The Museum Studies Program in the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University seeks to hire an Assistant Professor to lead the program’s collections management track; teach core courses in collections management on topics including: acquisitions, accessioning, deaccessioning, numbering, documentation, collection management systems, and regulations, paperwork, and courier options for incoming and outgoing loans; and to develop courses related to other key areas of interest. This is a full-time, 9-month, non-tenure accruing position beginning as early as Fall 2027 with a renewable three-year contract. The position accrues benefits offered to full-time faculty including eligibility for fellowship and sabbatical leave, University funding competitions, and promotions.
Within Museum Studies, we are thinking seriously about how to use our position as one of the biggest and oldest programs nationally to ground ethical, socially responsible practice in all aspects of museum work. We are particularly interested in emerging concerns in the museum field including caring for/stewardship of culturally sensitive materials; provenance research; cultural property law and ethics; inquiry into what is collected and preserved; questions of access; approaches to repatriation; ethics related to collections data; or technology use in collections management.
We are highly committed to recruiting faculty of the highest caliber who have thrived in different environments. We are interested in applicants who are able to work effectively with students, faculty, and staff from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.