Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics (EXPIRED)

The Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a Distinguished Chair in Health Care Ethics, beginning Fall 2017.  Rank: Associate Professor or Professor.  We seek a person with significant national and/or international stature in health care ethics, including related areas in bioethics, who will serve as a catalyst for research and grant activity and who will serve as an excellent representative of the department and an engaged scholar in the Charlotte, NC, area.  The person who fills this position will collaborate in various ways with the growing health care community in Charlotte.  S/he/they will complement the work done by existing UNC Charlotte units such as the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics and the School of Nursing. S/he/they also will participate in the college’s planned interdisciplinary minor in the Medical Humanities.

Our department embodies an intertraditional approach to philosophy; we engage in work within and between philosophical traditions, aiming to build a philosophical culture where sub-disciplinary boundaries are less important than the resources they creating dynamic relationships between theory and experience in which each informs and transform each other. The Philosophy Department offers a major and minor, a Graduate Certificate in Applied Ethics, and an M.A. in Ethics and Applied Philosophy.  Our department has connections to other units across the university, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and we are closely affiliated with UNC Charlotte's Center for Professional and Applied Ethics (http://ethics.uncc.edu/).  For more information on the Department, including its vision for intertraditionality, see our website: http://philosophy.uncc.edu.

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (http://www.uncc.edu/) is a doctoral, research-intensive university, located in one of the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas on an expanding modern campus. One of sixteen campuses in one of the oldest public university systems in the United States, UNC Charlotte offers over 27,000 culturally diverse students a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Charlotte's metropolitan area is rich in cultural and racial diversity (over 40% Hispanic/Latino and African-American) and our faculty strives to reflect and interact positively with that population. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences houses 20 departments in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, physical sciences, and military sciences, as well as 8 research centers and institutes and 13 interdisciplinary programs.                                                                                                 

Required: 1) a doctoral degree in philosophy or a related field that overlaps significantly with the discipline of philosophy; 2) an exceptional scholarly record commensurate with a tenured appointment in a philosophy department at the level of Associate Professor or Professor; 3) a demonstrated interest in serving as an “ambassador” of the department who actively connects philosophy with concrete communities, issues, and practices; 4) evidence of successful teaching; and 5) a demonstrated commitment to promote diversity as a value in the department, college and university.  Finalists will be asked during their screening interview to discuss how the topics and/or practices of diversity and inclusion are incorporated into their teaching and research.

A record of significant, externally funded grant activity is preferred, but not required. Preference also will be given to candidates whose work fits with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ emphases on globalization, sustainability, diversity, and/or digital scholarship.