Position Openings

Visiting Instructor of History

History: Medieval And Early Modern Continental Europe.  The Alma College History Department invites applications for a full-time, one-year visiting instructor position beginning August 2011.  Position is provisional pending final administrative approval.  Candidates should be broadly trained in European history with a specialty in Medieval or Early Modern Continental Europe, with expertise and interest in teaching the other field.  Preference will be given to qualified candidates who have completed the Ph.D. by August 2011; experience in undergraduate teaching is highly desired.

The instructional load will include survey courses in world and European history and upper-level courses in areas of specialization.  Candidates must be committed to undergraduate learning and research at a selective Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts institution.

Candidates should send a letter of application, c.v., and contact information for three professional references to: Professor Edward Lorenz, Department Chairperson, Alma College, 614 W. Superior St., Alma, MI  48801-1599.  Review of applications will begin March 7, 2011 and continue until the position is filled.

Alma College is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty, staff, and student body.  For more information about the College please visit www.alma.edu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ninety-four percent of Alma College’s 2011 graduates reported working in full-time positions or attending graduate school within six months of graduation.

 

Graduate Profile

Brandon Edward Miller

Brandon Edward Miller
Graduation: 1997
Major: POE: Foreign Service and International Law

How many people can say they’ve sat as an intern at CNN’s international desk? Or worked as a press aide to Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations?

Served in the Peace Corps for four years in Ethiopia and Madagascar, worked at World Bank in its anti-corruption unit, studied at Harvard and served as a law clerk for a federal judge?

Brandon Edward Miller ’97 can.