OPEN INTERNATIONAL FACULTY POSITIONS for 2012-13

All positions have been filled for the 2012-13 year. Please revisit this page in the fall for openings in the 2013-14 year.

Joint Academic Committee (JAC)

Per the Memorandum of Understanding, a Joint Academic Committee (JAC) of faculty and staff from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Nanjing University (NJU) meet each year to discuss the status of the certificate program and the Master of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) and select faculty from among prescreened applicants.  In a three-year period, the JAC will meet in Nanjing twice and Washington once.  The JAC met in Nanjing in January of 2010 and 2011, and will reconvene in Washington, D.C. in January of 2012.

Faculty selection is the JAC’s key responsibility and is based on the following criteria:

• Appropriate terminal degrees.
• Institution where terminal degree received.
• List of academic publications.
• Familiarity with recent and international literature in their fields.
• Current teaching position.
• Quality of teaching.
• Outstanding teaching records attested to in student evaluations.
• Previous teaching experience.
• Length of commitment to the Center.
• Interest in serving as academic and master’s thesis advisors.
• Record of interest in building academic institutions, through service on library and curriculum committees.
• Applicability of candidate’s experience to HNC planned course offerings.
• Ability to interact with students and colleagues.
• Interest in the structure and mission of the Center.
• Interest in contributing to the daily life of the Center community

JAC Committee members for January 2012 are:

Hopkins-Nanjing Center

• Cai Jiahe, Academic Dean
• Paul Armstrong-Taylor, Resident Professor of Economics
• Hua Tao, Professor of History
• Huang Chengfeng, Chinese Co-Director
• Jason Patent, American Co-Director

Nanjing University

• Pu Lijie, Director, School of Graduate Studies
• Shao Jiandong, Professor of Law
• Zhang Erzhen, Dean, Department of International Economics
• Zhu Yingquan, Chairman, History Department

Johns Hopkins University -SAIS

• Gordon Bodnar, Director, International Economics
• John Harrington, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
• Bruce Parrott, Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Ruth Wedgwood, Director, International Law