Adjunct Professor

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For more than fifty years UNC's Department of American Studies has explored US American culture from local, regional, national, and global perspectives. We are committed to interdisciplinary approaches that place American institutions as well as the histories, cultures, and contemporary experiences of American people at the center of academic study. Graduates of our department build careers in public history, arts, museums, and non-profits in addition to law, health, and business. The department serves as the home for undergraduate and graduate program in American Indian and Indigenous studies and a doctoral program in folklore.

The Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina seeks a scholar to teach AMST 275 Food and American Culture in the Spring semester 2026. In AMST 275, students explore the ways in which food shapes the politics and ethics of individuals and communities and is an increasingly important marker of social and cultural identities. Lessons for this course focus on the symbolic functions of food in the construction of personal, cultural, political, and community identity.

Candidates must have a PhD in American Studies, Food Studies, or a related degree. Teaching this course will involve developing the syllabus and reading assignments as well as planning and evaluating the research and writing assignments.

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