Adjunct Pool Anthropology - AY 2025-2026 - Military veterans preferred

Position Details

Position Summary

Portland State University, with its 49-acre downtown campus, is a comprehensive public university enrolling 21,000 students. PSU seeks to meet the needs of its increasingly diverse population through its curriculum, research, and community service activities. PSU’s mission is to provide access through the life span to a quality liberal education for undergraduates and an appropriate array of professional and graduate programs.

The Anthropology Department serves approximately 150 undergraduate majors and minors and offers classes of interest to undergraduate students from across campus. In addition to 5 full-time faculty, the department works with a cadre of about 15 talented and dedicated adjunct part-time faculty, many of whom have taught for the department for years.

Portland State University’s Anthropology Department invites applications for local Adjunct Instructors with expertise in core areas of anthropology and teaching experience to teach undergraduate sections of courses in anthropology.

Instructors must be qualified to teach courses in one or more of the following core areas of anthropology: Socio-cultural anthropology, archaeology, or biological anthropology.

M.S. or M.A. in Anthropology (or closely related field).
Previous teaching experience.
Successful completion of a background check.

Ph.D. in Anthropology (or closely related field). Previous experience teaching large undergraduate classes in anthropology.

• Creates an environment that acknowledges, encourages and celebrates differences.
• Functions and communicates effectively and respectfully within the context of varying beliefs, behaviors, orientations, identities and cultural backgrounds.
• Seeks opportunities to gain experience working and collaborating in diverse, multicultural, and inclusive settings with a willingness to change for continual improvement.
• Adheres to all PSU’s policies including the policies on Prohibited Discrimination & Harassment and the Professional Standards of Conduct.

Contributes to a culture of environmental stewardship, practices resource conservation, and actively works toward achieving long-term sustainability goals.

At Portland State University, all employees are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner which maintains a safe, respectful, and productive environment for faculty, students, administrators, and staff. It is the responsibility of every member of the Portland State University community to conduct themselves in accordance with our PSU Professional Standards of Conduct which are available at www.pdx.edu/hr/professional-standards-conduct.