Job Description

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ECONOMICS

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Competition No.

25.10.278

CATEGORY

SALARY

CLOSING DATE

Full-Time Tenure-Track Commensurate with qualifications and experience. New hires will normally be placed within the first 8 steps of the Assistant Professor salary table. A review of applications will begin November 12, 2025, and continue until a suitable candidate is found.

About Us

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MacEwan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton's diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Metis people, MacEwan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, MacEwan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement. We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities.



Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 55 programs to more than 20,000 full- and part-time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature. Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, MacEwan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.

Opportunity

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The Department of Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science invites applications for an entry-level, full-time, tenure-track appointment in Economics at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2026, subject to final budgetary approval.



You will play a vital role in enhancing the department's teaching focus and will contribute to the delivery and continuous improvement of the Economics program. You are willing to teach at all

levels of the curriculum, particularly senior-level courses in Financial Economics or Quantitative Economics.



You must have, or be close to completion of, a terminal degree in Economics, an ongoing research program, and will demonstrate a primary commitment to undergraduate teaching. Preferred candidates will have post-secondary teaching experience that provides evidence of excellence or promise of excellence in teaching.



You will submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching dossier (including recent teaching evaluations), a statement of research interests, and a sample of scholarly work.



Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the Department Chair to provide three (3) letters of reference sent directly from referees.



Only selected candidates will be required to submit official transcripts sent directly from the institutions where you completed your degrees.



Questions about this opportunity may be addressed to Gaelan Murphy, Department Chair, at murphyc23@macewan.ca.