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[ecrea] Director, ASPECT:Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical & Cultural Thought

Tue Jul 06 18:51:34 GMT 2010


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>Director, ASPECT:Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical & Cultural 
>Thought at Virginia Tech
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>The successful candidate is expected to have a substantial record of 
>established research production and academic visibility as well as 
>the professional networks needed to guide future faculty hiring, 
>graduate student recruitment, and the placement of the program's 
>Ph.D. graduates. The position involves a considerable amount of 
>administrative activity tied to directing the program, developing 
>curricula, supporting new faculty recruitment, supervising up to 24 
>funded doctoral students, program budgeting, and working with 
>program stakeholders in the five core departments as well as the 
>College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the College of 
>Architecture and Urban Studies, and the Virginia Tech Graduate 
>School. The position offers a competitive salary and reduction in 
>the typical Virginia Tech teaching load of two courses each semester.
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>Required Qualifications:        Earned doctorate at the time of 
>application in history, philosophy, political science, humanities, 
>or another interdisciplinary area of scholarship grounded in 
>analytical, applied, comparative, critical, or normative theoretical 
>perspectives of scholarly inquiry. Candidates must have a clearly 
>defined specialization in one of the central areas of social, 
>political, ethical or cultural thought associated with this Ph.D. 
>program. They also must have a widely recognized reputation for 
>excellence and demonstrated strength in teaching/learning, 
>discovery, and engagement. ASPECT is an innovative problem-based, 
>theoretically-engaged doctoral program (http://www.aspect.vt.edu/). 
>Evidence of successful prior administrative leadership and the 
>ability to foster academic community are essential expectations for 
>this position.
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>Preferred Qualifications:       Preference will be given to 
>candidates whose established research program and current teaching 
>specialization are tied to interdisciplinary scholarship in social, 
>political, ethical, and cultural thought, and who have extensive 
>prior administrative experience. Candidates also should have a 
>record that would merit a tenured appointment in one of the four 
>core departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 
>namely, History, Philosophy, Political Science or Religion & Culture.
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>Interested persons must apply at http://jobs.vt.edu, posting 
>#0100222 where they will submit a cover letter, current curriculum 
>vitae, recent writing samples, teaching evaluations, and a brief 
>statement on administrative experience and philosophy along with the 
>contact information of five references. The search committee will 
>solicit letters of recommendation as it draws up its list of 
>candidates for interviews. Screening of applications will begin 
>September 20, 2010, and continue until the position is filled. All 
>inquiries can be sent to: Timothy W. Luke, ASPECT Director Search 
>Committee, Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural 
>Thought, 202 Major Williams Hall (0192), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
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>Individuals with additional questions or with disabilities desiring 
>accommodations in the application process should contact the search 
>committee chair, Timothy W. Luke, (twluke /at/ vt.edu), phone: 540.231.0694 
>or 540.231.6633.
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>Jeremy Hunsinger
>Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
>Virginia Tech
>Information Ethics Fellow
>Center for Information Policy Research
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>http://www.stswiki.org/  sts wiki
>http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/  Transdisciplinary 
>Studies:the book series
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