UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO – CHICAGO, IL
SOCIETY OF FELLOWS
General education teaching fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Position Title: Collegiate Assistant Professor.
The University of Chicago Society of Fellows is now accepting applications for four-year postdoctoral teaching appointments as Harper and Schmidt Fellows who hold the rank of Collegiate Assistant Professor. The Fellows are members of the College Faculty whose primary responsibility is to teach in the general education (Core) program.
Core courses in the Humanities typically deal with fundamental issues and texts in history, philosophy, and literature. Currently, the Core is organized into seven year-long sequences: Readings in World Literature; Human Being and Citizen; Greek Thought and Literature; Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities; Media Aesthetics; Reading Cultures; and Language and the Human. For a description of these sequences see: https://fellows.uchicago.edu/humanities.shtml
Core courses in the Social Sciences explore, on the basis of significant works, the fundamental concepts and the different modes of inquiry that have defined the social sciences in the modern period. Currently, Fellows teach in four of the year-long sequences into which the Core is organized: Self, Culture and Society; Classics of Social and Political Thought; and Power, Identity, and Resistance; and Social Science Inquiry. For a description of these sequences see: https://fellows.uchicago.edu/social_sciences.shtml
Some Fellows also teach in the History of European Civilization Core sequence. European Civilization is taught on the basis of intensive readings of significant primary source documents. For a description of the sequence see: https://fellows.uchicago.edu/history.shtml
The 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, 2011. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in their original scholarship as well as in teaching.
In most years, Fellows teach two courses (usually of identical preparation) for each of three quarters. Each Fellow also has the opportunity to design an independent course and each is eligible for one quarter of research sabbatical in the third year of residence. The annual salary for 2011-12 will be $56,500. The effective date for these teaching appointments is September 1, 2011.
To apply for these positions, please see our web site at http://fellows.uchicago.edu. Online applications must be completed by Monday, November 1, 2010. Letters of recommendation must be submitted on-line or received in a dossier by Wednesday, November 10, 2010. The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.