Oxford College of Emory University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position in Political Science to begin August 2025. The College seeks a candidate with a background in American Politics, whose teaching and scholarship interests include one or more of the following: voting and elections, legislatures and legislative processes, urban and local politics, or public policy.

The teaching load is three undergraduate courses per semester. Candidates should be prepared to regularly teach an introductory course in American Politics, an introductory Political Science course, a course in Political Science Research Design and Methods, and courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. Faculty members at Oxford College also teach one first-year Discovery Seminar on a topic of their choosing within their expertise every other fall.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching excellence, an ability to maintain a productive research agenda, an interest in active engagement in service (broadly defined), and demonstrate a strong appreciation for Oxford College’s first-year and second-year student-focused mission. The Oxford College curriculum includes opportunities for experiential, community-based, and global learning courses. For more information, please read about our signature academic programs here: https://oxford.emory.edu/academics/index.html .

Who we are:

Located 36 miles east of Atlanta on Emory’s original campus in Oxford, Georgia, and as one of Emory University’s four schools partnering in undergraduate education, Oxford College provides 975 first- and second-year students of high academic profile an intensive liberal-arts program for the first two years of their Emory bachelor’s degree. We are interested in candidates with a commitment to working with a remarkably diverse student body in an inclusive learning community that values excellence in teaching and close student-faculty interaction. Applications from historically excluded populations are particularly welcome. For more information about Oxford College and for a full list of open positions, visit http://oxford.emory.edu/hiring .

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