https:\/\/environment.uw.edu\/career-opportunities\/tenure-track-position-in-environmental-and-social-equity-and-justice\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nMount Holyoke College invites applications for a tenure-track position in environmental and social equity and justice to begin Fall 2022. The search\u00a0is open to candidates working in any discipline or area of environmental\u00a0and social equity and justice. We are particularly interested in candidates\u00a0with an emphasis on humanistic perspectives. Areas of specialty are open but could include: environmental art, history, or literature; ecocriticism;\u00a0ethics; religion and ecology; queer ecologies and ecofeminism;\u00a0post-colonial environmentalism and indigenous studies; climate or health\u00a0justice; just sustainabilities or futures; or other areas. The successful\u00a0candidate will have: a strong interest in cross-disciplinary teaching and\u00a0research; a demonstrated commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and\u00a0inclusion and experience mentoring students who are broadly diverse with\u00a0regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality,\u00a0sexual orientation, and religion; and a commitment to undergraduate,\u00a0liberal-arts education. The hired applicant will be expected to employ\u00a0interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches in teaching and in an active\u00a0research program that ideally involves undergraduates. Teaching\u00a0responsibilities will include participation in teaching introductory and\u00a0capstone courses as well as development and teaching of intermediate and\u00a0advanced courses in the field.<\/p>\n
A Ph.D. is required (we will consider A.B.D.\u00a0candidates also), and post-doctoral research, teaching, or mentoring\u00a0experience is helpful. Teaching load is 2\/2; salary is competitive.<\/p>\n
Although the position will initially be housed in the , it will soon be in a new Department of Earth,\u00a0Environment, and Sustainability (EES), and is supported in part by generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The EES curriculum will offer\u00a0students a foundation for understanding Earth\u2019s natural systems and their\u00a0interactions with political, economic, social, cultural, and historical factors from global to local scales. The new EES Department will result\u00a0from a planned merger of the Department of Environmental Studies with the\u00a0Department of Geology and Geography. The successful candidate will\u00a0participate in building this new interdisciplinary major and curriculum.<\/p>\n
Please submit here a letter of application, a C.V., and statements covering:<\/p>\n
(1) research interests<\/p>\n
(2) teaching philosophy<\/p>\n
(3) the mentoring of a\u00a0diverse student body<\/p>\n
The successful candidate should be able to\u00a0demonstrate excellence in teaching and mentoring students who are broadly diverse with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual\u00a0orientation, and religion. Review of applications will begin on Friday\u00a0October 1, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0and continue until the position is filled. For additional\u00a0questions, contact Tim Farnham, Chair of the search committee and of the\u00a0Department of Environmental Studies, at\u00a0tfarnham@mtholyoke.edu<\/strong>.<\/p>\nMount Holyoke is an undergraduate liberal arts college with 2,200 students\u00a0and 220 faculty. Over half the faculty are women; one-fourth are persons of\u00a0color. Mount Holyoke College is located about 90 miles west of Boston in\u00a0the Connecticut River valley, and is a member of the Five College\u00a0Consortium consisting of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith\u00a0Colleges and the University of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Mount Holyoke College is a women\u2019s college that is gender diverse. The\u00a0College is committed to providing equal access and opportunity in employment and education to all employees and students. In compliance with\u00a0state and federal law, Mount Holyoke College does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, genetic information, sex, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, ancestry, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected status under federal, state or local law. The College does not discriminate on the basis of gender in the recruitment and admission of students to its\u00a0graduate program.<\/p>\n
All offers of employment are contingent upon the finalist successfully passing a background (including criminal records) check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3815,"featured_media":34097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[4,50,28,33,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43371,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43370\/revisions\/43371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}