Back to Job OpeningsProfessor of American Political Thought, Government, and HistoryApplyShareCornerstone University Grand Rapids, Michigan Cornerstone University invites applications from accomplished teacher-scholars committed to the study of American political thought, constitutional government, history, and the Christian intellectual tradition. The position is available for a January or August 2027 start date.
This is an unusual opportunity to join a university making a significant investment in the renewal of Christian liberal education. Through our newly redesigned Cornerstone Core curriculum, expanding Honors Program, and growing national profile in the study of American government and civic engagement, we seek tenure-track faculty members who are eager to shape students not merely for successful careers, but for lives
of wisdom, faithful leadership, and principled public service. Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Cornerstone University is a confessional evangelical institution whose mission is to educate students to influence the world for Jesus Christ. We believe the great questions of history, political philosophy, theology, and constitutional government remain essential for forming thoughtful citizens and faithful Christians.
The successful candidate will join a community of faculty committed to rigorous scholarship, vibrant classroom discussion, and the enduring value of liberal education rooted in the Christian tradition. Classification: 9/10-month faculty; Salaried About Cornerstone Cornerstone has recently launched an ambitious university-wide Core curriculum that introduces every undergraduate student to the beauty of the Christian
worldview, the wisdom of the American experience and an emphasis on market intelligence and free enterprise. For the courses in the pillar of the Wisdom of the American Experience, students engage primary texts from Scripture, the Christian tradition, original texts from the American founding, and the modern world through courses designed to cultivate intellectual humility, historical understanding, moral reasoning,
and civic responsibility. Cornerstone’s Great Works Canon of the American Experience - a curated set of 50 works foundational to the birth and continual development of the United States - serves as the bedrock of the course materials for this curriculum. The university has also expanded its Honors Program and continues to invest in nationally recognized initiatives exploring the relationship between Christianity and
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