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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Asian Urban Silk-Road

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University of Hong Kong invites applications for appointment as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Asian Urban Silk-Road in the Faculty of Social Sciences (as tenure home) and the Faculty of Arts, to commence from July 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility of renewal and consideration for tenure before the expiry of a second three-year fixed-term contract.

University of Honkong seeks energetic and productive candidates to strengthen their research and teaching capacity in the area of the Urban Silk-Road, particularly to enhance their understanding of the new patterns of trade, work and habitation imagined by China's One Belt One Road strategy.

Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree in a discipline in the Social Sciences or Arts and should have teaching and research experience in one or preferably more of the following fields of specialization: urban geography, urban sociology, urban politics, urban history, and/or urban cultural and religious studies, and a strong track record of research, teaching, and obtaining research grants.  Special knowledge and expertise in the culture, languages, religions, society, and politics of the borderland and frontier along the Silk-Road is an definite advantage. The appointee is expected to participate in teaching and research activities across the two faculties of arts and social sciences. 

Deadline for submission of applications is March 31, 2017. 

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