Senior Instructional Professor Academic Director - Program for Public Thinking and Discourse
Senior Instructional Professor Academic Director - Program for Public Thinking and Discourse
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The Humanities Collegiate Division and the Program for Public Thinking at the University of Chicago are accepting applications for the position of a Senior Instructional Professor (open rank) and Academic Director. The Academic Director will play an instrumental role in the development and management of the newlyestablished Program for Public Thinking and teach up to four courses per year depending on other duties. This is a fulltime benefitseligible position with a threeyear or fiveyear renewable term depending on rank to start 1 September 2025.
Rooted in the universitys commitment to openended inquiry rigorous argument and intellectual pluralism the Program for Public Thinking is focused on fostering critical thinking about both the philosophy and practice of public intellectual life. The Academic Director will implement the Programs dual mission: on the one hand advancing scholarly inquiry into longrunning debates about what it means to think in public; and on the other modeling and encouraging thoughtful participation in todays public conversation. At the heart of the program will be a curriculum developed by the Academic Director in consultation with the Faculty Director Program Implementation Coordinator and the Faculty Advisory Board. The curriculum will combine rigorous study of intellectual history with an inquiry into the presentday challenges of communicating about ideas in a rapidly evolving public sphere. Integrated into the Colleges distinctive undergraduate curriculum the courses will reflect the conviction that humanistic education and a familiarity with a diversity of intellectual religious and political traditions are centerpieces of addressing the challenges faced by public thinkers today.
Pedagogy is a mainstay of this position and therefore we seek candidates who are able to design and teach impactful courses on the history philosophy and practice of public thinking. The Academic Director will be responsible for planning staffing and coordinating all courses in the Program including the supervision and evaluation of unionized lecturers. In addition the Academic Director is expected to contribute to the Programs cocurricular programming outreach efforts grant writing foundation reporting and fundraising. The course assignments and other duties will be determined annually by the Faculty Director of the Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse. Reporting to the Faculty Director the Academic Director will work with the Implementation Coordinator and other stakeholders to develop all aspects of the Programs academic curriculum including advising and mentoring students developing cocurricular programming and integrating the Program for Public Thinking into the life of the College and the University.
- A bachelors degree in the humanities or social sciences is required.
- A doctoral or a terminal masters degree is preferred.
- Experience teaching at the college level is required.
- Experience editing and / or writing longform reviews criticism or essays for nonacademic publications about art culture politics or intellectual life is required.
- Research or writing about public discourse and issues related to free expression may be helpful but is not required.
- Demonstrable administrative skill entrepreneurial drive and experience managing people is a plus.
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