Associate Professor or Professor - Barbara Reardon Heaney Chair in Catholic Intellectual Life and Culture

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Description Creighton University invites applications for the distinguished position of the Barbara Reardon Heaney Chair in Catholic Intellectual Life and Culture. The position is open to scholars from any discipline offered by Creighton’s College of Arts and Sciences. The Chair will play a vital role in advancing scholarship, teaching, and programming related to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and Catholic Culture at Creighton University and will assume a pivotal role in advancing interdisciplinary initiatives across the university. The successful candidate will be appointed in the appropriate department in Creighton’s College of Arts and Sciences at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor with a 2/1 teaching load. Position Responsibilities: The Successful candidate will be expected to contribute in the following ways: - Promote Catholic intellectual life and studies - Foster Catholic culture, including the roles of liturgy, prayer, spiritualty, vocations, service, and leadership - Cultivate the practice of discernment, the Spiritual Exercises, and other values and ideals of the Society of Jesus - Explore the implications and influences of a life of faith upon our social,...