Postdoctoral Fellow
Company: UNC-Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Position Summary The Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting
for a Postdoctoral Fellow. This position is designed to support a
talented PPE scholar. Specific duties will include serving as
primary researcher and repository manager for the PPE Research
Consortium, a project which has been awarded $3.2m grant to offer
PPE research grants and to build an accessible infrastructure
supporting PPE research and teaching. The successful candidate will
be expected to contribute, through their own research activity, to
the thriving PPE research community here at UNC and to teach one
PPE course each academic year. The appointment will be for an
initial year with the possibility of annual renewal for up to an
additional two years, contingent upon satisfactory performance
review, available funding, and approval by the Program Director.
The position is open to candidates who have recently earned their
Ph.D. in philosophy, political science, or economics, or another
PPE -related field of study. We are particularly interested in
candidates with research focused on PPE who have teaching
experience. Experience and comfort working with databases and
interest in helping to design and build a repository of PPE related
material, is especially desirable. A successful candidate must
demonstrate an outstanding capacity to work well with others in
teams. They will be joining an active, vigorous, and welcoming
intellectual community. The successful candidate will be actively
involved in the PPE Program, helping to organize and run aspects of
its active extracurricular programming. They should also be able
and willing to teach courses that count toward the PPE minor,
including the ‘Gateway’ course that introduces students to the
tools of PPE . Further information about the PPE Program and its
courses is available at ppe.unc.edu. Required Qualifications,
Competencies, And Experience PhD in philosophy, political science,
economics, or another area directly connected to PPE . Preferred
Qualifications, Competencies, And Experience An active interest in
and engagement with research on social and political institutions
that does, or will, benefit from bringing together the tools of the
three namesake fields of PPE .
Keywords: UNC-Chapel Hill, Durham , Postdoctoral Fellow, Education / Teaching , Chapel Hill, North Carolina
