SCHOOL: Visual and Performing Arts
DEPARTMENT: Art
TENURE STATUS: Tenure Track
FLSA STATUS: Exempt
EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Full-time, 10 months
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
Seton Hill University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Art History. This appointment is for a generalist in Art History who will teach survey courses including History of Art, Twentieth Century Art, Renaissance Art, Contemporary Art, Global Art and American Art. This coursework supports a variety of Art majors in the BFA and BA programs, as well as cross-disciplinary, liberal arts majors. Applicants must have a strong commitment to teaching excellence, scholarship, student advisement, and university and community service. We are especially interested in applicants with demonstrated experience in successful university-level teaching, who can contribute to the Department by bringing a perspective, way of thinking, and/or a unique set of experiences that expand the field. This position includes advising, mentoring, curriculum development and recruitment for the Art History major. PhD in Art History required by time of appointment. August 1, 2026 start date.
RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:
- Teaching and advising
- Demonstration of content expertise in appropriate areas
- Effective design of instructional and assessment procedures
- Effective delivery of instruction
- Responsive to feedback
- Effective advises students toward meeting curricular requirements and developing career directions
- Demonstrates curricular leadership
- Integrates Setonian mission and values into teaching.
- Scholarship and Professional Activities
- Actively pursues ongoing professional development
- Active participation in advancing the discipline
- Employs a scholarly approach to pedagogy
- Service to the University
- Engages in positive collegial interactions
- Contributes to the university community, supporting a vibrant campus and the university mission
- Participates in co-curricular activities with students
- Models a commitment to the Setonian mission of transforming the world through support of mission initiatives or service to the community
- Acts in a leadership capacity to make significant contributions to support institutional structures and advance the mission of the university.
- PhD in Art History
- University teaching experience
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- University teaching experience
Required applicant materials include: Complete applications require a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, a statement of scholarship and research practice, undergraduate and graduate transcripts (copies acceptable for application), professional reference contact information and writing samples (not to exceed 30 pages).
Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Applications received by January 10, 2026 will receive priority consideration. Finalists will be required to submit a reflection on Seton Hill University's Mission Statement.Background checks will be performed on all new hires. Employment is conditional upon acceptable results of background checks and clearances.
