May Academic Jobs, Opportunities, & Media
The Jack Miller Center
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Academic Opportunities
Apply Now for JMC's 2024 Teaching Excellence Award: Recognizing exceptional teaching of America's founding principles and history
The Jack Miller Center is now accepting applications for our fourth annual Teaching Excellence Award. The award recognizes exceptional teaching in civic education at the college level. We will be selecting two scholars for recognition, one Junior Scholar and one Senior Scholar. The junior scholar award is open to any scholar who has not yet received tenure. The senior scholar award is open to a scholar, of any age or seniority, who has been tenured.
One applicant from each category will receive a $2,000 award.
We believe that your work as an educator creates engaged and thoughtful citizens. Through your wisdom, passion, and stewardship, the students of our nation will continue to grow as civic-minded thinkers. Civic learning depends on cultivating young minds through stories of hope, inspiration, and success. This is an opportunity to tell us how you engage students in the story of America through primary documents, new courses, and/or extracurricular activities.
The award is open to scholars in the fields of political science, history, philosophy, or other related humanistic disciplines related to civic education, including literature. We wish to recognize your efforts in and out of the classroom to inspire and educate your students in their roles as citizens of our republic.
Applicants may apply on their own behalf or nominate others.
Notice: The winner of the Teaching Excellence Award will be featured in JMC communications.
The submission deadline is Sunday, June 16 at 11:59 PM. The winner will be notified by September 1.
Become a Member of the McConnell Center's APSA Group
Every year, the McConnell Center Related Group sponsors a panel at the APSA annual meeting featuring papers from the history of political thought and with particular emphasis on the topics of statesmanship and civic education. Membership in this group is free for APSA members and entails no obligations, but members have the opportunity to present on a regular basis. You must have an active APSA membership to join the group.
Founded in 1991, the non-partisan McConnell Center at the University of?Louisville seeks to identify, recruit and nurture Kentucky's next?generation of great?leaders. Click here to learn more and join the group >>
Contract Faculty in the Honors College, University of Tulsa
The Honors College at The University of Tulsa invites applications for a potentially renewable contracted faculty role.?This faculty role requires a PhD in philosophy, literature, languages, history, classics, theology, political theory, art history, or other humanities discipline. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Click here to learn more and to apply >>
New Media from the Network
Lucas Morel in Public Discourse: "Exploring Our Ancient Faith"
JMC faculty partner Lucas Morel ( Washington and Lee University ) appears in Public Discourse reviewing Allen Guelzo's ( 美国普林斯顿大学 ) latest book, Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment:
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The book explores what Lincoln thought about various aspects of democracy in America during the antebellum and Civil War periods, with Guelzo providing adept historical and philosophical context along the way. The topics range from the obvious, like liberty, law, civil liberties, race, and emancipation, to the not-so-obvious, such as the political economy and cultural habits that Lincoln believed sustained—or were facilitated by—a democratic way of life.
Guelzo also examines specific challenges the American regime faced during Lincoln’s political ascendancy. How Lincoln understood these challenges, and the remedies he offered, serve as a defense of “the American experiment” not only in Lincoln’s day but also today, as Americans experience something of an identity crisis...
Lorraine Pangle in The Texas Tribune: "The UT-Austin Protest: The State of Free Speech on College Campuses"
JMC faculty partner Lorraine Pangle recently sat down with?Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, of The Texas Tribune , for a discussion of the protests on college campuses:
While the intervention by law enforcement at campus demonstrations across the country — including protests at the University of Texas at Austin — has drawn intense scrutiny, it has also raised questions about free speech on college campuses. This week, The Texas Tribune spoke with Edgar Saldivar, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and Lorraine Pangle, a professor of government and co-director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the UT- Austin, to help provide context around the laws governing free speech, how free speech has been protected and challenged in campus protests, and what we should all learn from the last few weeks...
Wilfred M. McClay American Enterprise Institute Report: "Restoring Civics in Higher Education"
JMC board member Wilfred McClay ( Hillsdale College ) recently published an American Enterprise Institute report on restoring civic knowledge in our colleges and universities and our nation's place as a free and self-governing people:
Few could deny that the US has a big problem when it comes to its citizens’ civic knowledge. This is no longer just a question for educators or a matter of ever-declining test scores. In today’s world, failures that begin in the schoolhouse do not stay there but spread to society at large. The stakes go to the heart of what we are. Our failures raise the question of whether we are still capable of sustaining a republican form of government... ?
Brian Matthew Jordan in National Review: "How Lincoln's Assassination Changed American History"
Miller Fellow Brian Matthew Jordan appeared in National Review last month, writing on the 159th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination:
Lincoln’s death elevated a bigoted Democrat from east Tennessee, Andrew Johnson, to the presidency — and thereby changed the course of Reconstruction. Booth’s bullet pitched a nation still reeling from four years of fratricidal war — a conflict that had snuffed out the lives of nearly 3 percent of the U.S. population — into a moment of profound precarity.
Pundits are wont to deem our own present moment — wracked by dread, fear, and division at home and abroad — as somehow unprecedented. Historians, however, know that because everything has a history, nothing is truly new...