{"id":44017,"date":"2021-11-03T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=44017"},"modified":"2021-11-03T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:54:19","slug":"job-assistant-professor-environmental-policy-environmental-justice-binghamton-university-binghamton-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/job-assistant-professor-environmental-policy-environmental-justice-binghamton-university-binghamton-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Assistant Professor – Environmental Policy \/ Environmental Justice, Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About Binghamton University:<\/b><\/p>\n

Binghamton University is a world-class institution that unites more than 130 broadly interdisciplinary educational programs with some of the most vibrant research in the nation. Our unique character – shaped by outstanding academics, facilities and community life – promotes extraordinary student success.<\/p>\n

Binghamton merges rigorous academics, distinguished faculty and state-of-the-art facilities to engage and challenge its 18,000 students. The high-achieving Binghamton student body also represents a great diversity of life experiences, from first-generation college-goers to international students. Beyond their talent, these classmates share a desire to shape the future through technology, insight, intellectual exploration and community service.<\/p>\n

Job Description:<\/b><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Environmental Studies Program<\/a>\u00a0at Binghamton University, State University of New York invites\u00a0applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor beginning in Fall\u00a02022.<\/p>\n

We seek an environmental justice scholar who conducts innovative research within a specific policy area.\u00a0Our new colleague will examine the economic, legal, societal, or race-related drivers of environmental\u00a0injustice within topics, such as, but not limited to, energy, air, food systems, urbanization, or water \/ land\u00a0resource policy. Our new colleague will study the social and\/or political\u00a0science of their area of policy\u00a0concentration, be well-versed in the physical or systems science underpinning the topic, and able to convey\u00a0an interdisciplinary understanding to students.\u00a0Such a melding of human and natural systems is at the crux of\u00a0the Environmental Studies Program and a recruitment focus for faculty members. We seek applicants who\u00a0prioritize\u00a0engaged, collaborative, or community-based research with Indigenous, African-American, Latinx\u00a0or other minoritized populations.<\/p>\n

Teaching will include lower-level and upper-level environmental policy courses emphasizing local, state, and\u00a0federal policy in the United States and incorporating environmental justice concepts.\u00a0In addition, the faculty\u00a0member will teach an upper-level specialty course that would contribute to our new sustainability systems\u00a0undergraduate concentration and the\u00a0Sustainable\u00a0Communities master’s degree<\/a>. Other courses might include\u00a0one of our capstone classes or a research methods course. This person would serve as a mentor to master’s\u00a0degree students working on a variety of projects.<\/p>\n

Binghamton University emphasizes research across departments through its trans-disciplinary areas of\u00a0expertise (TAEs) on campus. These\u00a0TAEs<\/a>\u00a0bring together and support university\u00a0researchers interested in\u00a0conducting interdisciplinary projects in sustainable communities, smart energy, data science, health sciences,\u00a0material and the visual world, and citizen,\u00a0rights and belonging.<\/p>\n

Requirements:<\/b><\/p>\n

Candidates must have a Ph.D. in environmental studies, political science, public policy,\u00a0public administration, urban planning, geography, or a related field at the time of appointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additional Information:<\/b><\/p>\n

The State University of New York is an Equal Opportunity\/Affirmative Action Employer. It is the policy of Binghamton University to provide for and promote equal opportunity employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, religion, disability, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military service member status, marital status, domestic violence victim status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or arrest and\/or criminal conviction record unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification or other exception.<\/p>\n

As required by title IX and its implementing regulations, Binghamton University does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the educational programs and activities which it operates. This requirement extends to employment and admission. Inquiries about sex discrimination may be directed to the University Title IX Coordinator or directly to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Contact information for the Title IX Coordinator and OCR, as well as the University’s complete Non-Discrimination Notice may be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at\u00a0info@goer.ny.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Binghamton University is a tobacco-free campus effective August 1, 2017.<\/p>\n

Application Instructions:<\/b><\/p>\n

Interested candidates should submit the following.<\/p>\n