Job Description
Founded in 1854, Hamline was the first university in Minnesota and among the first coeducational institutions in the nation. Hamline University provides a world-class education for undergraduate and graduate students. Our faculty, staff, and students cultivate an ethic of civic responsibility, social justice, and inclusive leadership and service. Hamline University is an Equal Opportunity employer. Hamline University does not discriminate on the basis of race; color; religion; creed; sex; national origin; marital status; familial status; status with regard to public assistance; membership or activity in a local human rights commission; disability; age; protected veteran status; or any other status protected by applicable law in its education or employment programs or activities. The University will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. The Anthropology Program in the Division of Social Sciences at Hamline University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biological anthropology to begin Fall 2026. Our preferred candidate will be able to enhance our programs strengths in applied anthropology, community-engaged research, and climate studies. We encourage applications from biological anthropologists whose work engages living communities, fieldwork in the global south, ongoing debates about repatriation of human remains, or negotiations of history, ethnicity and race. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment as a scholar-educator to the liberal arts and interdisciplinary education, and will be able to help our students develop in completing public-facing research, learning to work across diverse communities and cultures, and engaging in knowledge-based advocacy. Candidates must be familiar with biocultural approaches in anthropology and be willing to teach a wide variety of classes that are the hallmark of work in a small liberal arts college. Required courses in