Associate Professorship in Anthropology With a Special Responsibility for External Partnerships

The Department of Anthropology, part of the School of Culture and Society, invites applications for the position of Associate Professor in Anthropology. The associate professorship is a permanent full-time (37h/w) position that begins 01.01.26 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Place of employment: Aarhus University, Department of Anthropology, Moesgård Alle 20, 8270 Højbjerg, Denmark.

The position

We are seeking a colleague who is passionate about research and/or their regional and thematic specialization, a scholar who will contribute to strengthening our cross-sector partnerships, benefiting in this way our educational programs, students, and our research impact. Your research could fall under the remit of organizational anthropology, anthropology of development, or business anthropology, or you may have worked or conducted research within corporate settings. The important thing for us is that you have a solid research profile and a real interest in, and ideally experience with, building bridges between students and the labor market. In this capacity, the applicant will be expected to work in close coordination with the department’s existing external relations unit MANTRA and strengthen our strategic sector collaborations. The applicant will furthermore be expected to work with the Head of Department and the educational coordinators to develop our educational programs.

The Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology offers a welcoming atmosphere, a close-knit and collegial environment, a superb student population, explorative and internationally orientated research and teaching environments, and good possibilities for career development, project funding, and administrative support at the school and the faculty levels.

The Department of Anthropology is one of Europe's largest and most vibrant teaching and research environments within its field. Scientific staff currently consists of 27 associate and full professors, 13 assistant professors and postdocs, and 28 PhD-fellows, we are also the temporary home of a number of visiting and affiliated researchers.

We are an open and dynamic community of staff and students that explores the fascinating diversity of the worlds that humans inhabit and addresses the burning issues of our time, developing new theoretical and methodological approaches along the way in order to understand and tackle them. We have broad collaborations with various disciplines, including philosophy and history of ideas, biology, and medicine and host numerous externally funded research projects. Our research is critically engaged attending to contemporary issues on a local and global scale while seeking to push the boundaries of the state-of-the-art within our field. See a more detailed description of our research activities here: Research. The department is located at the Moesgaard Campus in the beautiful woodlands south of the city of Aarhus, adjacent to Moesgaard Museum.

The work environment

As a collegial environment, we emphasize the importance of mutual support and non-hierarchical interaction among all academic and non-academic staff. We are deeply passionate about our educational programs, and we are excited about our students, which is easy because they are brilliant, curious, and brave. We care about each other. Applicants are expected to contribute to the department’s academic and social environment, and the person appointed will therefore be expected to be present at the department a minimum of three days a week, in accordance with school policy. 

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