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General Summary
Reposting:
The Department of Political Science seeks applications for two Assistant Professor or Associate Professor tenure track positions from individuals with research and teaching interests in all subfields in and approaches to American Politics and Public Policy. This includes the broad area encompassed by Parties and Coalitions, Elections, Interest groups, Public Opinion, and Political Culture, and related methodological skills; and the broad area encompassed by American Political Development, the State, Institutions, and related Public Policy matters. 

Start date is September 2012. Possibility of hire with Tenure for an exceptional Associate Professor candidate. Please submit a letter identifying your interest, a curriculum vita, copies of publications and names and contact information of three references who will be contacted.

The Political Science Department offers a B.A. degree. There is the potential for a 2/2 teaching load for research productive faculty. Political Science faculty also have the opportunity to teach in interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate programs.

Just 25 miles north of Boston, UMass Lowell faculty benefit both from the city of Lowell’s cultural and arts environment as well as from engagement with and participation in the metropolitan Boston academic community. Applications received by 10/1/2011 will receive first consideration but we will review applications until the positions are filled.

We are committed to educating students for lifelong success in a diverse world and seek a diverse talented candidate pool to be part of our mission and achievements. Interested applicants should apply online at https://jobs.uml.edu

Minimum Qualifications
-Ph.D. in Political Science or equivalent (must have Ph.D. by start date of appointment, September 2012)

Position Summary
The Department of Political Science invites applications for the position of visiting assistant professor in U.S. politics and institutions with strengths in Congress, interest groups, and parties; additional specializations in public policy, public opinion, or American political development also are of interest. This position will begin August 10, 2011 (pending final budgetary approval) on a non-tenure track basis at the rank of visiting assistant professor for one year with the possibility of an additional year extension.

Required Qualifications
Earned doctorate in political science at the time of application or degree in hand by August 10, 2011. Candidates must have a clear specialization in one of the central areas of U.S. politics and governance, as well as demonstrated effectiveness in both undergraduate and graduate teaching to meet the department’s key teaching needs in its B.A. and M.A. programs. The teaching requirements for this position will be six courses a year.

Preferred Qualifications
Preference will be given to broadly trained candidates who have grounding and skills in a variety of theoretical, analytical, and methodological approaches to U.S. politics, and who can work with undergraduate and graduate students (at the master’s and doctoral levels) in political science and international studies along with non-majors in core curricular courses. Prior teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level is preferred.

How to Apply for this Job
Interested persons must apply at www.jobs.vt.edu posting #0110229 where they will submit a cover letter, current curriculum vitae, recent writing samples, teaching evaluations, along with the recent letters of support from three to five academic references. Screening of applications will begin April 29, 2011, and continue until the position is filled. All inquiries can be sent to: Professor Karen Hult, American Government and Politics Search Committee, Department of Political Science, 531 Major Williams Hall (0130), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061. Individuals with additional questions or with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should contact the search committee chair.

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Daniel Cullen grew up in Montreal, Canada where he attended McGill University. After receiving his Ph. D. in political science at Boston College, Professor Cullen taught at Acadia University in Nova Scotia and Vanderbilt University in Nashville before joining the faculty of Rhodes College in Memphis.

An award-winning teacher, Cullen teaches a wide range of courses in the history of political philosophy and Rhodes’ core humanities program. He is a past recipient the L. Palmer Brown Chair in the Humanities.

Professor Cullen is the author of Freedom in Rousseau’s Political Philosophy, and essays in modern political theory and liberal education. He is currently completing Nature and Nation: American Democracy in the Mirror of Rousseau and is editing a collection of essays on political philosophy and civic education. He is the Director of the Project for the Study of Liberal Democracy at Rhodes, which promotes the study of American Constitutionalism and its philosophic sources.

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The Department of Political Science at Saint Vincent College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level beginning either Fall 2011 or Spring 2012, contingent on funding and staffing within the Department. The Department is situated within the Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government—one of the four major divisions of Saint Vincent College, the oldest Benedictine institution of higher learning in America. The teacher-scholar we are seeking will have a strong and sympathetic orientation toward the great books of Western civilization, and must be able to teach the Department’s Principles of American Politics course, which is a primary-source survey of the political thought of the American Founding era. Additional teaching and research interests in international politics and/or domestic public policy are required, as is a commitment to approach the study of politics through primary sources. Ability to work cooperatively in a small, dynamic department is essential. Sustained scholarly engagement within the discipline of political science is an expectation for tenure, and the College and Department will be supportive of such an agenda. Teaching load is 4-3, with small classes, and no more than 3 preparations per semester. Course reductions are possible for active scholars. The successful candidate will enjoy the potential for affiliation with the nationally renowned Center for Political and Economic Thought, a research and educational arm of the McKenna School that is home to some of the best and most active political science and economics lecture and conference programs in the nation.

Saint Vincent College is a Catholic, Benedictine liberal arts and sciences college of about 1700 students. It is located about forty miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a pleasant suburban/rural environment near the foothills of the Laurel Mountains. Salary and benefits are competitive. Saint Vincent is an equal opportunity employer. To apply send a cover letter and complete CV to:

Director of Human Resources
Saint Vincent College
300 Fraser Purchase Road
Latrobe, Pennsylvania 15650-2690
www.stvincent.edu

The cover letter should detail the applicant’s teaching and research interests, and the applicant’s perceived fit with the mission of the Center for Political and Economic Thought, whose homepage is www.stvincent.edu/cpet. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in Political Science in hand at the time of appointment. Applicants should list references, but need not send letters of recommendation or teaching materials at this time; candidates who make the short list will be asked for teaching materials and no fewer than 3 letters at a later date.

Assumption College

Assumption College is a comprehensive Catholic college firmly committed to traditional liberal arts education. The Political Science department seeks candidates with a broad training in American national institutions and processes and a firm grounding in American constitutional principles and design. Teaching responsibilities include American Government, the American Presidency, Constitutional Law, as well as our introductory level course which examines enduring questions of political life in light of the American and western civic and intellectual traditions. We also wish to expand and strengthen our Pre-Law Program in view of articulation agreements the College has with several law schools across the country. Applicants who can take responsibility for this initiative are welcome. The successful candidate must also demonstrate a potential for excellence in both teaching and scholarship. Applicants must be willing to contribute actively to the mission of the College as well as show respect for the Catholic and Assumptionist identity of Assumption College.

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The Department currently has five full-time members and plays a central role in fulfilling the College’s mission of cultivating thoughtful citizenship. Candidates must be willing to contribute actively to that mission. Please send a letter of application that includes a statement of teaching and research interests, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to:

Political Science Search Committee
Assumption College
500 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609

Inquiries can be directed to Prof. Daniel J. Mahoney at dmahoney@assumption.edu. We will begin reviewing applications by December 1st, 2010 and will continue doing so until the positioned is filled.

Assumption College, a Catholic liberal arts and professional studies college, was founded in 1904 by its sponsoring religious community, the Augustinians of the Assumption. Assumption College is part of the Colleges of Worcester Consortium and an Affirmative Action employer encouraging candidates who would enrich the College’s diversity.

By Peter Berkowitz

Our universities haven’t taught much political history for decades. No wonder so many progressives have disdain for the principles that animated the Federalist debates.

For the better part of two generations, the best political science departments have concentrated on equipping students with skills for performing empirical research and teaching mathematical models that purport to describe political affairs. Meanwhile, leading history departments have emphasized social history and issues of race, class and gender at the expense of constitutional history, diplomatic history and military history.

Neither professors of political science nor of history have made a priority of instructing students in the founding principles of American constitutional government. Nor have they taught about the contest between the progressive vision and the conservative vision that has characterized American politics since Woodrow Wilson (then a political scientist at

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Princeton) helped launch the progressive movement in the late 19th century by arguing that the Constitution had become obsolete and hindered democratic reform.

Then there are the proliferating classes in practical ethics and moral reasoning. These expose students to hypothetical conundrums involving individuals in surreal circumstances suddenly facing life and death decisions, or present contentious public policy questions and explore the range of respectable progressive opinions for resolving them. Such exercises may sharpen students’ ability to argue. They do little to teach about self-government.

They certainly do not teach about the virtues, or qualities of mind and character, that enable citizens to shoulder their political responsibilities and prosper amidst the opportunities and uncertainties that freedom brings. Nor do they teach the beliefs, practices and associations that foster such virtues and those that endanger them.

Those who doubt that the failings of higher education in America have political consequences need only reflect on the quality of progressive commentary on the tea party movement. Our universities have produced two generations of highly educated people who seem unable to recognize the spirited defense of fundamental American principles, even when it takes place for more than a year and a half right in front of their noses.

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Mr. Berkowitz is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

In Federalist 51, James Madison writes: “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.” Although every American knows that the Constitution created a national government with three independent branches, we do not necessarily know why the framers chose to do this. Why did Madison think that ambition should counteract ambition? What purposes are served by not only separating power but also by creating a system in which the exercise of power is so frequently blocked by another branch?

Join scholar Benjamin Kleinerman for a 3 day program on the structure of the U.S. Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier.

April 8-10, 2011

Benjamin A. Kleinerman, Ph.D., received his BA in Political Science from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University.  A former Visiting Scholar in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University, Dr. Kleinerman has also taught at Oberlin College and the Virginia Military Institute.  His book, The Discretionary President: The
Promise and Peril of Executive Power, has been reviewed in The New Republic and Political Science Quarterly.  He has also written articles on the subject of executive power in the American Constitution appearing in Perspectives on Politics, American Political Science Review, and Nomos.  He is currently working on a new book on the separation of powers and the political structure of the Constitution.