Visiting Assistant Professor in Ethics across the Curriculum

Smith College invites applications for a 2-year, benefits-eligible position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2025. This position is focused on promoting ethics across the curriculum at the college. The position’s core responsibility is teaching, alongside engagement with faculty across a broad range of disciplines. The teaching load is four courses per year, with an additional expectation to create programming, such as lectures, workshops, or symposia, in conjunction with the Conway Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The successful candidate should have the ability to foster and sustain collaborations and partnerships across Smith College’s academic system, including relevant academic departments and centers. 

Although this position will be based in the Department of Philosophy, we invite applications from a broad range of disciplines, spanning the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, as long as the candidate has formal training in ethics. Pertinent areas of expertise that would be suitable for this position are manifold. They include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and machine ethics; the ethical conduct of scientific research; and the gathering and use of data in commercial, medical, financial, and social contexts. All eligible individuals are encouraged to apply, and all applications will be given careful consideration.

Located in Northampton, MA, Smith College is the largest women’s college in the country and is dedicated to excellence in teaching and research across the liberal arts. A faculty of outstanding scholars interact with students in small classes, as advisors, and through student-faculty research projects. Smith College offers opportunities to foster faculty success at every career stage, such as those listed here. The College is a member of the Five College Consortium with Amherst, Hampshire and Mt. Holyoke Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Students cross-enroll and faculty cross-teach across the Five Colleges.

As set forth in our mission and values, Smith College is committed to promoting a culture of equity and inclusion among students, staff, faculty, and administration and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, genetic information, age, veteran status, or physical or mental disability.