Part-Time Employment Opportunity: Teaching Assistant in the History of Science and Technology Program (Summer Term)
Deadline for Applications: Monday, April 28, 2025
Established in 1789, King’s College is Canada’s oldest chartered university and is associated with Dalhousie University. A small and extraordinarily lively academic community located in Halifax (Kjipuktuk), Nova Scotia, King’s is known nationally and internationally for its highly acclaimed interdisciplinary programs in the humanities, including its renowned Foundation Year Program, its professional programs in journalism and its fine arts programs in creative writing. King’s is a community where students, faculty, alumni, and staff work to bring greater understanding, creativity, and compassion to the world.
The History of Science and Technology (HSTC) at the University of King’s College invites applications for a Teaching Assistant to handle duties in HSTC 2102, “Origins of Modern Medicine”, offered Summer 2025 with online and asynchronous instruction. HSTC 2102 is an interdisciplinary course that looks at defining moments that led to modern health and medicine, beginning with the ancient world leading up to the development of “modern” institutionalized medicine at the birth of the 20th century. Focus will be on changing ideas about the causes of disease and the possibilities of medicine, but also on the broader conceptions of health, life and death and their social/cultural place.
Candidates may come from various fields but should have at least an undergraduate degree. Familiarity with the history of science and technology will be considered an asset, as will prior TA experience (at the university level) and experience teaching online and asynchronously.
Hourly Rate of Pay: $30.05 (classification of TA90). Position is conditional on the course’s final enrollment numbers
To apply for this position, please forward your C.V. (including a statement concerning your teaching experience) to Sharon Brown at sharon.brown@ukings.ca.
Questions regarding the position should be directed to Catherine Fullarton, who can be reached by email at catherine.fullarton@ukings.ca.
The University of King’s College is committed to diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion. We encourage and welcome applications from Indigenous persons (especially Mi’kmaq), persons with a disability, racialized persons, including persons of Black/African descent (especially African Nova Scotians), women, persons of a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity and all candidates who would contribute to the diversification of our community.