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<font style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(213, 218, 222); font-size: 14px;" class="">Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life will award a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Civic Science for the 2020-21 academic year (June
1, 2020-May 31, 2021). This postdoctoral fellowship is offered in partnership with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation in Dayton, OH, and involves some work at Kettering’s offices in Dayton as well as full-time employment at Tufts in the Boston area.</span></font>
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<font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">The Tisch College Civic Science initiative (<a href="https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/civic-studies/civic-science" class="">https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/civic-studies/civic-science</a>), led by Dr. Peter Levine and Dr.
Samantha Fried, aims to reframe the relationships among scientists and scientific institutions, institutions of higher education, the state, the media and the public. It also asks about the relationships and distinctions among those institutions, historically
and today. With this context in mind, Civic Science seeks to…</font></div>
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<li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="color: var(--textColor); background-color: var(--backgroundColor);" class=""></span>Reconfigure the national conversation on divisive and complex issues that are both scientific and political
in nature, thereby connecting scientific institutions, research, and publications to people’s values, beliefs, and choices.</font>
</li><li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Define and advance the public good in science, thereby finding ways for scientific institutions to better serve communities and human needs.</font>
</li><li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Develop curricula that simultaneously attend to scientific and civic issues and that teach students to understand and communicate both kinds of narratives together to a variety of audiences.</font>
</li><li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Develop approaches to democratic governance that are attuned to the role of the scientific enterprise in society.</font>
</li><li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Ask what it would mean to earn the trust of communities that have been historically marginalized by the institution of science, and what science would look like if this was a priority.</font>
</li><li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Intervene at the institutional and grassroots levels, alongside a robust theoretical analysis.</font>
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<div dir="auto" class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Applicants must also demonstrate a strong interest in investigating the intersections of science and civic matters as the focus of their postdoctoral year.</font></div>
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<div dir="auto" class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">A scholar with a PhD in any relevant discipline who is not yet tenured.</font></div>
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<div dir="auto" class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Desirable qualifications include, but are not limited to, the following:</font></div>
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<li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="color: var(--textColor); background-color: var(--backgroundColor);" class=""></span>A background, degree, or certificate in a STEM (or STEM-adjacent) field, OR</font>
</li><li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Research on the strengthening, designing, or the evaluation of democratic processes, OR</font>
</li><li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">A background in political science or political theory, OR</font>
</li><li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">A background in science, technology, and society (STS), OR</font>
</li><li class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">A background in critical theory, media studies, rhetoric, philosophy of science and technology, or science communication.</font>
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<div dir="auto" class=""><font style="font-size: 12px;" class="">For more information, and to learn more about application materials and further requirements, visit <a href="https://apply.interfolio.com/59747" class="">https://apply.interfolio.com/59747</a>.
Questions about the position should be addressed to Dr. Peter Levine, Associate Dean of Tisch College, at <a href="mailto:Peter.Levine@tufts.edu" class="">Peter.Levine@tufts.edu</a>.</font></div>
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(213, 218, 222);" class="">Tufts University</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(213, 218, 222);" class="">
<a href="https://www.samanthajofried.com/" style="caret-color: rgb(213, 218, 222);" class="">samanthajofried.com</a></div>
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