Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching (EXPIRED)

The University Center for Human Values invites nominations and applications for the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching. We aim to make individual appointments for the following:   Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, 2018-19 and 2019-20.

These visiting professorships were established as part of Princeton’s 250th Anniversary teaching initiatives, enabling the University Center to bring to campus excellent undergraduate teachers and scholars whose teaching and research explicitly examine values in public and private life. Candidates in all fields are eligible but special consideration for Spring 2018 applications will be given to scholars who have a demonstrated expertise in teaching related to environmental ethics and political theory and for Spring 2019 and Spring 2020 to scholars who have a demonstrated expertise in teaching related to service and civic engagement, human rights or ethics and public policy. Recent holders of these positions have been appointed at their home institutions in Comparative Literature, History, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology.  Ten-month positions bring a full salary. Five-month positions (half of a ten-month faculty position) bring a commensurate proportion of salary.

Since the successful candidates must demonstrate an established record of teaching excellence, applicants should normally hold a tenured position in their home institution. The professorship is not intended for early-career faculty and we do not generally consider applicants who have taught less than five years.

Candidates who have received teaching awards will be given especially serious consideration, but receipt of such awards is not a necessary condition for selection if there is other evidence of outstanding teaching. We are keen to consider applicants who have been innovative in the classroom through their use of technology, although again this is not a necessary condition for selection. International applicants with a demonstrable record of distinguished teaching are encouraged to apply.

Visiting professors normally teach one undergraduate course, organize at least one event focused on pedagogy, and participate in seminars, colloquia, and other activities of the University Center for Human Values. They also enjoy access to Firestone Library and to a wide range of activities throughout the University.

The appointment committee will consider applicants on the basis of:

• The quality of their teaching and relevance to the purposes of the University Center for Human Values;
• The quality of their previous and proposed research and their ability to benefit from and contribute to the activities of the University Center for Human Values;  
• The contribution they are likely to make to higher education in the future through teaching and writing about ethics and human values.

Nominations

The University Center encourages department chairs, deans, colleagues, and students to nominate candidates for consideration. Nomination letters should describe the nominee’s teaching and scholarly interests and characterize the evidence as to quality of the nominee’s record of teaching and scholarship. The nominee’s c.v. should be included. The selection committee may invite nominees to provide further information if required. It would be helpful to us to receive the nomination by Friday November 18, 2016.  Nomination letters may be sent by email to [email protected]

We anticipate concluding the selection process by June 2017, for the appointments tenable in spring 2018 and the 2018-2019 academic year. 

These positions are subject to the University’s background check policy.

Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.