The Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) is seeking a new Faculty Director, with a start date of January 1, 2025 for a renewable five-year term. We invite nominations of tenured Berkeley faculty. The candidate should have a well-established research and professional reputation in a relevant discipline as well as demonstrated leadership and administrative abilities.
About ARF
The Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) encourages, facilitates, and expedites field and laboratory research conducted by UC Berkeley archaeologists and related specialists engaged with the material expression of the past cultures.
As a hub for archaeology at UC Berkeley, the unit works to develop resources (including laboratory facilities and workshops) that benefit numerous scholars and their students and make these resources available to practitioners across campus. ARF facilitates scholarship and discovery with annual grants from two endowments for archaeological research, as well as the administration of external grant funds. It works to broaden access to archaeology by sponsoring events, including public lectures, school visits, collaborations with local museums, and participation in events such as Cal Day. ARF promotes archaeological science by providing laboratory space, state-of-the-art field and laboratory equipment, stores for soil, ecofact and artifact analysis, and training for the use of such facilities and equipment. The research unit also highlights the importance of documenting and preserving research through its robust, open access publication series.
ARF recognizes that archaeology is inherently interdisciplinary; it is practiced by scholars holding faculty and/or research positions in departments ranging from Classics to Earth & Planetary Science and there are intimate, archaeology research collaborations among natural scientists, social scientists and/or humanities scholars. Currently, ARF participants include around forty UC Berkeley faculty members from eleven departments and Organized Research Units.
Desirable Candidate Qualifications
Nominee must be a tenured Berkeley faculty member (associate or full professor) and should demonstrate a record fulfilling some or all of the following criteria:
- Leadership and Administrative Abilities to Provide Outward Looking Vision
- Program Development
- Fundraising and Grant Writing Abilities
- Distinguished Record of Scholarship in Archaeology
- Community Outreach and Engagement
- Commitment to UC Berkeley's Principles of Community | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, & Justice
Nomination Process
Nominations were due Friday, September 27. Self-nominations were welcome. Upon receipt of nominations, the appointed search advisory committee will request that interested nominees submit a two- to three-page CV and two-page letter of interest by Monday, October 14.