Yale’s New Initiative
Political Order in the Changing World: A Continuing Hiring Initiative (this hiring initiative is currently on hold. See current Faulty openings.)
Yale University - Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Affairs
Yale University is seeking to appoint a junior political scientist with demonstrated research expertise in the study of South Asia. The successful candidate will be appointed at the rank of assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. We are seeking a scholar whose primary commitment is to research-South Asia. Those who place this in comparative perspective are also welcome. Teaching responsibilities will be divided between courses in the politics of South Asia and those that contribute to the more general political science curriculum. Yale is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and especially welcomes applications from women and underrepresented minority scholars. Applications, including a C.V., samples of scholarship, and two letters of reference, should be sent to Yale University, Department of Political Science, South Asia Search Committee, PO Box 208301, New Haven, CT 06520-8301. We will begin reviewing applications on September 21, 2009.
Send Applications/Questions to:
US Postal Service:
Susan Stokes, Chair
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 208301
New Haven, CT 06520-8301
Courier Service:
Stephen Skowronek, Chair
Department of Political Science
115 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8301
A New Initiative in Political Science at Yale University
The Yale Political Science department will continue to enlarge its ranks with a number of scholars doing original research on the big questions of political action and thought, design and disorder. Searches are still open to all ranks. Our aim is to appoint promising scholars who illuminate the political universe in rigorous, systematic, and original ways.
The searches will proceed in any of the five Initiative areas detailed below. They are open with respect to all traditional political science subfields and methodological persuasions.
Order, Conflict, and Violence
Possible concerns: revolution, riots, civil war, genocide, international war and peace; what makes conflict more or less violent; classical theorists of order and conflict such as Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, or Kant; the evolution of national; non–national, or transnational political orders; the politics of crime; the legitimation of order; or the state as an instrument of political order.
Representation and Popular Rule
Possible concerns: interest groups, political parties, money in politics; taxation; mass media; subsidiarity and transnational representation; redistricting and group representation (based on ethnicity, race, gender, or something else); failures of representation; demands for secession and suburban white flight; mass political action or the lack of it; preconditions for popular rule; or classic insights on these questions, such as those of Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, or Mill.
Distributive Politics
Possible concerns: distributional foundations and consequences of different regimes; capitalism and democracy; interactions between global markets and nation states; rights, entitlements, and welfare states; collective action; normative theories of distributive justice and positive theories of social choice, whether classical or contemporary; or the global distribution of goods and bads.
Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances
Possible concerns: the value of classic reflections such as those of Hegel or Nietzsche; relevant contemporary philosophical literature; the political psychology of partisanship and ideology; ethnicity, race, class, gender, nationalism, and religion as sources of political attachment; immigration, displaced persons, refugees and dual citizens; identities and allegiances in international politics (what brings states together, keeps them together, and drives them apart).
Crafting and Operating Institutions
Possible concerns: political institutions above and below the nation state and their evolution; constitutional design and democratic performance; the relevance of classics of institutional choice (e.g. Plato, Machiavelli, The Federalist) or contemporary analytic theory; parliamentism v. presidentialism, bicameralism v. unicameralism; confederal, federal, and unitary systems; components of institutional regimes such as courts, legislatures, bureaucracies, and executives, as well as their interactions; the political functions of non–governmental organizations.
