From: Jennifer Prewitt-Freilino <jprewitt(a)risd.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 9, 2022 11:45 AM
To: Pagano, Allie <alexandra_pagano(a)harvard.edu>
Subject: RISD Job Announcement
Dear Allie,
I am writing to ask you to forward this job
announcement<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__career…
to any of your current or recent PhD graduates who may be interested in a two-year
visiting position within the History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences (HPSS) department at
the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). I will be serving as Interim Dean of Liberal
Arts for two years, and this position is a replacement for me during that time. We will
begin reviewing applications May 31. Any questions can be directed to the HPSS department
head, Lindsay French (lfrench@risd.edu<mailto:lfrench@risd.edu>) or to me
directly.
We seek candidates who can demonstrate quality undergraduate teaching, teach broadly in
their field, and represent various aspects of their discipline within the department. We
seek a scholar who can teach artists and designers about the role of psychological
processes in human experience, grounding this understanding in classic and contemporary
psychological theories and methodologies. Subfield is open, but ideal candidates would
have a broad background in social, developmental, cross-cultural psychology, or related
subfields. We welcome colleagues whose work engages with issues of gender and/or
sexuality, media studies, political psychology, stereotyping and prejudice, or examines
diversity within a given culture or cross culturally.
All candidates should demonstrate quality teaching, and have the ability to contribute to
our undergraduate
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Interested candidates could also be considered for teaching in one of our divisional
master degree programs in Nature/Culture Sustainability
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and Global Arts and
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The suitable candidate will have undergraduate teaching experience and a Ph.D. in hand in
the field of psychology and/or behavioral sciences.
Rhode Island School of Design is an undergraduate and graduate college of art and design
with approximately 2,400 graduate and undergraduate students. Over one third of our
population is international. HPSS is a multidisciplinary department within the Division
of Liberal Arts at RISD. Our students are art and design majors who take one third of
their courses in the Liberal Arts. Learn more about the department here:
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Full time faculty teach six courses a year: two lecture courses (capped at 25 students),
one innovative 5-week wintersession course (21 students) one seminar (capped at 15) and
two sections of our required first year seminar on Issues in History, Philosophy and the
Social Sciences (designed differently within specific parameters by each faculty
member).
Term Appointments function as full members of the department; they participate in
departmental decision-making and take on committee assignments.
Thanks!
Jennifer
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Jennifer Prewitt-Freilino
Interim Dean of Liberal Arts (starting July 1, 2022)
Associate Professor of Psychology
Rhode Island School of Design
jprewitt@risd.edu<mailto:jprewitt@risd.edu>
401-454-6693
Pronouns: she/her/hers