The growing number of students, investments in research and committed Faculty and University support enable the Section of Art history to hire a full-time assistant professor (Universitair Docent) in Modern and Contemporary Art History. We are looking for an engaged scholar who is able to relate modern and contemporary art to the challenges facing contemporary and future societies and who values and expands cooperation with museums, art spaces and the wider heritage field.
The candidate teaches in Bachelor Art History, in the Master track Modern and Contemporary Art with a focus on curating and mediating, collecting and criticism and in the Research master Art History which focuses more on global, digital and material-technical perspectives.
Utrecht University has a teaching qualification system for university lecturers, and candidates are required to obtain the Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO) within two years if they are not already in possession of one.
Candidates are expected to be proficient in both Dutch and English; non-Dutch-speaking candidates will need to master the Dutch language on an academic level within two years.
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