Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology with a Focus on Migration

Professors\‘ Appointment Consulting Service

Organisation/Company: University of Vienna

Department: Professors\‘ Appointment Consulting Service

Research Field: Other

Researcher Profile: Leading Researcher (R4)

Positions: Other Positions

Country: Austria

Application Deadline: 15 Apr 2025 – 23:59 (Europe/Vienna)

Type of Contract: Permanent

Job Status: Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme

Reference Number: 490-57

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

The University of Vienna is internationally renowned for its excellence in teaching and research, and counts more than 7,500 academics from all disciplines. This breadth of expertise offers unique opportunities to address the complex challenges of modern society, to develop comprehensive new approaches, and educate the problem-solvers of tomorrow from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology with a Focus on Migration

The position:

Migration, flight, and displacement are key challenges for subjects and societies and require a global perspective. We are seeking an outstanding candidate who has a clearly recognizable research profile in the anthropology of migration, and represents the discipline of social and cultural anthropology broadly. Through a focus on migration, the future professor contributes to the further development of the discipline at the University of Vienna. In teaching, the professorship represents social and cultural anthropology in a significant theoretical and methodological range. Extensive experience with ethnographic fieldwork and research on topics such as mobility, borders, transnationality, forced migration, memory, and/or place-making is expected.

Your academic profile:

• Proven leadership qualities
• Enthusiasm for excellent teaching and supervision at the bachelor\’s, master\’s, and doctoral level
• Willingness to take on organisational and administrative responsibilities within the Department, the Faculty, and/or the University

The University of Vienna expects the successful candidate to acquire, within three years, proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in bachelor’s programmes and for participation in university committees.

We offer:

• A dynamic research environment
• A wide range of research and teaching support services
• Attractive working conditions in a city with a high quality of life
• A “start-up package”, in particular for the initiation of research projects

Application documents:

Please submit a single PDF file (LastName_FirstName.pdf) containing the following information in English via email to the Dean of the Faculty, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Pol. Dr. Michaela Pfadenhauer ( ):

• Letter of motivation
• Positions held to date
• Relevant parental, family or other care times
• Commissions of trust
• Previous and current cooperation partners
• List of most important acquired third-party funding as principal investigator, and, if applicable, of inventions/patents
• List of most important scientific talks (max. 10)
• Teaching and mentoring
• List of publications and a link to your ORCID record
• Most important research achievements (max. 2 pages) and planned future research activities (max. 4 pages)
• Synopsis of five key publications with relevance to the position advertised
• Teaching and supervision statement
  • Teaching and supervision concept, including a description of the previous and planned priorities in academic teaching and supervision (max. 2 pages)
• Five key publications as electronic full-text version
• Teaching evaluations (if available, compiled into a single PDF file)

The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates.

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