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August 26, 2008
(Updated September 5, 2008)
The Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership invites applications for its annual Resident Fellowship Program for Academic Year 2009-2010, in collaboration with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
The goal of the Stockdale Residential Fellows program is to bring together academic scholars and teachers with senior career military officers, civil servants, and others to collaborate on strengthening public understanding of the ethics of war and peace, ethics and the military profession, and the relationship of ethics and character to the development of effective leadership in a variety of professional and institutional settings. Ideal candidates from academia will be established scholars with publications and substantial teaching experience in philosophy and ethics, international relations, behavioral sciences, or public policy. The Stockdale fellowship provides a sabbatical supplement (or, for select applicants, full financial support) to enable such scholars to encompass a focus on ethics and military affairs, national defense, and international relations in their ongoing teaching and research.
In AY 2009-10, the Stockdale Center anticipates having funding for one, and possibly two academic residential fellows. The academic fellows will be joined by senior officers from the Navy, Marine Corps, and possibly other branches of military service, and at least one additional fellow selected from the Naval Academy's own faculty. Fellows collaborate in a weekly seminar devoted to a specific theme identified as an emerging ethics/leadership challenge of critical importance to the nation. In recent years, such research themes have included "Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Islamic Social Thought," "The Rise of Military Anthropology," and (in 2008-09) "Outsourcing War: Ethical Dilemmas of Private Military Contracting." The Stockdale Fellows will also enjoy an affiliation with the Carnegie Council's program in "Ethics, War and Peace." The Stockdale Center provides resident fellows with travel and research support to enable participation in the lectures, seminar discussions, and other research activities sponsored by the Carnegie Council in this affiliated program in Washington, DC and New York City. Fellows also have ample time and opportunity to carry out their own individual research projects and other activities in cooperation with a large department of senior civilian philosophers, and approximately forty senior military officers (ranging in rank from Commander/Lieutenant Colonel to Admiral), who collaborate with one another in the teaching of the Academy’s required core course, "Ethics and the Military Profession."
Fellows receive office space, computer facilities, library privileges, and a stipend usually equivalent to half-salary, up to $50,000. Health, retirement, and social security benefits are not offered. (Faculty on leave of absence without sabbatical or outside grant support may elect to receive the maximum stipend to defray their expenses.) This is a full-time, in-residence fellowship, which runs from September 2009 through May 2010. The United States Naval Academy is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. This agency provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
Applicants should send a letter describing their interests in ethics in the areas listed above; a proposal for a research project to be undertaken during the fellowship; a curriculum vitae; and copies of relevant publications. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent directly to the fellowship program center director.
The deadline for the receipt of applications is February 1, 2009. The names of the recipients of Fellowships will be announced by the end of April 2009.
All application materials should be sent to:
Dr. George R. Lucas, Jr. Professor of Philosophy and
Director of Navy and National Programs
Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership
U.S. Naval Academy
112 Cooper Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5022
Fax: 410-293-6081
Email: grlucas@usna.edu
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