UCR Department of Dance
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Position Description: Lecturer of African Diasporic Dance and Lecturer of Latin Social Dance
The Department of Dance at the University of California, Riverside is seeking to hire two (2) Lecturers to teach up to three 2-unit undergraduate, studio-based practice courses, or up to two 4-unit undergraduate, studio-based practice courses per quarter in the area of either West African, AfroContemporary and/or Afro Jazz Dance; OR Latin Social, Folklorico and/or Latin Contemporary Dance. These two appointments will begin in the Winter Quarter with instruction starting January 5, 2026, and concluding March 13, 2026; and continue into the Spring Quarter, which begins March 30, 2026, and concludes June 5, 2026. The appointments are subject to renewal based on a successful end-of-year evaluation.
Salary: Approximately $7,885 per 4-unit course, or $4,731.80 per 2-unit course, pending budgetary approval.
Responsibilities: The successful candidate for the Lecturer of African Diasporic Dance will teach studio-based practice courses in West African, Afro-Contemporary, and/or Afro-Jazz Dance. The successful candidate for the Lecturer of Latin Social Dance will teach studio-based practice courses in Latin Social, Afro-Latin, Folklorico, and/or Latin American Contemporary Dance. Courses are contingent upon enrollment and budget. The successful candidates may also be responsible for co-curating an annual festival of African Diasporic or Latin Social dance as an extension of their courses.
Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.F.A., or B.S.) and at least 5 years of relevant teaching experience are required qualifications. Previous college-level teaching experience strongly preferred. Preference will also be given to applicants who demonstrate a history of professional activity in the field and who can teach multiple levels within their area(s) of expertise.
Review of Applications: Review of applications will begin October 30, 2025. To ensure full consideration, materials should be received by the posted review date.
To apply: Submit a 2-page cover letter (cover letters should include a description of the applicant’s teaching experience), current CV, one sample course syllabus, one work sample, and demonstration of teaching excellence (e.g., teaching statement, course evaluations for up to three courses and/or a link to a video teaching sample), and a list of three references and their contact information. The department will solicit letters of recommendation from the references provided in AP Recruit after the shortlisted candidates have been selected.
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Miyaxwe (mee-yahh-weh, hello) — In the spirit of Rupert and Jeanette Costo’s founding relationship to our campus, we would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present and future. Today this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.
Here in the Department of Dance, we extend this to acknowledge the multiply fraught histories of this land. We recognize what was taken for this University to be built, including the enslaved labor and ongoing exploitations that have contributed significantly to the wealth in the U.S. that helped found the University of California, and the migrations and immigrant labor that have contributed significantly to this area. We register that members of our community have benefitted, and continue to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution’s founding in 1907. We also acknowledge the ancient relations of friendship, kinship and alliance between various local Native communities, and visitors to this region.
This acknowledgment is part of our Department’s commitments: to confront exclusions and attempted erasures of Indigenous, Black, and Brown peoples, and others; to accept/embrace/acknowledge peoples’ bodies in their wide range of capacities, abilities, forms, and qualities; to be radically inclusive of queer peoples and bodies in the world and in our field; to support peaceful human mobility across land and waters for all; to being good guests as we travel; to being in respectful relationship to the land wherever we are; and to building relationship with one another–including, for those of us who are not Native to these lands—becoming good allies, and accomplices. We continue to work creatively towards enacting practices and policies that register these histories and strengthen these layers of knowledge and ways of being.
–Achama (aw-chem-ahh, thank you)
