Assistant/Associate or Full Professor

About the Cluster:

The Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center at NC State University serves as an international hub of interdisciplinary research, engaged scholarship and dialogues surrounding opportunities and challenges associated with genetic engineering and society. Positioned at the nexus of science and technology, the social sciences and humanities, the GES Center has taken a national and international lead in examining the technical, ethical, and societal dimensions of the products and impacts of biotechnology.

The GES cluster and center has been lauded as the “poster child for interdisciplinarity” at NC State through its composition, projects, educational programs, and events that span the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, arts, and engineering.
About The Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program (CFEP)

NC State launched the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program in 2011 as part of the 2011-2020 strategic plan to bring the nation’s best and brightest faculty to campus. The program enhances the university’s commitment to supporting and expanding interdisciplinarity through outstanding research and scholarship, and strengthens NC State’s historic expertise in the sciences, engineering, math, design, textiles, humanities and social sciences, and education. The program’s efforts align with NC State’s land-grant mission and vision, and build momentum toward strategic goals outlined in the new strategic plan, Wolfpack 2030: Powering the Extraordinary.

The current 20 clusters have been selected on these important criteria:

The Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program is supported and managed by the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs. The program has grown from an initial 12 clusters to 20 clusters today.

More than 75 current NC State faculty have been hired through the program. In addition to recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty and promoting NC State’s continued excellence and national renown, the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cultivates a growing culture of interdisciplinarity at the university. We invite you to explore more information about the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program and this cluster at http://facultyclusters/ncsu.edu.
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About NC State

At NC State, we create prosperity for North Carolina and the nation. We began as a land-grant institution grounded in agriculture and engineering. Today, we’re a pre-eminent research enterprise that excels across disciplines.

NC State is a powerhouse in science, technology, engineering and math. We lead in agriculture, education, textiles, business and natural resources management. We’re at the forefront of teaching and research in design, the humanities and the social sciences. And we’re home to one of the world’s best colleges of veterinary medicine.

Our more than 37,000 undergraduate and graduate students learn by doing. They pursue original research and start new companies. They forge connections with top employers and serve communities local and global. Through it all, they enjoy an outstanding return on investment.

Whether it’s Princeton Review ranking NC State among the nation’s best values for universities, Money magazine naming it the No. 1 best college for your money in North Carolina, or U.S. News & World Report ranking NC State among the top 10 best values in public higher education, the university has many reasons to be proud.

Each year, NC State adds $6.5 billion to the statewide economy, equivalent to creating more than 90,000 new jobs. That represents a significant return on investment for the citizens of North Carolina in the form of research advances, innovative technologies, successful companies, skilled graduates and new jobs waiting for them.

Our 9,400 faculty and staff are world leaders in their fields, bridging the divides between academic disciplines and training high-caliber students to meet tomorrow’s challenges. Together, they forge powerful partnerships with government, industry, nonprofits and academia to remake our world for the better. We expect everyone to give of their talents, skills, time and effort to make NC State an environment of excellence for all.
NC State University provides a vibrant environment for research, teaching and mentoring across

disciplines; ample opportunities will be available for collaborations with existing faculty and other

newly hired colleagues in the Translational Predictive Biology (TPB) cluster. NC State’s location in the Research Triangle also facilitates interaction with faculty at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as with industry and government agencies.

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What we offer:

Attain Work-life balance with our Childcare benefits, Wellness & Recreation Membership, and Wellness Programs that aim to build a thriving wolfpack community.
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About the position:

The GES cluster is hiring a tenure-track faculty (open rank) with experience in working across disciplines and within interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary programs.

Although the search would not be limited to these areas, we are particularly interested in applicants that have worked in the following intersectional domains:

These domains complement other interdisciplinary areas at NC State such as the AI & Society Center, the Genetics and Genomics Academy, North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative, and the Bezos Center for Sustainable Proteins at NC State. However, we consider scholars working in other domains as well.

We are also particularly interested in scholars with disciplinary training in the following areas: philosophy/ethics, history, science and technology studies, anthropology, and sociology. However, the search will consider scholars with training in other disciplines in the natural or social sciences, risk governance, or humanities.

The new GES faculty member would be situated in a tenure home department in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Natural Resources, College of Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, or other appropriate college. They would contribute 50% of their time to their home department. The other 50% would be dedicated to teaching in the GES minor/certificate programs and/or the Genetics and Genomics Academy training programs, contributing to collaborative grant development for the GES Center, and serving on the GES Center’s executive committee which sets strategy and program planning for the center. T/TT home department will be negotiated with the candidate based on the candidate’s disciplinary experience and with the appropriate college dean and department chair at NC State.

Other duties as assigned.

Rank will be awarded based on education and experience.

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For full consideration, we’ll consider applications until January 15, 2026.

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