Position Details
Position Information
| Recruitment/Posting Title | Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Interactions |
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| Department | SAS – Geography |
| Salary | Commensurate With Experience |
| Posting Summary | The Department of Geography at Rutgers University invites applicants for a human geography, tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2025. We seek a candidate whose teaching and research interests focus on human-environment interactions, and environmental change within global, international, and East Asian contexts. Broad topical areas of interest include environmental politics and governance, approaches to biodiversity and climate change, food and energy systems, water security, and urban environmental change. We welcome applications from researchers that combine qualitative and quantitative methods, and that integrate geographic information systems or other emerging geographical research methods into critical and empirical investigations. The candidate will be expected to teach introductory as well as advanced courses in environmental, political, or urban geography that foreground the relationship between human and environmental systems, and which will contribute to our Geography, Environmental Studies, and International and Global Studies curricula. We will give preference to a candidate who can help diversify our faculty or draw a more diverse student body to our discipline through the substance of their research and teaching. Interest in innovative pedagogies, civic engagement and activism, or community outreach would be an added benefit. Rutgers University offers a strong, dynamic, and diverse intellectual community with multiple interdisciplinary centers connected to the study of environmental issues in international and East Asian contexts, including the Global Asias Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies, Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute, and Rutgers Global. Rutgers is located in New Jersey, a demographically diverse state. Our student body reflects this racial and ethnic diversity. Rutgers Geography, founded in 1949, has fifteen core and seventeen additional graduate faculty. The department is built on a tradition of critical spatial analysis across the discipline’s subfields and draws from decades of collaboration with area studies and other interdisciplinary units on campus. Additional information about the Department of Geography and Rutgers University can be found at geography.rutgers.edu. |
| Position Status | Full Time |
| Posting Number | 24FA1119 |
| Posting Open Date | 10/24/2024 |
| Posting Close Date | 11/01/2024 |
Qualifications
| Minimum Education and Experience | Required qualifications: A PhD in Geography or a related field such as Environmental Studies, Environmental History, East Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Urban Studies, or Urban Planning. Desired qualifications: teaching experience in a college or university setting in Geography or a related discipline; demonstrated capacity to secure external research funding; experience advising graduate students or preparedness to begin such responsibilities. |
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Posting Details
| Special Instructions to Applicants | Application materials include: a cover letter, CV, a combined statement of research, teaching, and contributions to diversity, two writing samples, and a list of three references (reference letters will be requested of candidates who are selected for further consideration). For additional information about the application process, please contact Kelly Bernstein (kellbern@rutgers.edu), Sr. Department Administrator. For additional information about the position please contact Dr. Kevin St. Martin (kevin.st.martin@rutgers.edu), Search Committee Chair. Applications are only accepted via the Rutgers job posting portal. Review of applications will begin on November 4th, 2024. |
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| Quick Link to Posting | https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/238380 |
| Campus | Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
| Home Location Campus | Livingston (RU-New Brunswick) |
| City | Piscataway |
| State | NJ |
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Pre-employment Screenings
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Immunization Requirements
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Applicant Documents
Required Documents
- Cover Letter/Letter of Application
- Writing Sample 1
- Writing Sample 2
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research Statement
- List of Professional References (contact Info)
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