Open Rank Professor- Political Science

Position description

At Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), our new strategic plan WSSU 2030 Unleash the Genius commits our employees to create a unique, responsive learning experience that unleashes the genius of each student. Our employees must provide our students with a high-quality educational experience in a culturally engaging campus environment where they thrive as learners, scholars, and leaders. To actualize this outcome, we must have strong, visionary faculty committed to delivering quality instruction, student success inside and outside the classroom, engaging the community and professional organizations within the academic discipline, and producing original scholarship that adds to the body of knowledge within the professional discipline; moreover, our faculty must collaborate with internal and external constituents to achieve the institution’s vision of advancing equity and upward mobility.

Given this context, the faculty in the Department of History, Politics, and Social Justice invites applications for an open rank nine-month tenure-track Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education with a start date of August 2025. This position also has the potentialof an Endowed Distinguished Professorship for a distinguished candidate with extensive scholarship, grantsmanship, and an excellent teaching portfolio.Job responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses, serving as a faculty advisor, mentoring and coaching students inside and outside the classroom; coordinator of the Political Science major; and producing scholarly research that results in publications in peer-reviewed journals within the discipline area or within peer-reviewed journals that promote the teaching and learning of the discipline; facilitating presentations at well-respected professional conferences; engaging in the procurement of extramural funds with interdisciplinary teams; participating in departmental, College, and university service as well as engaging in service to one’s professional discipline and the larger Winston-Salem and Forsyth County community.

Preferred Years Experience,Skills, Training , Education : 

Candidates must possess the following requirements for consideration:

  • Applicants must have a doctoral degree in Political Science or a closely related field from a regionally accredited college/university, postdoctoral or equivalent research experience, and the potential for attracting extramural funding.
  • Candidates must have at least two years of teaching and/or industry training experience in political science topics in any of the following formats: teaching courses, training sessions, conducting professional development workshops, and/or other continuing education seminars.
  • Candidates must possess effective written and verbal communication skills, and they must illustrate effective interpersonal skills.
  • Candidates must demonstrate an ability to work collaboratively across our undergraduate degree programs in Political Science, History, and Justice Studies with colleagues to develop and expand cross-disciplinary course offerings and enhance co-curricular programs.

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