POSITION: Teaching Fellow 1 (pay code GSU003)
COURSE LISTING: Anthropology 1906
COURSE TITLE: Care in Critical Times
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Andi Wright
COURSE SCHEDULE: Fall 2024, Thursdays 12-2:45 - second half of class serves as student section
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
What is care? How can and do communities mobilize care as a social intervention, political act, and tool for building intimacy, healing, and hope? Now, more than ever, it is imperative that we care for ourselves and our communities, but caring is not an apolitical or individual act and we must analyze the inherent inequalities and social dimensions of what it means to give and receive care. Employing a feminist mode of inquiry and an engaged anthropology approach, this course requires students to not only ask how they might engage in caring acts with their own communities, but to complete a locally based community project that brings care, in all its multifariousness, to the fore. Readings will focus on ethnographic, scholarly, and public-facing works that illustrate how culture, social relations, and systems of power shape the experiences, roles, practices, and interactions of individuals and their communities in the exchange of care.
REQUIRED DUTIES:
- Read care journals each week and provide comments
- Keep track of student health days and general attendance
- Attend all lectures
- Prepare and handle a whole class period (can modify syllabus readings if desired)
- Responsible for the last 30-45 mins of class (lead discussion or activity).
- Complete readings for each class period
- Weekly student hours (~1 hour week) and weekly TF meeting with instructor (~30 mins week)
- Grade and give feedback on assignments by agreed upon deadlines
- Research and suggest virtual teaching innovations and activities
- Assist generally and technologically with class meetings and student projects
- Assist with devising prompts for remaining care journals
- Come prepared to share a current event each week
- Support students in their care with the community engaged scholarship projects
WORK SCHEDULE: Exact hours to be determined with Supervisor
PREFERRED SKILLS: Experience teaching controversial topics, including gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity; basic knowledge of U.S. culture and history.
TO APPLY: please send your CV and teaching evaluations (if available) to wgs@fas.harvard.edu
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Open until filled
START DATE: August 2024 (Exact date to be confirmed)
END DATE: December 2024 (Exact date to be confirmed)
WORK LOCATION: Cambridge Campus
PAY RATE: In line with HGSU-UAW contract (Junior Rate $5,860) & (Senior Rate $6,575)
PAY FREQUENCY: Bi-weekly
NON-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT: Harvard University prohibits discrimination in the employment or treatment of qualified individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is covered by THE HGSU-UAW collective bargaining agreement if filled by a Harvard student.