Current Faculty Job Postings


This page lists all the currently open faculty jobs at Bates College. For information on staff positions at Bates, please see the listings on the Human Resources website.


Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana: The Africana Program at Bates College invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position, beginning in August 2024. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, but are especially interested in those whose work focuses on Blackness through feminist, queer, and global lenses, including but not limited to the United States. PhD must be in hand before beginning the job in August 2024.


Assistant Professor of Anthropology: The Bates College Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track position in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning in August 2024; we are open to considering applications from candidates who are pre-tenure or recently tenured.


Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology: The Department of Biology invites applications for a one-year full time Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, beginning August 1, 2024. Ph.D. is required by the start date. The department is seeking an organismal biologist whose teaching and research center around terrestrial animals.


Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology: The Department of Biology invites applications for a one-year full time Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, beginning August 1, 2024. Ph.D. is required by the start date. The department is seeking a biologist whose teaching and research is centered around microbiology.


Visiting Assistant Professor(s) of Chemistry and Biochemistry: The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Bates College, a private, highly selective liberal arts college in Maine, invites applications for three one-year Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) positions to begin August 1, 2024. Each position carries a five-course annual teaching load. Curricular needs in the department include General Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Biochemistry (course descriptions found here.)


Assistant Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and Physics: The Bates College Department of Earth and Climate Sciences (EACS) and the Department of Physics & Astronomy invites applications for a jointly-appointed, tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational Atmospheric, Oceanic, or Climate modeling, beginning August 2024. The new faculty member will be expected to teach at the intersection of earth and climate sciences and physics and to establish an active research program involving undergraduate students.


Visiting Assistant Professor of History: The Bates College Department of History invites applications for a one-year, full-time Visiting Assistant Professor of History with a specialization in the history of Sub-Saharan Africa, beginning August 1, 2024.


Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies: The Latin American and Latinx Studies Program at Bates College invites applications for a full-time, non-renewable, Visiting Assistant Professor position in Latin American and Latinx Studies to begin in August of 2024. We welcome applicants from the social sciences with broad interdisciplinary teaching and research expertise in Latinx, Afro-Latinx, and/or Indigenous Latinx people and identities. The candidate’s academic home will be the Program in Latin American and Latinx Studies.


Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics: The Bates College Mathematics Department invites applications for a three-year visiting position at the rank of assistant professor, beginning August 1, 2024. Candidates should have a commitment to undergraduate education and should show promise of excellence and innovation in teaching.  Teaching load is five courses per academic year and includes courses from the introductory to the advanced level.  Faculty at Bates also advise senior theses and capstone seminars.


Assistant Professor of Music: The Department of Music is pleased to announce a position for an Assistant Professor in Music Performance with a specialization in Western classical music, broadly defined, beginning August 1, 2024. We see this position as an opportunity for the Bates Music department to build the profile of our performance curriculum in exciting new directions, and to build an expansive, critical, and inclusive approach to the Western classical tradition appropriate to our present cultural moment.


Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics: The Department of Politics at Bates College invites applications for a one-year visiting position in comparative politics, with a particular interest in the politics of the Middle East. We are open to a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.


Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology: The Bates College Department of Psychology invites applications for a one-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, with a focus on clinical or counseling psychology. The position begins on August 1, 2024.