Security Studies (Assistant Professor)
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Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The School of Civic Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) invites applications for full-time tenure-track at the Assistant Professor level in Security Studies. The School of Civic Leadership especially seeks diplomatic and military historians political scientists international relations theorists political theorists classicists and others who bring relevant scholarly expertise to the perennial challenges of foreign affairs and its central activities of diplomacy intelligence and war.
In partnership with the Clements Center for National Security the School of Civic Leadership will offer a major in Strategy and Statecraft in August 2027 with plans for graduate degrees forthcoming. The major in Strategy and Statecraft employs diplomatic and military history a classical and modern bookshelf of strategic thinkers modern foreign languages political science and coursework with distinguished practitioners to educate students for careers in the public and private sectors rigorous graduate programs and advanced scholarship. While our program begins with studies in classical humanities policy-relevant social science is welcome and squarely in our wheelhouse too.
Applicants should be able to contribute to teaching some of the core courses in the major including:
- American Diplomatic and Military History
- Classics and Modern Classics of Strategy (i.e. through Brands)
- European Diplomatic and Military History or Non-Western Diplomatic and Military History
- Adversary Net Assessment
- Recent and Contemporary Challenges in Diplomacy Intelligence and Defense
The strongest applicants will also be able to teach advanced coursework that is consistent with these broad themes.
Considering the responsibility public institutions of higher education have to prepare students for leadership in a free society the University of Texas System Board of Regents established the School of Civic Leadership at UT Austin. The School of Civic Leadership is an interdisciplinary school whose dual mission is to equip students with the knowledge and aptitudes necessary to lead in a free society and to produce academic research at the highest levels of scholarly excellence.
We seek outstanding candidates whose work and approach to teaching respect the role and work of foreign affairs in a democracy and complement the School of Civic Leaderships core themes: political economic and individual liberty and its philosophical underpinnings; constitutionalism and the rule of law; and the political economy of a free society. Ideal candidates will (1) have excellent records of scholarship with robust research agendas (2) provide evidence of exceptional teaching and (3) show a readiness to contribute to the intellectual life governance and programmatic development of the School of Civic Leadership.
Key Skills
- Experience Working With Students
- Classroom Experience
- Medical Management
- Library Services
- Pharmacy Residency
- Research Experience
- Teaching
- Higher Education Teaching
- Curriculum Development
- Grant Writing
- Mentoring
- Research Laboratory Experience
About Company
ARL:UT is a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) and has a long history of excellence in the areas of sonar, GPS, and information science. Since 1945 our laboratories have been dedicated to improving national security through applications of acoustics, electromagnetics, and i ... View more
