<p>Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) invites applications for a critical-review track Assistant or Associate Professor position in Photography. This search is part of RISD's "Race in Art & Design" cluster hire initiative, and the successful candidate will carry the title of 'Schiller Family Professorship in Race in Art & Design', with an appointment to begin in the fall of 2025. Rank will be dependent on professional status and teaching experience.</p> <p>RISD recognizes principles of social equity, inclusion, and diversity as fundamental to its academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require ongoing attention to difference and expansion of the forms of knowledge from which our curricula originate. RISD is engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value applicants whose pedagogical and professional experiences have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We encourage applicants whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) centers on bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. We are eager to welcome applicants who can help advance the institution's social equity, inclusion, and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and long standing, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, and first-generation college students.</p> <p>Central to the implementation of our evolving social equity and inclusion initiatives, this hire aims to grow our cross-institutional expertise in discourses tied to questions of race, colonization, decolonization, post-coloniality, and cultural representation, as well as in material practices of resistance.</p> <p>As part of this intentional hiring, we seek faculty whose expertise in research, creative practice, or scholarship demonstrates a commitment to works and bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. Preferably, the applicant's pedagogical approach is centered on the photographic image and interdisciplinary practice, such as expertise in performance, installation, and moving image (among other forms). Candidates should be prepared to develop syllabi that speak to varied cultural fluencies for studio and seminar courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and to lead classes and critiques that model constructive, inclusive discussions and encourage students to grow creatively and intellectually.</p>