POSITION OVERVIEW

Salary range: The current salary range for the Assistant-level position is $80,800 - $128,700 (9-month academic year salary). However, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions.
Anticipated start: July 1, 2026

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The University of California, Berkeley seeks applicants for one tenure-track, Assistant Professor to join the School of Social Welfare. We seek a scholar who is, or is becoming, a leading voice on anti-Blackness and its impact across social domains, with a demonstrated commitment to advancing anti-racism within and beyond the academy, in the U.S. or globally. This scholar is attuned to professional social work practice in areas that center Anti-Black Racism, Social Inclusion, Structural Intersectionality, and Critical Epistemologies, and also prioritizes a focus on Social Justice and Structural Change within and across social services, institutions, communities, families, and individuals. The scholar may focus on anti-blackness in the US and the African Diaspora: abolition studies, critical race approaches to data science and mapping, anti-racism and anti-blackness, social inequality, racial socialization, racial capitalism, trans/queer/feminist theory, and critical disability studies among others.
University of California, Berkeley is committed to building a community of scholars whose work contributes to contemporary efforts to strengthen democratic structures that are currently in crisis (e.g., through the suppression of voting rights; hyper-criminalization; persistent wealth inequality; highly segregated schools, and approaches to crime control). The Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion hiring initiative centers anti-blackness as a central organizing feature of social and political institutions in the US and globally, and as an expansive conceptual framework that draws attention to the systems and structures that delimit Black lives and enables us to interrogate how anti-blackness functions across and within racial/ethnic groups. We seek scholars who are leading or emerging voices in conversations on anti-blackness as it relates to outcomes in various social domains and who possess a demonstrated commitment to advancing anti-racism both inside and outside the academy, whether in the United States or internationally.
This initiative is especially interested in applicants whose research can contribute to theoretical, conceptual, and empirical understandings of how social institutions can provide for the safety and well-being of a diverse group of people in a democratic society as it reckons with its roots in racism, anti-blackness and white supremacy. We invite applicants with interdisciplinary expertise in critical epistemologies, like critical race theory, and the Black intellectual and Black feminist traditions. The position’s duties include: scholarly experience includes a demonstrated commitment to this research arc and publications, undergraduate and graduate teaching/mentoring, and administrative service, practice and public intellectualism/partnerships along these lines.
UC Berkeley is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We encourage candidates who have had non-traditional career paths, who have taken time off for family reasons, or have achieved excellence in careers outside academia, to apply.
For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit: (http://ofew.berkeley.edu/new-faculty)

QUALIFICATIONS

Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
A PhD or equivalent international degree at the time of application.

Additional qualifications (required at time of start)

• A PhD from an accredited school or university, or equivalent as recognized by Office Of Social Work Accreditation (OSWA) or International Social Work Degree Recognition and Evaluation Service (ISWDRES);
• An established or promising record of substantial scholarly impact in their areas of interest;
• General expertise in the fields of social work and social welfare;
• Evidence or promise of high impact, funded scholarship.

Preferred qualifications

• An MSW degree with at least two years of post-MSW practice experience;
• Experience in direct practice, research, or/and teaching;
• Potential to secure resources for research;
• Capacity for interdisciplinary research and teaching; additional linkages to allied fields are also desirable (e,g, public policy, public health, social sector management, data science, law);
• Skills essential for mentoring students and engaging community leaders;
• Experience removing barriers and supporting the success and participation of all students;
• Evidence or future plans to show UC Berkeley’s principles of community are reflected in their research, teaching and service;
• Commitment to participating in collegial teamwork and university citizenship needed for a range of leadership roles in a public institution.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Document requirements
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Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
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Cover Letter (Optional)
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Statement of Research - Please discuss research expertise, accomplishments, and proposed plans. This can include, for example, highlights of your findings/contributions, awards, reviews and recognitions, and inclusive research practices that promote the excellence of your research.
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Statement of Teaching and Mentoring - Please discuss prior teaching experience, teaching approach, and future teaching interests. This can include, for example, specific efforts and future plans to support the success of all students through an inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy, and removing barriers to promote equitable access and advancement. Please also include mentoring of students, including undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars.
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Service Statement - Please discuss specific prior and proposed academic, professional and/or public service activities. This can include, for example, participating in professional or scientific associations, serving on committees that advance department, campus or discipline goals, and conducting outreach activities that can remove barriers and increase participation of academics in your field.
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Teaching Evaluations - Please provide a summary table that includes course title, institution, intended audience (e.g., lower division undergraduates, upper division undergraduate majors), enrollment, evaluation response rate, and summary score(s) followed by an appended series of full reports of quantitative and qualitative feedback from students). If formal university teaching evaluations are unavailable, please submit less formal feedback received on any teaching, training, or mentoring you have completed.
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Publication/Writing Sample #1 - Journal article, book chapter, dissertation chapter, or other appropriate products.
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Authorization of Information Release - A reference check will be completed only if you are selected as the candidate to whom the hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer. Download, complete, sign, and upload the Authorization to Release Information form

REFERENCE REQUIREMENTS

• 3 required (contact information only)
  Finalists will be asked to provide letters of recommendation, which will be treated confidentially. We will seek your permission before contacting your letter-writers.
  Apply link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04998
  Help contact: d.schiller@berkeley.edu

Please refer the Job description for details