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Bowdoin College – Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Company NameBowdoin College
Position TitleAssistant Professor of Mathematics
Company Information
Founded in 1794, Bowdoin has maintained its commitment to the liberal arts for well over 200 years. Bowdoin’s reputation as a preeminent liberal arts college rests on the excellence of its faculty, students, and staff; intimate size; strong sense of community; and connections to the people, history, and natural beauty of Maine. Bowdoin’s campus is situated in a beautiful natural setting. Located in Brunswick, Maine, a town of approximately 20,000, the College is a short drive from the Maine coast, twenty-five miles from Portland and 120 miles from Boston. Bowdoin College complies with applicable provisions of federal and state laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment, admission, or access to its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry and national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, marital status, place of birth, genetic predisposition, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities on the basis of disability, or any other legally protected statuses. For further information about the College and our department, please visit our website: https://www.bowdoin.edu.
Duties and Responsibilities
Bowdoin College’s Department of Mathematics invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2027. We seek a candidate specializing in probability and stochastic processes, with a preference for those whose scholarship or teaching connects to the mathematics of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The teaching load is two courses per semester. Bowdoin is particularly interested in candidates dedicated to undergraduate teaching and with a promise of long-term successful research.
Bowdoin’s Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity aims to critically examine, thoughtfully utilize, and ethically guide AI’s trajectory. A $50 million gift by Reed Hastings funds ten new faculty positions across disciplines; supports faculty in AI-related teaching, research, and creative work; sponsors workshops, symposia, and student research; and prepares the next generation of leaders to engage responsibly with the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence.
Position Qualifications
A Ph.D. in mathematics, applied mathematics, or statistics is expected by the date of the appointment.
Salary Range$122,000-128,000
Benefits
Bowdoin College offers opportunities for professional development, a fully-funded, year-long pre-tenure sabbatical leave (after three years of teaching and successful reappointment), and regular, generously funded, post-tenure sabbaticals. Support for teaching, grant submission, computing software, and community partnerships in courses is available. The College also offers robust programming and resources for establishing and enhancing mentoring networks.
Position or Company Websitebowdoin.edu
Application Instructions
Bowdoin College accepts only electronic submissions through MathJobs (https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/28670). A complete application includes:
a cover letter of up to two pages describing your experience and your short- and long-term goals in teaching and research. In your letter, please give specific examples of how your scholarship or teaching has engaged meaningfully with the mathematics underlying machine learning or AI – for example, stochastic optimization and sampling algorithms, high dimensional probability, diffusion models, statistical learning theory or teaching courses on the mathematical foundations of ML;
a curriculum vitae;
a research statement;
a teaching statement describing your pedagogical experience and your approach to engaging and supporting students from a broad range of backgrounds;
three letters of reference: two addressing research and one addressing teaching, submitted directly by the letter writers through MathJobs.