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Assistant/Associate Professor Economics, Fall 2025

University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
Full-time

The Department of Economics at the University of Tennessee seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor i n the field of macroeconomics with appointment to begin August 1, 2025.

The ideal candidate will teach in the PhD level macroeconomic sequence. All subfields of macroeconomics as well as related fields including but not limited to macrofinance, international economics, financial economics, labor economics, or environmental economics will be considered.

Responsibilities include high quality research, graduate and undergraduate instruction, and a commitment to fostering the goals of the department, college, and university.

A PhD in economics or a related field is required at the time of appointment, or expected to be completed by the date of hire.

The Department of Economics is one of seven departments within the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee.

The department faculty have expertise in a wide range of fields and place a high value on diversity and collegiality. The department has a vibrant .

program, and strong ties to the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research and the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs.

The faculty publish high quality research and many are editors, past editors, or editorial board members of leading journals.

For Assistant or Associate positions the responsibilities include high quality research, graduate and undergraduate instruction, and a commitment to fostering the goals of the department, college, and university.

A PhD in economics or a related field is required at the time of appointment, or expected to be completed by the date of hire.

A candidate for Assistant Professor who is just finishing their terminal degrees will be evaluated mostly on the quality of their job-market paper.

We seek identifying elements of innovation in their job-market papers. Senior applicants will mostly be evaluated based on their solid record of publications in top academic journals as well as on their teaching performance.

A candidate for Associate Professor must be a tenured Associate Professor at a peer or aspirant institution, or have similar rank at a non-academic institution such as the Federal Reserve Board.

Such a candidate will be an well-established scholar with multiple publications in highly regarded academic journals.

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