Two Year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Philosophy (EXPIRED)

Two Year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Philosophy

Rank: Guest Faculty

Tenure Information: Non-Tenure Track

Job Description

Sarah Lawrence College invites applications for a Mellon Fellow starting in August 2022. This two-year, full-time fellowship is funded by a Humanities for All Times grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/news-events/news/2022-01-26-sarah-lawrence-college-awarded-1.5-million-mellon-foundation-grant-nr.html

We are seeking a teacher-scholar with a background in the histories of philosophy and environmental ethics, and a demonstrated interest in the philosophical issues surrounding environmental justice, with a focus on climate. We welcome approaches that integrate comparative and decolonial aspects of climate justice, and a commitment to collaborative pedagogies. Applicants from communities that historically have been underrepresented in the academy are encouraged to apply. This position will be integral to the Sarah Lawrence Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment (SLICE) program that bridges Sarah Lawrence College and Bronx Community College, and to the Philosophy Program at Sarah Lawrence. In 2020, a group of faculty started the Sarah Lawrence Interdisciplinary Collective on the Environment (SLICE) whose mission is in part to help students develop the tools to address climate justice across disciplines. Our Mellon-funded program foregrounds interdisciplinarity, collaboration, permeable classrooms, and community engagement, and seeks to shape decolonized pedagogies that center different ways of knowing in the Humanities. The Mellon Fellow will contribute one course each semester to the SLICE teaching program at Sarah Lawrence, and will be expected to participate in the SLICE program by attending faculty development workshops in the digital humanities, developing shared connections with community partner organizations committed to environmental justice, and collaborating on interdisciplinary programming that will take place each spring semester. The Fellow will publicly present a talk related to their teaching or work each spring, and will be mentored by a member of the SLICE faculty.

We invite interested candidates to submit a cover letter that speaks to their qualifications, philosophy of teaching and commitment to intellectual justice and how they imagine their pedagogy in a collaborative context; a CV; two one-paragraph course descriptions for seminars; a sample syllabus (for a course previously taught or a prospective course); a sample of their work in any format or length; and three letters of recommendation. The postdoctoral fellow's annual salary, which is set by the Mellon Foundation, is $60,000.

Deadline: March 1, 2022

Required Qualifications

A PhD in Philosophy before fall 2022 is required.

Requirements for Employment

Effective October 15, 2021, all employees of Sarah Lawrence College must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Exceptions to this requirement will only be considered for documented medical reasons or sincerely held religious beliefs. Any offers of employment will be contingent on successful completion of a background check and submission of proof of vaccination.

Posting Number: F00107P

Close Date: 3/1/2022

Open Until Filled: Yes

Special Instructions to Applicants

To apply, visit https://apptrkr.com/2822960

Sarah Lawrence College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has as one of its goals the recruitment and retention of a racially and culturally diverse administration, staff and faculty. To that end, every job opening is seen as an opportunity to increase diversity and every effort will be made to expand the applicant pool in accordance with these goals. Sarah Lawrence College is located in southern Westchester County, 25 minutes by train from midtown Manhattan, NYC. For information on Sarah Lawrence College, our curriculum, teaching methods, and philosophy of education, please see our web site at https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/.

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