DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
Competition No.
25.10.270
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 Nov 9, 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 just under 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 Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science invites applications for an entry-level, full-time, tenure-track appointment in Criminology at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2026, subject to final budgetary approval.
The Department of Sociology at MacEwan offers a General Sociology degree and a stream in Criminology.
You will have expertise in Criminology, Socio-Legal Studies, or Criminal Justice and will contribute to the Department's Criminology curriculum. You will demonstrate excellence, or clear promise of excellence, in teaching both junior and senior undergraduate level courses, and identify how you complement and enhance existing strengths in the Sociology program and contribute to MacEwan's Strategic Vision.
You must have, or be close to completion of, a terminal degree in Sociology, Criminology, Socio-Legal Studies, Criminal Justice, or a related field and will demonstrate a primary commitment to undergraduate teaching bolstered by an ongoing research program.
You will submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching dossier (including recent teaching evaluations), statement of research interests, a sample of scholarly work, unofficial academic transcripts, and the names and contact information of three professional referees.
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 Dr. Michael Gulayets, Department Chair of Sociology, at gulayetsm@macewan.ca.
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