Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Teaching Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society

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Job Title:

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Teaching Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society

Department:

Academic Affairs Administration | Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society

The Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society

The Ohio State University’s motto, Disciplina in Civitatem, or “education for citizenship,” is not merely a slogan; it’s an exhortation to remain focused on the responsibility to develop an informed, engaged, and civic-minded citizenry. It is essential to fulfilling Ohio State’s land-grant mission.

In 2023, the State of Ohio established and funded the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at Ohio State ("the Chase Center"). The Center will grow over time under the leadership of its Executive Director who will define the Center’s vision, appoint at least fifteen tenure-track scholars to realize that vision, and oversee the development of curriculum in accordance with the Center’s statutory mission to “conduct teaching and research in the historical ideas, traditions, and texts that have shaped the American constitutional order and society” (ORC § 3335.39). 

The Chase Center is a multidisciplinary university center that will conduct teaching, research, and public programming concerning the core texts and great debates of Western civilization; the principles, ideals, and institutions of the American and Ohio political order; and the foundations of responsible leadership and informed citizenship. It is an independent academic unit of the University. The Center is a leader of the growing cadre of similar centers of civic thought and leadership in Ohio and throughout the country.

Position Overview

The Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society is conducting a nationwide search for its inaugural faculty. The Center seeks to fill Professor of Teaching positions at all ranks, to start in the 2025–2026 academic year. Professors of Teaching are on five-year renewable contracts. Successful candidates will be quality scholars and excellent teachers with research and teaching in disciplines relevant to civic thought and leadership, including (but not limited to) economics, English, history, law, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and sociology. Professors of Teaching will teach, publish research, and make contributions to their academic discipline in a manner that serves the Center’s mission, and will be actively engaged in the Center’s and Ohio State’s intellectual life. 

The Center’s founding faculty will be public-spirited scholars who are committed to building an academic community in which civic life and the life of the mind flourish. As the heart of