Assistant Professor

Job Description

The Department of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma invites applications from a diverse group of qualified applicants for a tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 2025.

Philosophy Professors teach core curriculum courses required of all students (Introduction to Philosophy; Logic and Critical Thinking; Contemporary Moral Problems; or Social and Political Philosophy), as well as upper year undergraduate classes in their areas of expertise. The regular teaching load for tenure-track faculty is 4/4 per academic year, which typically includes at least two core curriculum courses and at least one upper-division course per semester. Upper-division courses are offered in a four-semester rotation.

The successful applicant will be expected to teach upper-division courses that fill our department’s curricular needs in Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, or Early Modern Philosophy. Strong preference will be given to candidates with competence  in at least two of these areas.

The position includes usual research and service activity. This is a 9-month per year, tenure-earning position with the possibility of optional summer teaching.

A Ph.D. in Philosophy is required. Experience in teaching philosophy and documented evidence of teaching effectiveness is highly valued.

Department Description

The College of Liberal Arts currently has 113 full-time and 152 part-time faculty in 8 academic departments. The College serves the University's Core Curriculum programs and enrolls more than 2,850 undergraduate students and more than 300 graduate students in 34 undergraduate and 17 graduate majors. For further information see our website at: http://www.uco.edu/la

The Department of Humanities & Philosophy is a joint department with both Humanities and Philosophy concentrations. We offer majors in Humanities, in Philosophy, and in Applied Liberal Arts, and an MA program in Liberal Studies. We offer minors in Classical Studies: Greek, Classical Studies: Latin, Humanities, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, and we contribute to several interdisciplinary minors such as Asian Studies, Film Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. For more information about the department, see https://www.uco.edu/cla/academics/humanities-philosophy/.