Anthropology Instructors

Employee Group:
**Faculty (Kwantlen Faculty Association)**
- Hours of Work (BCGEU):
- # of openings:
**2**
- Hours Per Week (BCGEU):
- Pay Level:
**Faculty Pay Scale**
- Days of Work (BCGEU):
- Employment Type:
**Permanent Full Time**
- Internal Closing Date:
**February 16, 2024**
- Travel Frequency:
- External Closing Date:
**February 16, 2024**
- Competition ID:
**3174**

**Kwantlen Polytechnic University**

**ANTHROPOLOGY INSTRUCTORS - Competition ID: 3174**

**POSITION TYPE**: One full-time Regular Faculty Member (100%), and one non-Regular (50%).
**POSITION START**: May 1, 2024

**ABOUT THIS ROLE**

The position is for one 100% regular faculty position which is a total of eight courses per year, and one 50% non-regular faculty position (May 2024 - April 2025). These positions will involve teaching both introductory and advanced courses. As part of a full course load in the department, the teaching rotation includes multiple sections of our introductory course on Social and Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 1100).
- Applied Archaeology Field School
- Ethnographic Field School
- Museum Lab
- Cultural Resource Management Practicum
- Collaborative Anthropological Research Projects

Please also indicate interest and ability in teaching one or more of the following:

- ANTH 1100 - Social & Cultural Anthropology (required)
- ANTH 1200 - Biological Anthropology
- ANTH 1300 - Archaeology

Please also mention any applied skills that might work well for an upper-level course, such as grant-writing, conflict resolution, user-design experience and/or emerging Archaeology methods.

Teaching for both, will take place in the Summer and Fall terms. This will also include a Spring ‘non-teaching’ term in which the instructor will be able to spend time on professional development, research, experiential learning projects, community-building, and vacation time. Members of the Anthropology department also regularly participate in a range of service initiatives, which have included the Research Ethics Board, KPU Senate, Faculty of Arts committees, and Articulation committees.

More information concerning the working conditions for a faculty member are outlined in Article 12 of the Kwantlen Faculty Association (KFA) Collective Agreement

**OVERVIEW**:
The name ‘Kwantlen’ comes from the Kwantlen First Nation in whose traditional territory the university is located. The word 'Kwantlen' means Tireless Runner and is reflected in the university's motto: "through tireless effort, knowledge, and understanding.” Chief Joe Gabriel of the Kwantlen First Nation bestowed the name on the institution, resulting in Kwantlen First Nation and Kwantlen Polytechnic University having a long history of partnership

The University's campuses are located on the traditional and ancestral territories of the q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo), sc̓əwaθən (Tsawwassen), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Peoples. Kwantlen Polytechnic University values current and emergent relationships with Indigenous communities and is embarking on a pathway to addressing systemic change.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a leader in innovative, interdisciplinary education with a teaching-focused mandate. As a special purpose teaching university with an open access mandate, KPU offers all learners opportunities to achieve the highest standards of academic performance.

**DEPARTMENT**:
KPU’s Anthropology department grounds itself in community, culture, and well-being. We recognize that the discipline of Anthropology has had a role in perpetuating western colonial power and the department is committed to embarking on truthful decolonization. We are committed to the journey of creating safer spaces for learning and unlearning related to Indigenous ways of knowing.

All three department sub-disciplines are working in our classrooms to foster ethical community-building and positive social change within the classroom, the department, and beyond. The shift towards mindfully supporting and strengthening decolonization is a departmental aspiration and one which includes storying, dialogue, and collaboration.

We are expanding and deepening our relationships with local Indigenous nations, territories, and communities. We see land and place-based thinking, learning, and relationship-building as integral to disciplinary transformation.

Our current local relationships:

- KPU Anthropology department has run the Applied Archaeology Field School since 2009 in collaboration with Nlaka'pamux communities in the Fraser Canyon.
- The Anthropology department has worked collaboratively with experiential learning for Anthropology and NGO and Nonprofit Studies students. Projects have included first-person interviews and research for Indigenous community initiatives.

**FACULTY OF ARTS**

Within KPU, the Faculty of Arts has over 6000 full-time students and over 400 faculty members from across