Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching

This visiting professorship was established as part of Princeton’s 250th Anniversary teaching initiatives, enabling the University Center each year to bring to campus one excellent undergraduate teacher and scholar whose teaching and research explicitly examine values questions in ethics, political theory, or any other discipline. Candidates in all fields are eligible; recent holders of the chair have been appointed in classics, history, politics, philosophy, and psychology. This ten-month position brings a full salary. Candidates who have received teaching awards will be given especially serious consideration, but this is not a necessary condition for selection.

Visiting professors typically teach one undergraduate lecture course, organize a teaching related event, and participate in faculty-graduate seminars, colloquia, and other activities of the University Center for Human Values. They also enjoy access to Firestone Library and a wide range of activities throughout the University.

A selection committee of Center faculty evaluates applicants on the basis of:

• the quality of their teaching and relevance to the purposes of the University Center for Human Values;
• the quality of their previous research and their ability to benefit from and contribute to the activities of the University Center for Human Values;
• the contribution they are likely to make to higher education in the future through teaching and writing about ethics and human values.

How to Apply

The position has been filled through 2012-13. Information about appointments in future years will be posted when appropriate.