Collegiate Assistant Professor
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The College at the University of Chicago is now accepting applications for fouryear postdoctoral teaching appointments as Harper and Schmidt Fellows who hold the rank of Collegiate Assistant Professor. Collegiate Assistant Professors are members of the College Faculty whose primary professional responsibility is to teach in the general education (Core) program. courses in the Humanities typically deal with fundamental issues and texts in history philosophy and literature. Currently the Core is organized into eight yearlong sequences: Readings in World Literature; Human Being and Citizen; Greece and Rome: Texts Traditions Transformations; Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities; Media Aesthetics; Reading Cultures; Poetry and the Human; and Language and the Human. We encourage applicants to spend time reviewing the descriptions and syllabi for Core sequences to understand the distinct topics and approaches and gauge best fit. Descriptions of these courses are available here: courses in the Social Sciences explore on the basis of significant works or primary source materials the fundamental concepts and the different modes of inquiry that have defined the social sciences in the modern period. Currently we are inviting applications forCollegiate Assistant Professors to teach in several of the yearlong sequences into which the Core is organized: Self Culture and Society; Classics of Social and Political Thought; Power Identity and Resistance; Democracy: Equality Liberty and the Dilemma of SelfGovernance; and Global Society. We encourage applicants to spend time reviewing the descriptions and syllabi for Core sequences to understand the distinct topics and approaches and gauge best fit. Descriptions of these courses are available here: Collegiate Assistant Professors also teach in the Introduction to the Civilizations Core Sequences. We are currently accepting applications in the Civilizations of East Asia and Introduction to Latin American Civilizations core sequences. These courses are taught on the basis of intensive readings of significant primary source documents. For descriptions and syllabi of the Introduction to the Civilizations of East Asia and Introduction to Latin American Civilization see: positions are open to scholars in all disciplines and areas of specialization who will have completed all requirements for their Ph.D. degree no later than August 31 2025. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in teaching as well as in their original scholarship. While many Core sequences feature set reading lists applicants need not have conventional expertise in the specific texts and topics that are currently taught. Rather we welcome applicants from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds who can apply conceptual and methodological creativity and skill to the teaching of general education courses. Applicants should be prepared 1 to identify and guide students through fundamental questions in a Core sequence and 2 to contribute meaningfully to the instructional community and the curricular evolution for that Core sequence.
In most years Collegiate Assistant Professors teach two courses (usually of identical preparation) for each of three quarters. In the second through fourth year of residence each Collegiate Assistant Professor has the opportunity to design up to two independent courses and each is eligible for one quarter of research sabbatical. In the fourth year there is a possibility of another quarter of sabbatical with salary reduction.
The position comes with a minimum salary of $82571 carries full benefits and an annual professional development fund of $6250. The effective date for these teaching appointments is September 1 2025.
To apply for these positions please see our web site at .
Online application deadline: 11:59:59 PM EDT Tuesday October 15 2024.
Employment Type
Full Time
