Faculty - Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow is a full-time, one-year position, with the possibility of renewal for one additional year following excellent performance. Preferred start date of August 1, 2024. The salary is $62,500 for an 11-month contract.
The Civic Thought and Leadership Initiative (CTLI) is funded by the Utah legislature and located in UVU’s Center for Constitutional Studies. The purpose of CTLI is to develop the next generation of citizens and civic leaders by cultivating the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and virtues necessary for a just, free, and flourishing constitutional republic. We do this through mentoring UVU students, supporting K-12 teachers, conducting research, and fostering civil public discourse. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will further these efforts by teaching one undergraduate course per semester (likely POLS 1000: American Heritage), mentoring UVU students, designing and executing conferences and other public events, and furthering their rigorous research agenda, preferably on topics such as civic virtue, virtue ethics, natural law, civil dialogue, American constitutional history, American political and constitutional thought, federalism, or state constitutions. 
We are also particularly interested in candidates who are currently using, or are interested in using, the Quill Project in their research (https://www.uvu.edu/ccs/quill-project/index.html ). Developed at the University of Oxford, the Quill Project is a groundbreaking digital humanities software platform that creates interactive visual and textual models of constitutional conventions, legislative proceedings, or any formal negotiations that produce a governing text.  UVU has recently completed a major NEH-funded project using the Quill platform and is now beginning work on a three-year Major Collaboratives Grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission with Pembroke College Oxford to advance the study of the state constitutional tradition in America. 

• Furthering a rigorous personal research agenda 
• Teaching one undergraduate course per semester     
• Designing and executing conferences and other public events, other tasks as assigned

Ph.D. degree in hand from an accredited institution in history, political science, government, philosophy, or related field; exceptional and advanced ABD candidates will be considered.

Knowledge         

• Knowledge of American political thought, constitutional history and law, political philosophy, or related field.

• Exceptional undergraduate teaching skills.
• Solid public speaking and presentation skills to a non-academic audience.
• Excellent interpersonal, initiative, teamwork, problem-solving, organization, communication (verbal and written), time management, project management, and presentation skills.

• Ability to engage individually and collaboratively with varied participants and stakeholders, including faculty, staff, students, teachers, and government officials.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks or projects simultaneously to meet assigned deadlines.

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