Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Visiting Research Scholar Location: Princeton, New Jersey Salary Range or Pay Grade: Assistant Professor: $60,000/semester, Associate Professor: $75,000/semester, Full Professor: $90,000/semester Description Property and Poverty. What is property - a cornerstone of personal freedom, a glue that keeps communities together, or a tool for oppression? Is it an institution rooted in the nature of society or an invention of the state? Does property require poverty as its corollary? The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University seeks applications from scholars researching the history of property and dispossession, wealth and poverty, and the practices of owning and disowning things, people, bodies, and ideas. The Davis Center invites applications from historians studying the intellectual, legal, religious, cultural, and economic histories of property and poverty, and from social historians who explore the world of...