Assistant Professor in Applied-Biological Anthropology
Job no: 542401
Location: San José, California, USA
Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as established by the
CSU Salary Schedule . See Benefits Summary for details about the CSU’s excellent employment benefits.
Anticipated annual salary range for Assistant Professor is $86K-$90K.
Target Start Date: August 18, 2025
Application Deadline: December 1, 2024 (Applications accepted until filled or closed)
The Anthropology Department at San José State University is pleased to announce a search for an Assistant Professor in Applied-Biological Anthropology, to begin in August 2025. We are seeking applicants with expertise in bioinformatics, data analytics, applied robotics, artificial intelligence, health equity, or design. The Department is particularly interested in candidates with expertise in innovative data science and AI approaches that can be applied to a range of topics such as health and disease, epigenetics, hominid evolution, biological variation, genomics, early human migration, forensic anthropology, demography, climate-induced human migration, ergonomics and product design, or human-robotic co-evolution. The successful candidate will teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses that might include: medical anthropology, modernity and disease, human evolution, primates, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, osteology, applied anthropology, culture and adaptation, and quantitative methods.
The Anthropology Department has gained national recognition for its commitment to applying anthropology in an integrated, innovative way—by reconnecting the discipline’s subfields, encouraging interdisciplinary approaches, and collaborating with organizations. Anthropology faculty take a student-centered approach, providing dedicated advising, professional development, and career consultation. Students apply social science skills for a wide range of public, private, and non-profit organizations, and faculty encourage the development and implementation of projects that address real-world problems for partner organizations. Our faculty and students benefit from the Integrative Anthropology Laboratory, a facility that accommodates research projects in biological, archaeological, and cultural anthropology. (For more information, visit our website: sjsu.edu/anthropology/.)
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