Job Description

Job Title

Executive Director, Center for Historic Preservation, Tenure-Track Faculty

Department

Center for Historic Preservation

University Expectation

MTSU seeks candidates committed to innovative teaching, robust research/creative activity, and meaningful service. We also seek to attract culturally and academically diverse faculty who value working with diverse students.

Salary

The salary is commensurate with education and experience.

Job Summary/Basic Function

The Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University invites applicants for a full-time, 12-month, tenure-track faculty position (#004050) as the Executive Director at the rank of associate professor or full professor. Reporting to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the Executive Director supervises a center of nine (9) faculty and staff members. The start date for the position is August 1, 2026.

MTSU seeks candidates committed to innovative, entrepreneurial leadership of its nationally recognized research and public service center in historic preservation, a Center of Excellence at MTSU since 1984. The successful candidate will have a recognized national reputation in historic preservation or public history, a record of scholarly achievement and professional accomplishment commensurate with tenure in MTSU's History Department, an excellent record of mentoring and teaching students, and demonstrated abilities to attract meaningful funding from external sources or donors.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading a research/public service center that builds and maintains reciprocal partnerships with property owners, communities, government agencies, and non-profits to achieve historic preservation and public history projects, programs, publications, or exhibits. Recruiting students for graduate study in historic preservation and public history.
• Identifying, obtaining, and administering external funding from governmental, non-profit, local sources, or donors.
• Partnering statewide with communities and institutions in Tennessee and its immediate region.
• Teaching two required graduate public history seminars per year.
• Mentoring and directing theses and dissertations for public history graduate students.
• Actively researching and delivering professional presentations.
  
  

Required Education

A terminal degree in historic preservation, public history, or U.S. history is required by the appointment date.

Documents Needed to Apply

To successfully apply, applicants must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, and statement of research or creative activities (as appropriate to the discipline) as separate attachments at the time of online application.

Special Instruction to Applicants

For more information about serving as a faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University, please visit our faculty recruitment webpage.

If you need help applying, please contact Mitzi Dunkley, Faculty Recruitment Specialist, at (615) 898-5128. If you have position-specific questions, please contact Karla Barnes at Karla.Barnes@mtsu.edu.

MTSU offers a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to the following:

• Sick Leave
• Vacation Leave for Administrative/Classified Staff/12-month Faculty
• 13 paid University holidays
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Retirement plans
• Optional 401K and 403B Deferred Compensation Plans
• Educational benefits for the employee and their spouse and dependents
  
  

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MTSU is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer that values diversity in all its forms. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

Proof of U.S. citizenship or eligibility for U.S. employment is required before employment (Immigration Control Act of 1986). Clery Act crime statistics for MTSU are available at or by contacting MTSU Public Safety at (615) 898-2424.

MTSU is a Tobacco & Drug-Free campus.

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you will be required to provide information about your criminal history to be considered.

For individuals requiring reasonable accommodation to apply: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation to apply for a position with MTSU, please call 615-898-2929 or email emp@mtsu.edu.

Application Review Date: 11/03/2025

Job Tags

Full time, Immediate start, Local area,

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