The School of Civic Leadership (SCL) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) invites applications for full-time professional track positions at the lecturer level with expertise in the area of American Institutions, Citizenship and Foreign Policy.
Considering the responsibility public institutions of higher education have to prepare students for leadership in a free society, the University of Texas System Board of Regents established the School of Civic Leadership at UT Austin in 2023. School of Civic Leadership is an interdisciplinary school whose dual mission is to equip students with the knowledge and aptitudes necessary to lead in a free society, and to produce academic research at the highest levels of scholarly excellence.
The school offers a minor in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts and will launch a new Civics Honors major and Civics minor in the 2025-26 academic year.
Qualifications
We seek outstanding candidates in the areas of political science and political theory whose work speaks to the School of Civic Leadership core themes: political, economic, and individual liberty and its philosophical underpinnings; constitutionalism and the rule of law; and the political economy of a free society. Ideal candidates will (1) have excellent records of scholarship with robust research agendas, (2) provide evidence of exceptional teaching, and (3) show a readiness to contribute to the intellectual life, governance, and programmatic development of the school.
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