Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Present-day Arts
Tier 2
University for the Present-day Arts at Simon Fraser College
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings St.
Vancouver British Columbia V6B 1H4
Canada
The School for the Up to date Arts (SCA) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) invites programs for a Tier 2 Canada Investigation Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Contemporary Arts. This tenure-monitor place is intended for candidates with an outstanding study history at the Assistant or Affiliate Professor amount (or these who possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed to these ranges). The start out date of this posture is expected to be spring 2025.
Occupying the ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh, the SCA is guided by SFU’s framework for reconciliation, and aspires to make spaces and resources for decolonization by way of arts-based mostly exercise and research. With these aims in brain, we invite candidates whose exploration centres Indigenous views, epistemologies, and/or practices.
At the main of the SCA’s mission is a determination to collaboration and interdisciplinarity. With the recognition that modern Indigenous analysis and practices typically transcend traditional categories in the arts, we are open to a various vary of candidates in just one or extra areas, including theatre/performance and generation/style and design, tunes/sound, movie/movie, dance, and visible artwork. The suitable applicant will create on the SCA’s motivation to interdisciplinarity and cultivate possibilities for collaboration equally inside the university and in the broader neighborhood.
Applicant requirements

The thriving applicant is predicted to add meaningfully to the SCA’s study strengths and to assistance sustain the collegial atmosphere within the School. The investigation software will support SFU’s Strategic Study Program, the objectives of which involve: advancing neighborhood-centred local weather innovation supporting health and wellness of people today, populations and communities expanding the foundations of know-how and knowing our origins strengthening democracy, justice, fairness and instruction and transforming business and economies by know-how, management, and plan. The Chairholder will be envisioned to maintain an excellent system of exploration and a powerful history of grants funding. Awareness mobilization to the scholarly community, qualified groups, the basic general public, and other stakeholders, as suitable, is expected. Shown expertise in raising range in the candidate’s recent institutional setting, and in curriculum, is also an asset.
Working experience mentoring fairness-looking for pupils is anticipated, and experience mentoring fairness-seeking school is an asset. Although 50 % educating relief relative to regular school customers will be presented to the Chairholder, the thriving candidate will be envisioned to make significant contributions to the educating mission of the SCA, which includes supervising and helping to protected economic assist for graduate pupils.
Appointment to a continuing school placement in the SCA demands an MFA or PhD finished by the time of appointment in a area or willpower of shown relevance.
To reaffirm our motivation to raising range and confronting institutional underrepresentation, we are restricting this chance to candidates who establish as Indigenous, as permitted by Portion 42 of the B.C. Human Rights Code. Applicants are requested to articulate lived encounter as Indigenous people and/or interactions to Indigenous communities.
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About the Faculty for the Modern day Arts

Situated in just one of downtown Vancouver’s most dynamic and numerous neighbourhoods. the School for the Modern day Arts (SCA) at SFU features a one of a kind curriculum in which studio courses in dance, movie, songs/sound, theatre/performance, creation/style, and visible art are integrated with the historic and theoretical examine of the arts. The SCA presents BFAs in Dance, Film, Tunes & Audio, Theatre & Functionality, Manufacturing & Structure, and Visible Art, as well as a BA in Artwork, General performance & Cinema Experiments. At the graduate stage, we offer you an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and an MA in Present-day Arts. Our most recent method is the PhD in Contemporary Arts, which presents a distinctive prospect to go after substantial-stage scholarly and/or practice-dependent investigation.
