"Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor in Humanities, AI, and Data Science"

Boston College: Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

Location: Chestnut Hill, MA

Description:

The Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College invites applications for the position of Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor with a focus on Humanities, AI, and Data Science with a preference for ethicists, theologians, linguists, or social scientists. The appointment for this one-year postdoctoral visiting assistant professorship will be for the 2026-2027 academic year. Salary is competitive, and the position is renewable upon favorable review for up to three years.

Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university that strives to integrate research excellence with a foundational commitment to formative liberal arts education. Boston College requires all students to complete a liberal arts University Core Curriculum with 15 requirements as the foundation of their undergraduate education. Core Fellows teach signature courses in the Core including interdisciplinary Complex Problem and Enduring Question courses developed for first-year students which are part of an ongoing renewal of the University Core Curriculum. Core Fellows participate in the Core Fellows Program, which is designed to help newly-minted Ph.D. holders in their scholarly pursuits as well as in becoming outstanding instructors through pedagogical training focused on the education of the whole person. You can learn more about BC's Core Curriculum and the Core Fellows Program here: http://www.bc.edu/core.

During one semester of the 2026-2027 academic year, the Core Fellow will join a teaching team for a course with lecture, lab, and reflection session components. The Core Fellow will be primarily responsible for hands-on, project-based lab sections associated with the Complex Problem course, "Societal Impacts of AI," co-taught by faculty from the Lynch School of Education and the Computer Science Department. In the other semester, the Core Fellow will teach an Enduring Question course paired with a course designed by another scholar in the liberal arts. There may also be opportunities to teach electives in their field.

Qualifications:

Ph.D. in a relevant field (e.g., Education, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sociology, Theology, Computer/Information Sciences, and/or Environmental Humanities) should be conferred between August 1, 2024 and August 1, 2026.

The candidate must be enthusiastic about working with first-year students.

The expected 9-month salary range (paid over 12 months) for this position is $86,000 - $89,000. The actual pay offered to the selected candidate will depend based on factors such as, but not limited to, candidate qualifications and prior experience, scope of responsibilities, internal equity, and market considerations.

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