Maastricht University Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy
The department of philosophy at Maastricht University is looking for an Assistant Professor in political philosophy, with a research focus on inequality in contemporary European democracies. We are searching for someone enthusiastic about connecting normative theory with real-world challenges, working across disciplinary boundaries, and contributing to collaborative research.
You have a research profile in contemporary political philosophy or political theory. You contribute to normative and conceptual debates about inequality in contemporary European democracies and the interaction between different dimensions of such inequality (e.g. social, cultural, economic, and political). Potential focal points of your contribution may include but are by no means limited to theorizing (responses to) the challenges posed to contemporary democracies by concentrated economic power, precarization, the resurgence of inegalitarian political ideologies, and the political economy of financialized capitalism. You are capable of connecting your normative and conceptual research to empirical scholarship.
You will join our “Europe: Society, Politics, and Global Order” research programme. You will teach across our BA and MA degree programmes. You will also be part of the Dutch national-level humanities and social sciences sector plan “Societal Inequality and Diversity”, in which you liaise with colleagues from other traditions of inquiry, such as qualitative social research or psychology.
