The Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Duke University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in Environmental Justice. We seek a broadly-trained social scientist whose scholarship is empirically grounded and theoretically informed. We are especially interested in scholars who focus on: the structural, institutional and historical roots of environmental injustices; the processes and mechanisms through which environmental injustices are perpetuated; or policy interventions and other solutions that promote environmental justice. Competitive applicants will have training and expertise in a relevant social science discipline or interdisciplinary field (including but not limited to: sociology, demography, geography, anthropology, political science, economics, environmental studies, Black studies, LatinX studies, Queer studies, decolonial studies, political ecology, or Indigenous studies), and they will have a demonstrated record of scholarship that engages with and applies theories and dimensions of environmental justice. The successful applicant will be expected to establish an externally funded research program that is widely recognized for both intellectual rigor and societal impacts, including but not limited to community-engaged or policy-engaged scholarship.
The position will be based on Duke University’s main campus in Durham, North Carolina with opportunities to collaborate closely with the School’s Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina. The position will provide abundant opportunities to engage with environmental justice scholars and practitioners within the Nicholas School of the Environment and across Duke University (e.g., Superfund Research Center, Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Divinity School, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, Global Health Institute, Center for International and Global Studies, Human Rights Center, Kenan Institute for Ethics). Moreover, Duke’s home, North Carolina, has deep ties to environmental justice social movements that are active locally, nationally, and globally. The position complements Duke’s university-wide Climate Commitment, which has environmental justice as a priority, and recent faculty searches by the Nicholas School in climate policy, spatial ecology, and marine/coastal climate change.
The successful applicant will contribute enthusiastically to teaching and advising and to appropriate service activities in the University and the applicant’s professional field. Teaching will consist of 2.5 courses per year, to be assigned by the Division chair, and will serve the Nicholas School’s professional Master of Environmental Management (MEM) and Master of Forestry (MF) degree programs as well as Ph.D. and undergraduate programs. Teaching and mentoring will contribute especially to the School’s new MEM concentration in Community Engagement and Environmental Justice. Participation in doctoral student training will be through the Division’s Environment Program and the Duke University Program in Environmental Policy.
Application deadline: 2023/10/05
See link for details: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24884