Academic Job Opportunities
Course Lecturer Opportunities - Fall 2013 / Winter 2014
The Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University, is inviting applications to teach courses in History in Fall 2013 and Winter 2014.
Applications: Please submit a letter of interest addressed to Prof. Elizabeth Elbourne, one letter of reference, and, if applicable, a letter of support from your supervisor (applications from PhD students or Postdoctoral Fellows). Teaching evaluations from one course - either as a course lecturer or as a teaching assistant - should also be submitted. All documents are to be sent by e-mail to Jobsearch [dot] history [at] mcgill [dot] ca.
Deadline to Apply: Tuesday, July 9, 2013.
Salary: $7200/course (including vacation pay).
Provisions of Contract Agreement: Details of the contract are available on the Academic Personnel website - http://www.mcgill.ca/apo/classifications/other/course-lecturer/contract/. Please note item 3 in particular.
**Calendar of dates for 2013-14: http://www.mcgill.ca/importantdates/key-dates/future-dates/2013-14. The schedule noted below may vary due to statutory holidays.
Fall 2013:
HIST 211 – American History to 1865.
Description: Introduction to the history of colonial North America and the United States up to the Civil War, in their Atlantic context.
Expected enrollment: 150
Schedule: Monday/Wednesday/Friday - 08:35 – 09:25 am **
HIST 328 – The Qing Empire.
Description: Explores the origins and crises faced by China's final dynasty. Topics include Manchu conquest and identity, questions of empire and expansion, central and provincial government, the place of women in Qing China, encounters with Europe and the Americas, the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, and Boxer uprising.
Expected enrollment: 70
Schedule: Tuesday/Thursday – 08:35 – 09:55 am **
Winter 2014:
HIST 338 – Twentieth-Century China.
Description: Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
Expected enrollment: 80
Schedule: Monday/Wednesday/Friday – 8:35 – 9:25 am **