Two Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Neuroscience

About the Role

The Department of Neuroscience at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for two full-time tenure-track positions to begin in August 2027. One position will be at the assistant professor level; the other may be at the assistant professor or associate professor level (without tenure). We welcome research in any area of neuroscience and value programs that may cross traditional disciplinary boundaries and span multiple levels of analysis.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the goals of the neuroscience curriculum through collaborative teaching of the introductory course and expansion of core offerings in keeping with integrative STEM education
• Help advance current departmental priorities to incorporate critical/decolonial perspectives and neuroinformatics/computing approaches throughout the curriculum
• Teach introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses across the neuroscience curriculum
• Establish and maintain an active program of scholarly research in their discipline or across disciplines
• Direct students in and out of the classroom
• Carry a 3-2 teaching load
• New faculty receive a one-course reduction in their first year of teaching (i.e., 2-2)

Research Space and Facilities

One faculty position will be provided with life science research laboratory space that can accommodate vertebrate or invertebrate species (with the known exceptions of rats and non-human primates). The other faculty position, suitable for a candidate with a major theoretical, computational, or field-based research focus, will be provided with dry laboratory space and have access to shared life science research laboratory space for work with compatible species and methods. Both positions will have access to shared wet laboratory space within the Neuroscience Department suitable for molecular biology, biochemistry, and histology, which may be modified or upgraded according to their specific research needs.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in neuroscience or a related field required by the beginning of the appointment
• Demonstrated excellence in scholarship and undergraduate teaching
• Commitment to inclusive pedagogies

Salary

• Assistant professor with no prior tenure-track experience or one year of prior tenure-track experience: $102,500
• Assistant professor with two or more years of prior tenure-track experience: $106,500-$109,500
• Untenured associate professor: $112,000-$114,500
• Salary within the applicable range will be based on qualifications and experience

Benefits and Leave

• Full benefits
• Generous sabbatical and fellowship leaves for tenured faculty
• Start-up funding to support research and professional development
• Faculty who enter as an assistant professor and claim less than three years of credit toward their tenure clock receive a research leave prior to tenure review of either a full year at 80% salary or a semester at full salary
• This leave is not available to faculty who enter as an untenured associate professor or who enter as an assistant professor and claim three years of credit toward their tenure clock

Application Instructions

Please submit all materials to https://apply.interfolio.com/189704. Applications are due by Monday, September 14th, 2026 (11:59 pm). Initial interviews via Zoom will take place at the end of September and beginning of October, and campus visits for finalists will take place between October 19th and November 13th.

Required application materials:

• A cover letter addressing the position requirements as well as the ways you might contribute to and further the College's mission as a Jesuit, undergraduate liberal arts college and its core commitment to creating a community where every individual feels empowered to contribute their talents and perspectives
• A curriculum vitae
• Unofficial undergraduate and graduate transcripts
• A statement of your teaching philosophy and interests, with particular emphasis on how you utilize evidence-based teaching strategies to foster inclusive, high-belonging classroom environments
• A statement describing your research, including how you would meaningfully engage undergraduate students in the research process and a brief statement identifying your research space and infrastructure needs (e.g., vertebrate laboratory space, invertebrate laboratory space, dry laboratory space, access to shared life science research laboratory space, etc.)

Three confidential letters of recommendation will be solicited from applicants selected for Zoom interviews in late September. Questions about this search may be directed to the chair of the search committee, Ryan Mruczek, at rmruczek@holycross.edu.