Position ID: | HMC-HSA Faculty Positions-VISITING [#16039] |
Position Title: | Two Visiting Assistant Professor Positions in Economics |
Position Type: | Non tenure-track faculty |
Position Location: | Claremont, California 91711, United States [map] ![]() |
Subject Area: | Economics |
Appl Deadline: | 2020/03/13 11:59PM![]() |
Position Description: |
Two Visiting Assistant Professor Positions: Environmental Economics and Development Economics Harvey Mudd College The Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts (HSA)
at Harvey Mudd College—a highly selective member of the Claremont Colleges,
offering majors in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics—seeks
applications for two positions: a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Development
Economics, and a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental
Economics. These nine-month full-time
positions run from August 15, 2020 to May 15, 2021. The primary qualification is a strong commitment to teaching
undergraduates and demonstrated excellence and innovation in the
classroom. The successful candidates
will teach a total of five semester-long courses – two in the fall and three in
the spring – including at least one introductory microeconomics or
macroeconomics course and four other courses of the candidates' choice in
consultation with the department. Development economics:
Course topics might include global poverty, economic growth, agriculture,
trade policy, rural development, microfinance, international finance, economic institutions,
or political economy. Environmental economics:
Course topics could include the economics of energy, natural resources
and the environment, climate change mitigation, market-based regulatory tools,
land use, REDD+, property rights, inter-generational equity, or other themes. The ideal candidates will have already designed and taught at
least two separate courses as the faculty instructor of record. A Ph.D. in economics must be completed by
June 1, 2020. The HSA Department offers a broad-based liberal arts program with
considerable interaction among faculty representing about fourteen
disciplines. We do not have an economics
department or economics majors, although there are ample opportunities for
interaction with economics faculty and students from the other Claremont
Colleges, which are a short walking distance from the Harvey Mudd campus. We are located in Claremont, California, 35 miles east of Los
Angeles, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains. This position includes health and retirement
benefits and up to $2,000 in relocation costs.
The high caliber of Harvey Mudd students is one of the defining
features of the college. In 2019, the
acceptance rate was 14 percent, and the average SAT scores of admitted students
commonly rank within the top ten among US universities. Harvey Mudd ranks second among the nation's
universities for the highest percentage of graduates subsequently earning
science and engineering doctorates. Harvey
Mudd College is committed to equal opportunity in education and employment and
prohibits discrimination against persons on the basis of race, color, religion,
national origin, ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex (including
pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation,
gender (including gender identity and expression), marital status, age,
physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics,
veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law in
admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services and benefits under
any of its programs and activities or in employment or the application for
employment. Harvey Mudd College also prohibits discrimination based on the
perception that anyone has any of these protected characteristics, or that
anyone is associated with a person who has, or is perceived as having, any of
these protected characteristics. Applications must be received by March 13, 2020. We plan to conduct Skype interviews with a
short list of finalists and to make a decision by April 1. Applicants should submit a cover letter describing the courses they would like to teach, a
curriculum vitae, three reference letters, and three syllabi and course
evaluations (if available) from past courses they have designed and taught.
Questions may be addressed to paul_steinberg@hmc.edu |