The Citadel
Job no: 496945
Work type: Full Time Permanent - Faculty
Location: Charleston
Categories: Humanities
The Department of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel invites applications for a full-time, [nine-month, tenure-track] Assistant Professor with expertise in irregular warfare, beginning August 2027. We seek a colleague who will bring original scholarship and imaginative teaching to a department helping students understand the exercise of power and prepare for the responsibilities of national security work.
The Position
The Department of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel invites applications for a full-time, [nine-month, tenure-track] Assistant Professor with expertise in irregular warfare, beginning August 2027. We seek a colleague who will bring original scholarship and imaginative teaching to a department helping students understand the exercise of power and prepare for the responsibilities of national security work.
Irregular warfare places difficult questions of intelligence, influence, and legitimacy at the center of the study of conflict. It demands attention to how states and nonstate actors mobilize populations, exploit uncertainty, and pursue political objectives through indirect means. This appointment offers the opportunity to advance scholarship on those questions while helping future practitioners develop the judgment to confront them.
The Department and The Citadel
Our department connects the intellectual breadth of the humanities and social sciences with the practical demands of intelligence. Its undergraduate and graduate degrees are certified by the International Association for Intelligence Education. Faculty combine active scholarship with professional experience, and the annual Day of Intrigue exercise brings students and intelligence practitioners together to work through complex national security scenarios.
A new $250,000 federal award is supporting the Intelligence Futures and Judgment Lab and a deeper integration of wargaming into the curriculum. Students must weigh incomplete evidence, respond to competing interests, and take responsibility for their decisions. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to help shape this work, connecting research on irregular warfare with the development of students' analytical judgment.
The Citadel gives this work a distinctive home. A public senior military college in Charleston, it has ranked first among Regional Universities in the South in U.S. News & World Report for three consecutive years. Faculty teach cadets preparing to commission as military officers, as well as students pursuing civilian careers in intelligence and national security. These students may soon be responsible for leading others and making consequential assessments. Teaching here offers the opportunity to develop the intellectual discipline and ethical judgment they will bring to those responsibilities.
Research and Teaching
We welcome specializations in insurgency and counterinsurgency, resistance and unconventional warfare, political warfare, proxy conflict, special operations, terrorism and counterterrorism, or information operations and influence. Regional and methodological approaches are open. Candidates should connect their expertise to broader questions in intelligence and security studies.
- Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in irregular warfare and broader intelligence and security studies, in person and online as assigned.