Position Summary

The Department of Philosophy, in the College of Arts and Letters (CAL) and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) at Michigan State University (MSU) invite applications for a full-time, 12-month tenured W.K. Kellogg Foundation Endowed position with research, teaching, and service/outreach assignment. The successful candidate will negotiate a joint appointment among the Department of Philosophy and one or more of the 12 units within CANR. The position start date is anticipated to be August 16, 2023.

We seek an internationally known scholar who has made outstanding contributions as a researcher, teacher, and thought leader in philosophical ethics as it relates to agriculture, food systems, sustainability, resilience and community. Scholars working in areas of environmental justice and climate change, agricultural (or animal and/or land) bioethics, food sovereignty, health disparities, food justice, and similar fields are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate should also be positioned to be a leader in MSU's new Ethics Institute as that initiative unfolds. * *

Position duties include, but are not limited to:

• Providing leadership to a campus-wide program in ethics as it relates to agriculture, food systems, sustainability, resilience, and community.
• Actively supervising Master's and PhD students in the departments where appointed.
• Promoting awareness/outreach among undergraduate students and community stakeholders concerning the need to address ethical issues as they arise in the context of agriculture, sustainability, food systems, and across rural-urban life.
• Developing a cohesive research program to advance scholarly understanding in agricultural ethics which will contribute to practical application, and to expand into areas of one's specialization. The individual's research and outreach program will result in scholarly output published in international, national, and regional journals and reports and support the University's mission and interests. 
• Conducting collaborative, interdisciplinary work with other faculty in related areas of applied and practiced ethics (e.g., bioethics, land ethics), and securing grant funding to support such efforts.
• Contributing to the ethics training of students at the undergraduate and graduate level.* *

The Department of Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy's distinctive brand is "Engaged Philosophy," which aims to expand philosophy's traditional agenda, making the field more richly responsive to the multitude of voices and values in human communities, engaging philosophical reflection with the problems and resources of other disciplines, and grappling with pressing problems, both theoretical and practical. Diversifying the profession is an aim articulated in the mission statement of the Department. Faculty are teaching and doing research in areas of philosophy that concern diverse populations, including African American philosophy, feminist theory, environmental justice, and social justice. Since 1998 the Department has exemplified "Engaged Philosophy" by striving to achieve national and international distinction in research and graduate education in three related areas: Bioethics/PHL of Healthcare and Medicine, Feminist thought (e.g., in Bioethics, Epistemology, and Social and Political Philosophy), and since 2011 Environmental Philosophy and Ethics. We are especially welcoming to interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and crossdisciplinarity researchers and to inclusive frameworks that support a pluralistic conception of philosophical practice.

The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

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