September Academic Jobs & Reads
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Academic Jobs and Opportunities
Executive Director at the Center for Civics, Culture and Society, Miami University
美国迈阿密大学 seeks an Executive Director for the Center for Civics, Culture and Society. Among other things, the Executive Director will be responsible for overseeing the establishment of the Center, the recruitment, appointment, and ongoing supervision of at least 10 tenure-track faculty members and additional staff, and developing and promoting the curriculum, programming, and other activities of the center. Screening of applicants will continue until the position is filled. Click here to learn more and to apply >>
Faculty Positions at the Hamilton Center, University of Florida
Several positions at the level of assistant, associate, and full professor are open at the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the 美国佛罗里达大学 .?Within the bounds of their academic mission, the Center is flexible as to the disciplinary focus of applicants. Screening of applicants will continue until the position is filled.
Assistant/Associate Professor in the School of Civic Life and Leadership, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL) at the 美国北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校 seeks to appoint a tenure track Assistant Professor or a tenured Associate Professor. The search committee has a special interest in applicants with backgrounds in the liberal arts and humanities, social sciences, natural science and its historical roots and epistemology, civics and politics, and rhetoric and dialectic (especially discourse and classical texts). Applications are still being considered and will be accepted until the positions are filled. Click here to learn more and to apply >>
Salmon P. Chase Center Project Manager for Civics, Culture, and Society at The Ohio State University
The Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at 美国俄亥俄州立大学 is conducting a search for the Center’s project manager, a person who will work closely with the Center’s administrative team to build the Center into the flourishing academic community envisioned in ORC § 3335.39. The project manager, as with all members of the Center, should embrace the Center’s mission. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Click here to learn more and to apply >>
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University
The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University invites applications for positions at the assistant, associate, or full professor rank, in any of their four scholarly tracks of political thought, American constitutional or political thought, economic thought, or statecraft with an anticipated start date in August 2025. A Ph.D. in Political Science, Philosophy, History, Economics, or a related field is required. The application deadline is October 24, 2024. Click here to learn more and to apply >>
Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor of History-Social Sciences at Illinois State University
Illinois State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in History-Social Sciences Education to begin August 16, 2025. Specialization is open, but world history, European history, and nineteenth-century US history are preferred. The application deadline is November 1, 2024. Click here to learn more and to apply >>
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New Reads from the Network
RealClear Books & Culture: "Essential Reading on the Constitution"
In honor of Constitution Day on September 17, JMC's Hans Zeiger reviews Yuval Levin's ( American Enterprise Institute ) latest book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation – and Could Again at RealClear Media Group Books & Culture:
In his narrative, the Constitution itself emerges as the greatest tool for restoring what is being lost in the partisan conflict raging around us. The Founders understood the problems posed to a republic by faction, but as Publius argued in Federalist 10, “Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment, without which it instantly expires.” Levin therefore does not see the variety and diversity of American life as a problem so much as one of the chief goods the Constitution aims at preserving...
Law & Liberty: "A Liberal and Civic Education for All"
Miller Fellow Michael Hoffpauir, University of Austin (UATX) (Summer Institute 2012) examines liberal and civic education in higher education while responding to JMC's Senior Fellow for Civic Thought and Leadership Paul Carrese in Law & Liberty:
To begin, we must be clear: liberal education is choice-worthy. It liberates students from ignorance and unreflective opinions by teaching them to think. In a liberal democracy, liberal education’s goal is to form free human beings who are good citizens capable of flourishing in their public and private lives. Students learn to read old and not-so-old books carefully and with an open mind, because such books teach them how to think, speak, and write about the most serious things. Mark Blitz argues liberal education is truly choice-worthy because it alone engages in “most completely examining and exercising what is distinctive to human beings. … To put this in the most accurate traditional sense: liberal education forms man’s distinctive liberality or openness; it expands and shapes the soul. To continue to educate oneself liberally is the central goal of a lifetime.”
Aaron Kushner and Stephen Clouse – A Hero in All of Us?: Heroism and American Political Thought as Seen on TV
Last month, Stephen Clouse and Miller Fellow Aaron Kushner (Summer Institute 2019) published an edited collection of essays examining the connections between American political thought and contemporary television. Several other Miller Fellows contributed, including Adam Seagrave (Summer Institute 2009), Catherine Craig (SI 2023), Jacob Boros (SI 2022), Benjamin Slomski (SI 2021), and Trevor Shelley (PhD) (SI 2021):
Is heroism possible for everyone? Should it be? What kinds of stories do we tell when we talk about heroes and what do these stories reveal about how we view ourselves?
This book takes up these questions and more by reflecting on twenty-first century American television shows. Among the shows examined are Only Murders in the Building, Game of Thrones, The Good Lord Bird, The Boys, and Severance. What we find is an entertainment landscape unsure about what a hero is or even what qualifies as heroic. In a nation uncertain about heroism, we see a dramatic rise in the popularity of the anti-hero and even in worlds without heroes. This fragmented variety highlights how the American political mind is similarly fragmented in what it believes are its highest aspirations—and its deepest anxieties...