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The Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research (GSSWSR) at Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year, full-time, Visiting Instructor or Visiting Assistant Professor position beginning August 1, 2025.

This position is intended to augment the full-time tenure-track faculty in at least three of the following required curricular areas including: Social Policy; Foundation Practice; Theoretical Perspectives in Social Work; Research Informed Practice I; and Power, Privilege and Oppression. The ideal candidate will bring social-work teaching and professional practice experience to the classroom. A Master of Social Work degree (MSW) and at least two (2) years of post-MSW professional experience are required.

The Visiting Instructor or Visiting Assistant Professor will teach three (3) courses in each semester of the 2025-26 academic year. It is expected that the candidate will be engaged in a full array of faculty roles and responsibilities consistent with employment as a visiting faculty member at Bryn Mawr College, including academic advising of a cohort of master’s students. In addition, they will participate in the ongoing work of the full-time faculty including teaching groups associated with the courses being taught. They will also attend faculty meetings and assist in the work of the GSSWSR faculty, such as committees and work groups, as requested by the Dean.

To apply, submit a complete application that includes a cover letter, curriculum vitae/resume, a statement of teaching philosophy, a sample syllabus, and course evaluations. Also, arrange for two (2) letters of recommendation to be sent to the GSSWSR Search Committee via Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/167524. Review of applications will begin June 1, 2025 and will continue until the position is filled.

Bryn Mawr College is a distinguished liberal arts women’s college with a vibrant faculty, a talented staff, and an intellectually engaged student body eager to make a difference in the world. We have a student body of about 1,400 undergraduates and more than 300 graduate students in coeducational graduate programs in social work, humanities and science. Bryn Mawr College is in the greater Philadelphia area and enjoys strong consortial relationships with Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. Bryn Mawr College is an equal-opportunity employer.

About Bryn Mawr College

The mission of Bryn Mawr College is to provide a rigorous education and to encourage the pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work. Bryn Mawr teaches and values critical, creative and independent habits of thought and expression in an undergraduate liberal arts curriculum for women and in coeducational graduate programs in arts and sciences and social work and social research. Bryn Mawr seeks to sustain a community diverse in nature and democratic in practice, for we believe that only through considering many perspectives do we gain a deeper understanding of each other and the world.

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