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<div class="">Passing on from HASTS alumna, Lan (cc’d), who works at <font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">
Rice and says it’s been fantastic to work there. </font><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">They're trying to make this hire to develop the STS program, beginning with the history department. Feel free to reach out to her with any questions!</span></div>
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<div class="">The School of Humanities at Rice University is inviting applications for the Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology and Innovation, at the rank of associate or full professor, to begin July 2021. The Baker College Chair will
be a notable scholar whose scholarship and teaching deal with innovative topics in the history of science and technology, broadly defined, and who is committed to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, and local, national, and international outreach.
Area of specialization, regional competencies, and time period are open. The Baker College Chair will have an active research program, be expected to play an important role in undergraduate and, as appropriate, graduate programs in the department, and offer
courses of interest to Rice students majoring in the humanities and STEM fields.</div>
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The successful candidate will join a robust department of historians with more than 25 tenured and tenure-track faculty at Rice, which is situated at the heart of the nation’s fourth-largest city and has a long tradition of excellence in both science and engineering
and the humanities. The Baker College Chair will have an opportunity to build bridges with a number of new initiatives at Rice, including the Data Sciences Initiative; the Medical Humanities Program; the Technology, Culture and Society Initiative; the Ion
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More information about the position can be found at: <b class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class=""><a href="https://jobs.rice.edu/postings/24233" class="">https://jobs.rice.edu/postings/24233</a></font><font color="#6fa8dc" class=""> </font></b></div>
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<div class="">We will start reviewing applications on October 15, 2020. For fullest consideration applications materials should be submitted by November 15, 2020.<br class="">
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<div class="">For more inquiries regarding the position, please contact Elizabeth Petrick at <b class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class=""><a href="mailto:elizabeth.petrick@rice.edu" class="">elizabeth.petrick@rice.edu</a></font></b></div>
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