Security Studies (Assistant Professor)

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Security Studies (Assistant Professor)

College/School/Unit: School of Civic Leadership

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Apply By: Open until filled

The School of Civic Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) invites applications for full-time tenure-track at the Assistant Professor level in Security Studies. The School of Civic Leadership especially seeks diplomatic and military historians, political scientists, international relations theorists, political theorists, classicists, and others who bring relevant scholarly expertise to the perennial challenges of foreign affairs and its central activities of diplomacy, intelligence, and war.

In partnership with the Clements Center for National Security, the School of Civic Leadership will offer a major in Strategy and Statecraft in August 2027 with plans for graduate degrees forthcoming. The major in Strategy and Statecraft employs diplomatic and military history, a classical and modern ‘bookshelf' of strategic thinkers, modern foreign languages, political science, and coursework with distinguished practitioners to educate students for careers in the public and private sectors, rigorous graduate programs, and advanced scholarship.

Applicants should be able to contribute to teaching some of the core courses in the major, including:

• American Diplomatic and Military History
• Classics and Modern Classics of Strategy (i.e. Herodotus through Brands)
• European Diplomatic and Military History or Non-Western Diplomatic and Military History
• Adversary Net Assessment
• Recent and Contemporary Challenges in Diplomacy, Intelligence, and Defense

The strongest applicants will also be able to teach advanced coursework that is consistent with these broad themes.

Qualifications

We seek outstanding candidates with a Ph.D. in a related field whose work and approach to teaching respect the role and work of foreign affairs in a democracy and complement the School of Civic Leadership's core themes: political, economic, and individual liberty and its philosophical underpinnings; constitutionalism and the rule of law; and the political economy of a free society. Ideal candidates will (1) have excellent records of scholarship with robust research agendas, (2) provide evidence of exceptional teaching, and (3) show a readiness to contribute to the intellectual life, governance, and programmatic development of the School of Civic Leadership.

Application Instructions

The School of Civic Leadership invites applicants to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation. Cover letters should give a brief overview of the candidate's research agenda, highlight areas of teaching competence, and concisely describe how the candidate would contribute to developing the major in Strategy and Statecraft in the School of Civic Leadership.

Review of applications will begin September 15, 2025 and continue until all positions are filled.