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Political Science

For more information visit: https://politicalscience.umbc.edu/

August 2025

The Department of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(UMBC) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Middle East politics and either or both comparative politics and international relations, beginning in August 2025.  UMBC is a Carnegie Research-1, community-engaged, minority-serving institution focused on inclusive excellence. The annual teaching load is five undergraduate courses, which includes two sections of one course preparation.
  
UMBC is a dynamic and growing public research university located in the Baltimore-
Washington Corridor, an area rich in scholarly resources and opportunities.  We have 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students.  U.S. News and World Report regularly ranks UMBC in the top 10 of most innovative universities, and the Chronicle of Higher Education recognizes the university as one its “Great Colleges to Work For” in areas such as cooperative governance, compensation, teaching environment, and work-life balance.  We are especially proud of the diversity of our student body (https://umbc.edu/about/), and we hope to attract an equally diverse applicant pool for this position.  Our campus community has a strong commitment to equity and
social justice.  For example, our department’s undergraduate Council of Majors is spearheading an initiative to increase diversity and inclusion in the curriculum.  To learn more about the Department of Political Science at UMBC, please visit https://politicalscience.umbc.edu/ and
https://politicalscience.umbc.edu/commitment-to-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/.
 
Preference will be given to candidates who have a Ph.D. in political science or
international politics or will have a Ph.D. in hand by August 2025.  Applicants must provide evidence of a focused, ambitious research agenda and a commitment to excellent undergraduate teaching.  Candidates must also describe how their research, teaching, and/or life experiences contribute to “inclusive excellence,” such as their ability to work with underserved and diverse populations and their capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the competence, aspirations, and needs of students from diverse backgrounds.  The successful candidate can expect to teach undergraduate courses on the Middle East from a comparative politics and/or
international relations perspective, with a preference for candidates able to teach courses in both subdisciplines. 

For best consideration, applicants should submit their applications by September 20,
2024, using https://apply.interfolio.com/150619.  Please provide a cover letter; a CV; a statement of your research agenda; a statement of your teaching philosophy; a statement of your commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; up to two writing samples or publications; two sample course syllabi; and three letters of reference.  Questions should be addressed to either of the search co-chairs, Dr. Carolyn Forestiere (forestie@umbc.edu) and Dr. Brian Grodsky (bgrodsky@umbc.edu), using
the subject line “POLI Search.”

UMBC, an honors university serving more than 14,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, is one of two public universities in Maryland to achieve the “doctoral/research university-extensive” Carnegie classification. Located just outside Baltimore and 45 minutes from Washington, DC, the campus is growing rapidly under dynamic leadership.

Our UMBC community redefines excellence in higher education through an inclusive culture that connects innovative teaching and learning, research across disciplines, and civic engagement. We will advance knowledge, economic prosperity, and social justice by welcoming and inspiring inquisitive minds from all backgrounds. The successful candidate will join a department with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence, and will be expected to contribute actively to these efforts (https://diversity.umbc.edu/).