Montana State University

The Montana State University School of Architecture invites applications for the Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar position. This one-semester position is intended to attract and support an emerging scholar or practitioner (or a group of scholars or practitioners) with a range of innovative scholarship or progressive practice in architecture or allied fields. The primary role of the position is to introduce new, pioneering, and interdisciplinary approaches in design research and practice and integrate them into the programs at the School. A broad range of scholarly and professional expertise is welcomed. Candidates are expected to outline how their teaching, research, and creative activity will contribute to or challenge thinking about architecture as the School of Architecture looks to the future.

The Visiting Scholar will teach an advanced graduate design studio, participate in faculty meetings and studio reviews, and actively engage with the school community, students, faculty, and staff, on a day-to-day basis. The Visiting Scholar is required to present the accomplishments in the form of a public lecture at the School and submit the work produced at the School to an external body for peer review and dissemination to national or international audiences.

Qualifications
Candidates must hold a record of impactful scholarship or professional practice and substantial teaching or leadership experience
in architecture or allied fields.

Residency – The Visiting Scholar will have two residency options: a full 15-week semester (housing not provided) or a schedule of five one-week visits distributed evenly across the 15-week semester with regular virtual engagement between the visits (housing provided during the visits).

Resources – The School of Architecture will provide the Visiting Scholar with access to its facilities and equipment, such as the virtual reality lab, fabrication lab, 3D printers, CNC routers, and laser cutters, for teaching, research, and creative activities. Financial support will be available for material costs, publication fees, and other related expenses. The Visiting Scholar will also receive assistants and support for organizing a field trip in Montana for the studio.

Applications are accepted at http://jobs.montana.edu/hr/postings/42674

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