address], or send a hard copy to: NYUAD Arts Search Committee, Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Science, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, Room 910, New York, NY 10003-6688.  Information concerning the faculty, programs, facilities and benefits of NYU Abu Dhabi, can be obtained at: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/. NYU Abu Dhabi is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer.