Assistant Professor & Director of Civic Thought & Leadership

Location: Commerce, Texas, United States

Proposed minimum salary: $4,583.33 monthly

Company

East Texas A&M University is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of History and Liberal Studies to lead a new Civic Thought and Leadership degree program.

What you will do

• Lead the development, launch, coordination, assessment, and student recruitment efforts for the Civic Thought and Leadership degree program.
• Develop and teach foundational undergraduate courses in civic thought, humanities, American political thought, constitutionalism, leadership, and interdisciplinary humanities.
• Lead public lectures, reading groups, student forums, and other co-curricular civic learning and dialogue initiatives.
• Build partnerships with university programs, schools, community organizations, and scholarly or civic institutions.
• Identify funding opportunities, prepare grant proposals, and coordinate funded activities.
• Advise and mentor students while contributing to departmental, college, and university service.

Requirements

• Earned doctorate in political science, history, philosophy, or a closely related field by the appointment start date.
• Research agenda in civic thought, political theory or philosophy, American political thought, constitutionalism, leadership, or a related area.
• Evidence of effective undergraduate teaching relevant to civic thought or interdisciplinary humanities.
• Ability to teach foundational texts and facilitate substantive discussion of competing ideas and interpretations.
• Evidence of collaboration and contributions to curriculum development, academic programming, or student engagement.
• Strong written communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Active scholarly agenda and contributions appropriate to a tenure-track assistant professor.
• Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation and credential verification.

Nice to have

• Experience developing or administering civic thought, constitutional studies, liberal arts, or related academic programs.
• Experience teaching courses based on foundational texts connecting political, philosophical, historical, and literary questions.
• Expertise in the history of political ideas, democratic leadership, public communication and persuasion, citizenship, or American constitutional traditions.
• Experience organizing student programming, public lectures, reading groups, conferences, or other co-curricular activities.
• Success securing external grants or contributing to funded educational or public humanities initiatives.
• Experience developing educational programming for teachers or building partnerships beyond the university.
• Peer-reviewed scholarship or strong potential for continued research and publication.

Culture & Benefits

• Tenure-track faculty appointment with responsibilities in teaching, scholarship, and service.
• Work includes collaboration across disciplines and engagement with campus and community partners.
• Official transcripts are required upon acceptance of a verbal offer; international transcripts must be translated and evaluated by an approved credential evaluator.
• Texas A&M University will not pay the $100,000 fee associated with certain new H-1B petitions, and a Texas moratorium may affect the ability to employ candidates requiring future sponsorship.

Hiring process

• Submit a cover letter addressing qualifications and the approach to developing a civic thought and leadership program, a CV, teaching philosophy statement, research statement, and contact information for three professional references.
• Submit all materials electronically through the Texas A&M Online Employment Services website; incomplete or improperly submitted applications may be excluded.
• Unofficial transcripts are accepted with the application; unsolicited recommendation letters will not be considered.