Associate Professorship in Comparative Central and Eastern European Politic

at  University of Oxford

The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) in association with St Antony’s College are recruiting to the post of Associate Professorship in Comparative Central and Eastern European Politics to start from 1 September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a joint post with 50% of the position dedicated to DPIR and 50% to OSGA.
Applications are welcome from both early career and established scholars in any sub-field of political science.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach and supervise in comparative Central and East European politics at the undergraduate and graduate level, to contribute to the graduate research design or methods teaching sequences across both departments, and to act as a College Adviser for graduate students and to contribute to the convening of talks and events for the centres at St Antony’s College. They will be expected to play a leading role in the development and delivery of Central and Eastern European politics training within across departments’ graduate and undergraduate programmes. They will also be contributing to the core courses and as appropriate, to other graduate core courses in politics, including methods and research design training.
DPIR strongly encourages applications from women and/or candidates from a BME background as they are currently under-represented in academic posts.
If you would like to discuss this post and find out more about joining the academic community at Oxford, please contact Professor David Doyle, Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations (david.doyle@politics.ox.ac.uk/ telephone +44 (0)1865 276827), or Professor Paul Chaisty, Head of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (paul.chaisty@politics.ox.ac.uk/telephone: +44 (0)1865 284779).
All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence and will not form part of the selection decision.

Please refer the Job description for details