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Vacancy ID: PDS004670

Position Summary/Description:

The Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting for a Postdoctoral Fellow. This position is designed to support a talented PPE scholar. Specific duties will include serving as primary researcher and repository manager for the PPE Research Consortium, a project which has been awarded $3.2m grant to offer PPE research grants and to build an accessible infrastructure supporting PPE research and teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute, through their own research activity, to the thriving PPE research community here at UNC and to teach one PPE course each academic year. The appointment will be for an initial year with the possibility of annual renewal for up to an additional two years, contingent upon satisfactory performance review, available funding, and approval by the Program Director. The position is open to candidates who have recently earned their Ph.D. in philosophy, political science, or economics, or another PPE -related field of study. We are particularly interested in candidates with research focused on PPE who have teaching experience. Experience and comfort working with databases and interest in helping to design and build a repository of PPE related material, is especially desirable. A successful candidate must demonstrate an outstanding capacity to work well with others in teams. They will be joining an active, vigorous, and welcoming intellectual community. The successful candidate will be actively involved in the PPE Program, helping to organize and run aspects of its active extracurricular programming. They should also be able and willing to teach courses that count toward the PPE minor, including the ‘Gateway’ course that introduces students to the tools of PPE . Further information about the PPE Program and its courses is available at ppe.unc.edu.

Education and Experience:

An active interest in and engagement with research on social and political institutions that does, or will, benefit from bringing together the tools of the three namesake fields of PPE .