Assistant in Instruction (AI) Position Postings for Fall 2017
Note: Teaching assignments are dependent on course enrollments, candidate qualifications, and the availability of resources that must be approved by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.
As the introductory course required to concentrate or earn a certificate in African American Studies, this course examines the past and present, the doings and the sufferings of Americans of African descent from a multidisciplinary perspective. It highlights the ways in which serious intellectual scrutiny of the agency of black people in the United States help redefine what it means to be American, new world, modern and post modern
Instructor(s):Imani Perry
If interested please contact: Name: Jana Johnson E-mail: jana.johnson@princeton.edu Phone:
Position 1 Primary Duties: Assistant instructors in the Department of African American Studies are expected to attend all lectures in addition to their precept sections, as well as to schedule at least 2 office hours per week.
Number of AI Hours with Position:
Background Required: Completion of AAS 500 Introduction to African American Intellectual Tradition is a plus, but is not required. Candidates are expected to have a general background in African American Studies. Please send a copy of your CV indicating interest to Jana Johnson at jana.johnson@princeton.edu. All candidates must have completed the AI Orientation offered by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning by the time fall classes begin.
An analysis of the social, political, legal, and cultural dimensions of the African American experience in the United States throughout critical historical moments such as Reconstruction, suffrage, the Great Migration, war, the Great Depression, the New Deal, the Civil Rights era, the black power movement, and contemporary racial politics. Two lectures, one preceptorial.
Instructor(s):Joshua B. Guild
Background Required: Completion of AAS 500 Introduction to African American Intellectual Tradition is a plus, but is not required. Candidates are expected to have sufficient knowledge, and/or a research interest in African American history. Please send a copy of your CV indicating interest to Jana Johnson at jana.johnson@princeton.edu. All candidates must have completed the AI Orientation offered by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning by the time fall classes begin.
Should we be trying to live our lives so as to do the most good, and if so, what would that involve? Does a human embryo have a greater claim to protection than a chimpanzee? Should we be able to choose to end our own life, if we are terminally ill? Are we ethically required to limit our greenhouse gas emissions? What is an ethical diet? Are we justified in eating animals? Why should we act ethically, anyway? You will be encouraged to question your own ethical beliefs on these and other issues, and to explore the extent to which reason and argument can play a role in everyday ethical decision-making.
Instructor(s):Peter Albert David Singer
If interested please contact: Name: Peter Singer E-mail: singerp@gmail.com Phone: 609-258-2739
Position 1 Primary Duties:
Number of AI Hours with Position: 1
Background Required: Applicants must have taken a course in ethics. Interested applicants should submit a CV, a letter detailing their knowledge of ethics and their teaching experience, and the names and email addresses of up to 3 professors who can testify to their teaching experience. Interested applicants should contact Professor Singer directly at singerp@gmail.com We will not make final commitments until we know the enrollment numbers for the course.
Starting and operating a complex venture in a regulated market is often faced with tremendous challenges in developing and validating the idea to attract investors and industry partners. With an initial perspective of what it takes to attract funding, the course will focus on teaching three main skills 1) What makes a complex business initially fundable through private and public resources, 2) Identifying the problem and validating the solution in a regulated, multi-stakeholder market 3) Launching the business and developing the operational plan post launch.
Instructor(s):Shahram Hejazi
If interested please contact: Name: Victoria Dorman E-mail: vdorman@princeton.edu Phone: 6092588676
Position 1 Primary Duties: assist in the classroom with managing in-class team exercises, manage communications with students, help with course materials review, help with grading
Number of AI Hours with Position: 3 AI hours
Background Required: interest in entrepreneurship
This hands-on course introduces students to analysis and actions required to launch and commercialize a tech company, through the use of Harvard Business School cases, visits from entrepreneurs, and two "field assignments". You will learn conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques for evaluating technologies, markets, and commercialization strategies. Additionally, you will learn how to attract and motivate the resources needed to start a company (e.g. people, corporate partners and venture capital), prepare business plans, structure relationships, refine product-market fit, and create and grow enterprise value.
Instructor(s):Christopher Brian Kuenne
Position 1 Primary Duties: help with course materials and managing in-class team exercises
This film genre course addresses the cultural heritage of our national cinema. How has cinema shaped American culture, and how has American culture shaped cinema? We will focus on iconic figures in American film: robbers, tycoons, immigrants, cowboys, gangsters, detectives, lovers, monsters, cyborgs, survivors. Each week will pair an early film with a later one to trace a given genre's evolution; for example, the week on westerns might pair John Ford's "The Searchers" (1956) with Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" (2005). The course studies commercial Hollywood films that serve as important barometers of their times.
Instructor(s):Diana Jean Fuss
If interested please contact: Name: Pat Guglielmi E-mail: patg@princeton.edu Phone: 609-258-4224
Position 1 Primary Duties: Precept leader. In addition to leading a precept(s) and holding office hours, AIs in the English Department are expected to attend the course lecture.
Number of AI Hours with Position: TBD
Background Required: *Please submit a copy of your current CV. *Indicate the number of precepts you are interested in being considered for. *Indicate any FA17 schedule commitments you have that you are aware of at this time.
This course investigates language in its social, cultural, political, and historical contexts. Does your native language influence your perception, your behavior, and your culture? How does your identity influence properties of your language? What happens when unrelated languages come into contact for prolonged periods? How are new languages born? Why isn't English the official language of the United States, and should it be? We will explore these questions (and more) by engaging with the often contradictory opinions of specialists and the public, as well as with the empirical realities behind these different language situations.
Instructor(s):Laura Kalin
If interested please contact: Name: Yolanda Sullivan E-mail: syolanda@princeton.edu Phone: 609-258-8577
Position 1 Primary Duties: Linguistics is searching for an AI Grader to assist Prof. Laura Kalin in grading. AI will also be expected to attend lectures, hold office hours and interact with students. Teaching not required.
Number of AI Hours with Position: 2
Background Required: General background in Linguistics required.
The course is to serve as an introduction to the theology of one of the greatest minds in the Western Christian tradition, Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274). Based on his most systematic work, the Summa Theologiae as the main source, the course will cover some of the central themes of his theology, mainly through readings of the primary source itself, and some secondary readings. Thomas Aquinas has in recent decades become a source common to most of the mainstream Christian theological traditions. Aquinas is an essential resource for any who simply want to study a dominating intellectual force within the wider cultures of the Western middle ages.
Instructor(s):Denys Alan Turner
If interested please contact: Name: Lorraine Fuhrmann E-mail: fuhrmann@princeton.edu Phone:
Position 1 Primary Duties: Assistant instructors are expected to attend all lectures, be available for meetings with instructor, hold office hours each week and assess student papers. Number of AI Hours with Position:
Background Required: Please submit a copy of your current CV and a brief statement of teaching experience and interest.