[HASTS-jobs] Fwd: Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology and Innovation

[Karen L Gardner]

Hi all -

Passing on from HASTS alumna, Lan (cc’d), who works at Rice and says it’s been fantastic to work there. 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!

Best,
Karen

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From: Lan Li <LL at rice.edu<mailto:LL at rice.edu>>
Subject: Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology and Innovation
Date: September 9, 2020 at 5:48:28 PM EDT
To: kgardner at mit.edu<mailto:kgardner at mit.edu>


Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology and Innovation

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.

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 Innovation Hub; the Baker Institute for Public Policy, and Environmental Studies in the School of the Humanities.

More information about the position can be found at: https://jobs.rice.edu/postings/24233

We will start reviewing applications on October 15, 2020. For fullest consideration applications materials should be submitted by November 15, 2020.

For more inquiries regarding the position, please contact Elizabeth Petrick at elizabeth.petrick at rice.edu<mailto:elizabeth.petrick at rice.edu>



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Lan A. Li
Assistant Professor
Medical Humanities Program, Department of History
Rice University | lan-a-li.com<http://lan-a-li.com/>


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Karen Gardner
Academic Administrator
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-163f
Cambridge, MA  02139
617-253-9759 (phone)
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