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Assistant or Associate Professor

Required Qualifications

Doctorate in composition or comparable experience/artistic distinction.  Creative work of high caliber.  Experience teaching music.

Preferred Qualifications

Collegiate experience teaching composition.  Collegiate experience teaching analysis and theory.

Responsibilities & Requirements

Maintain an active compositional career as demonstrated by productivity as a composer, performances, and recordings.  The faculty member will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in music composition, theory, analysis and in other possible areas of interest.  Responsibilities will also include advising graduate students and departmental and university service.

Special Notes

This is a tenure track position.  FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA.  Internal and external search to occur simultaneously.  Anticipated Start Date: September 1, 2018.

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Application Procedure

Those interested in this position should fill out an online Applicant Information Survey, submit a State Employment Application, cover letter and resume/CV by clicking Apply.  Alternately, you may submit your application package to the departmental address or fax below.

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Daniel Weymouth
Chair of Composer Search
Music
3304 Staller Center
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5475
Fax: (631)632-7404

Campus Description

Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island's scenic North Shore.  Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff.  SBU is a comprehensive research-intensive university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes 34 public universities among its 62 members.  SBU consists of 12 schools and colleges and a teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art healthcare in the Long Island region.  SBU also manages and performs joint research with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast, and shares doctoral programs with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a world-renowned molecular biology institute.  Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, New York, the Humanities Institute, and the Southampton Arts Program, and with endeavors that extend to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, SBU sustains an international reputation that cuts across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Official Job Title: Assistant or Associate Professor
REF#: F-9842-17-12
Campus: Stony Brook West Campus
Department: Music
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Posting Start Date: 01/02/2018
Posting End Date: 02/15/2018

Applications for this position must be received, as specified in the Application Procedure Section, no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on 02/15/2018, unless specifically noted otherwise in the Special Notes Section.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Stony Brook University is committed to excellence in diversity and the creation of an inclusive learning, and working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information,veteran status and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

If you need a disability-related accommodation, please call the university office of institutional diversity and equity at (631)632-6280.

Job Category: Faculty and Librarian
Posting Date: 01/02/2018