July Academic Jobs, Opportunities, & Media
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Academic Opportunities
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Political Science, South Dakota State University
The School of American & Global Studies at South Dakota State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Political Science with an anticipated start date of August 2025.?Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.?Click here to learn more and to apply >>
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Government, Regent University
Regent University’s College of Arts and Sciences at Regent University is seeking to fill a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Government position, beginning Fall 2024.?Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.?Click here to learn more and to apply >>
Fall 2024 Hertog Fellowship Seminars for Students, Young Professionals
The Hertog Foundation invites applicants for its Fall 2024 Humanities at Hertog program. The program offers?three online seminars, each centered around an enduring literary work that provides insight to the study of politics.?Admission decisions will be made on a rolling basis.?The early application deadline for Fall seminars is?Monday, July 29, 2024.?The final deadline is?Monday, August 26, 2024.?Click here to learn more and to apply >>
New Reads from the Network
Wilfred McClay in Liberty Fund: "A River Fed from Many Streams"
JMC Board Member Wilfred McClay ( Hillsdale College ) writes in Liberty Fund on Thomas Jefferson and the many influences on the Declaration of Independence:
The Declaration, then, needs to be understood as a great river of oratory that is fed by various streams, a document that held together a variety of perspectives by the forcefulness and skill of its rhetoric, and by the demands of the moment in which it appeared. Its enduring appeal, as it approaches its 250th anniversary, is nothing short of remarkable.
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Ben Storey & Jenna Silber Storey in The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Will Republicans Save the Humanities?"
JMC Academic Advisory Council members Ben Storey (Summer Institute 2006) and Jenna Silber Storey ( American Enterprise Institute ) recently appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education writing on the rise of civics and humanities schools:
We found that faculty working in these new schools are motivated by desires common to many professors. They want to pursue their scholarship in an environment that both supports and challenges them. They want to develop models of teaching that address what they see as the needs of today’s students. And they want to build academic communities that are energetic, where “students can come together to unapologetically experience the joy of learning,” in the words of Jill P. Ingram, who moved from the English department at Ohio University to the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida in 2022.
But they face some unusual challenges. They must develop substantial, distinctive academic programs to justify their significant, controversial administrative footprint. They must hire and perform according to high scholarly standards, while showing legislators, regents, and trustees that they are fulfilling their mandates. And they must win the respect of colleagues in other departments who are skeptical about their programs’ legitimacy...
Frank Garmon Jr.: A Wonderful Career in Crime
This month, Miller Fellow Frank Garmon Jr. (Summer Institute 2015) ( Christopher Newport University ) releases a new book on a fascinating figure of the nineteenth century: Charles Cowlam:
Charles Cowlam’s career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched many of the most prominent figures of the era, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. One contemporary newspaper reported that Cowlam “has as many aliases as there are letters in the alphabet.” He was a chameleon in a world of strangers, and scholars have overlooked him due to his elusive nature. His intrigues reveal how Americans built trust amid the transience and anonymity of the nineteenth century. The stories Cowlam told allowed him to blend in to new surroundings, where he quickly cultivated the connections needed to extract patronage from influential members of American society...