"Assistant Professor of Chemistry"

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Two Assistant Professorships in Organic and in BioOrganic/Chemical Biology, Middlebury College, MIDDLEBURY, VT -- The Chemistry Department invites applicants for two full-time tenure-track positions, one in organic chemistry and one in bioorganic/chemical biology, beginning fall 2026. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, or a closely related field (postdoctoral experience preferred) and demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching and research. The successful candidates will be expected to teach ~4.5 classes per year, including organic chemistry, biochemistry (for those with bioorganic expertise), general chemistry, and electives in the candidate's area of specialization. Research with undergraduate students is expected and strongly supported. Candidates with areas of expertise that complement existing areas of strength at Middlebury and within the department are particularly encouraged to apply.

As part of a full teaching load, the candidate will also occasionally contribute to Middlebury's First Year Seminar Program and Winter Term course offerings. All faculty at Middlebury are also expected to contribute to service to the College including, but not limited to, committee membership and serving as Director or Chair of a Program or Department when asked.

Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in both faculty teaching, research, and service. It is also an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a truly open, and supportive learning, teaching, and working environment. The College hires faculty from a myriad of life experiences, cultures, frames of reference, social identities, and learning perspectives to help cultivate and advance innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our talented and distinguished student body. At Middlebury, we strive to make our campus a respectful, engaged community that embraces difference, and a full range of views and opinions, with all the complexity and individuality each person brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.

Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. Through Interfolio submit: a letter of application addressed to Prof. AJ Vasiliou, Search Chair; a curriculum vitae; undergraduate and graduate transcripts; a teaching statement that describes a) your approach and plans for classroom teaching and pedagogy and b) a description of how your past work (as applicable) and future plans in the areas of teaching, mentorship, research, and/or community engagement seek to foster equitable educational excellence for students from diverse personal and educational backgrounds; a statement of research plans, including anticipated space and start-up needs; and three current confidential letters of recommendation, at least two of which must speak to teaching ability/promise. More information is available at https://apply.interfolio.com/169447 and at Additional information for CHEM Faculty Applicants. The application deadline is September 7, 2025. Questions should be directed to the Search Chair, Prof. AJ Vasiliou (avasiliou@middlebury.edu). This is a full time, benefits eligible, salaried position with a hiring range of $88,963 – $100,129 per year.

Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information on our background check policy can be found at: http://go.middlebury.edu/backgroundchecksLinks to an external site.

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Middlebury is one of the country's top liberal arts colleges. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward, and a realization that the traditional insularity of the United States is something of the past. We seek to bring to Middlebury those who wish not only to learn about themselves and their own traditions, but also to see beyond the bounds of class, culture, region, or nation. Indeed, the central purpose of a Middlebury education is precisely to transcend oneself and one's own concerns. This transcendence may come for some through the study of other cultures; for some through the study of the environment; for others it will come through inquiry into such fields as physics or philosophy, mathematics or music.

Middlebury's undergraduate college is enriched by its other programs. Every summer, the main campus in Vermont is transformed into an institution single-mindedly devoted to the study of nine foreign languages and cultures, and the use of English is virtually banned for the participants, among whom are many Middlebury undergraduates. In the Green Mountains lies Middlebury's Bread Loaf campus, where for six weeks each summer the Bread Loaf School of English is in session. This is followed by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, which brings together 200 authors and aspiring authors for 11 days of intensive exchange about the art of writing. The Bread Loaf School of English is in session each summer not only in Middlebury but also at Lincoln College, Oxford, in the United Kingdom; at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville

There is also an overseas dimension to Middlebury College. The C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad are located in Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Concepción, Córdoba, Ferrara, Florence, Getafe, Guadalajara, Hangzhou, Irkutsk, La Serena, Logroño, Madrid, Mainz, Montevideo, Moscow, Niterói, Paris, Poitiers, Santiago, Temuco, Tucumán, Valdivia, Valparaíso, Xalapa, and Yaroslavl. These schools enroll more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students who seek to further their foreign language skills and immerse themselves as fully as possible in the host culture through academic study as well as direct experience.