Job Description

About JMU:

Mission
We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives.

Vision
To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world.

Who We Are
Located in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. With a population of just over 53,000, Harrisonburg is one of the most diverse communities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and inclusive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 20,000 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty.

JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. The university is committed to expanding diversity, fostering equity and inclusion, and supporting superlative teaching and scholarship. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research.



General Information:

The James Madison University School of Music seeks an outstanding teacher-scholar for our full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Musicology. We seek a candidate passionate about teaching a wide variety of courses both within and across traditional curricular boundaries. The successful candidate will demonstrate and maintain an active research agenda appropriate to JMU’s R2 institutional designation. All research specializations will be considered, particularly those that complement those of our current musicology and ethnomusicology faculty.



Duties and Responsibilities:

Teaching responsibilities include: courses in our innovative undergraduate musicology/ethnomusicology core curriculum; topical musicology seminars at the undergraduate and graduate level; doctoral-level courses in music history pedagogy; general education courses; advising undergraduate and doctoral research; and other possibilities according to the faculty member’s interests and expertise.



Qualifications:

Position Qualifications:
● PhD in Musicology. ABD candidates will be considered with the requirement that the degree must be completed before March 1, 2026
● Evidence of effective, creative, dynamic teaching
● Evidence of a clear research agenda with a growing record of peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations
● Experience teaching in musicology or related areas at the collegiate level
● Facility and interest in teaching across traditional curricular boundaries (e.g. musicology and ethnomusicology; popular music, jazz, art music, film music, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:
● At least three years teaching experience at the collegiate level
● Evidence of effective teaching at the graduate level
● Scholarly engagement with the pedagogy of music history, musicology, and ethnomusicology