American University in Cairo Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowships

Deadline: 1 May 2007

The American University in Cairo (AUC) is pleased to announce the establishment of a program of Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowships for recent Ph.D. graduates. The program is designed to provide fellows with the opportunity to acquire the skills and experience necessary for success in teaching. It also supplies fellows with travel and other support for research purposes.

Fellows will primarily teach students engaged in the AUC's freshman-level Core Curriculum. The Core is designed to introduce students to the liberal arts and sciences. The cornerstones of the Core are Philosophical Thinking, a course that requires all students to address such fundamental human concerns as the nature of justice, social responsibility, freedom and knowledge; and Scientific Thinking, another course required of all students, which introduces them to the scientific method and discusses some of the critical concepts and debates of modern science. The Core also includes a variety of additional freshman-level courses in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Fellows will teach Core courses that reflect their personal interests and disciplinary backgrounds. They will also have the opportunity to teach one additional course each semester in their own disciplines. A number of appointments to AUC's program of Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowships will be made beginning in fall 2007.

Candidates are welcome in any of the following disciplines: Anthropology, Economics, Philosophy, Biology, History, Political Science, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Sociology.

To be eligible for appointment, applicants for Post-Doctoral Fellowships should have received their Ph.D.'s within three calendar years of the date of application. In exceptional cases A.B.D.'s will be considered. Teaching experience is not required. Successful applicants will:

  1. Be appointed as visiting assistant professors if they have completed their Ph.D.'s at the time of appointment. In other circumstances they will be appointed at the rank of instructor;
  2. Hold terms of appointment for two or three academic years starting September 1, 2007;
  3. Receive annual home leave and airfare at the time of both arrival and departure, including support for travel associated with a job search at the end of the period of employment at AUC;
  4. Receive special research awards of up to $5000 per year in each year of their appointment;
  5. Participate in a monthly seminar organized specifically for them by AUC's Core Curriculum Office. The seminar provides Fellows with an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and views with leading scholars and intellectuals from both Egypt and the wider Arab world.

AUC's campus is currently located in Cairo, Egypt, but will be moving to a new, state-of-the-art campus in New Cairo beginning Fall Semester, 2008.

AUC is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

For more information see our website at www.aucegypt.edu.

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