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positions open and opportunitiesTo submit info on positions related to environmental history, contact david.spatz@aseh.org. Announcements should not exceed a paragraph in length and should include the deadline and a link to more information. Assistant/Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture (Environmental History) - Harvard University Graduate School of Design A junior faculty position is available for highly qualified individuals to offer graduate-level instruction in environmental history. Housed in the Department of Landscape Architecture, this is planned as a full-time tenure track position, although the committee may also consider a more senior appointment. Candidates should be creative emerging researchers who have demonstrated an innovative historical approach to narrating and theorizing familiar and/or previously overlooked objects, subjects, topics, and themes within or beyond the traditional bounds of art-, architectural-, urban-, design- or landscape-history. The candidate will be expected to make substantial scholarly contributions to the field while at the same time continuing to define it with respect to past and future possibilities and practices within landscape architecture. Applications will be reviewed beginning September 1, 2021. For more information and to apply, please visit the Harvard Academic Positions website: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/10381 Non-U.S. Environmental History - University of Iowa The History Department at The University of Iowa invites applications for a position in non-U.S. environmental history at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. The department seeks candidates with research interests in environmental history focused on regions outside the United States. The successful candidate must have a record of excellence in research and scholarship in environmental history, be prepared to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in both environmental history and their regional specialization, and be prepared to engage the programmatic missions of the department. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in History or related field in hand by August 15, 2022. Screening will begin September 15, 2021 and continue until an offer is made. For a full description, see https://jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/74204#. Assistant, Associate or Full Clinical Professor in Science, Technology and Society (STS) - NYU Shanghai NYU Shanghai is currently inviting applications for a position at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Clinical Professor in Science, Technology and Society (STS). We invite applications from candidates in any field of the humanities with broad teaching interests in STS. This is a Full-Time Continuing Contract Faculty (FTCC) position. Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. by the time of appointment in September 2022. Candidates will have a teaching load of 2/2, with classes serving the STS component of the core curriculum and the Humanities degree at NYU Shanghai. Typical appointments are on 3-year terms. While we seek applications from candidates with an active research profile, successful candidates will be hired on the basis of teaching and service. Applications will be accepted until 1 November 2021. For more information and to apply, follow this link: apply.interfolio.com/94937. If you have any questions, please email the NYU Shanghai Office of Faculty Recruitment shanghai.faculty.recruitment@nyu.edu.20th Century United States Religious History - The Mississippi State University The Mississippi State Department of History, home to the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South and the editorial headquarters of Environmental History invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in 20th Century United States Religious History, beginning August 16, 2022. Teaching responsibilities are two courses per semester. Offerings include a turn in the US History survey and undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of expertise. Demonstrated ability to contribute to the department’s vibrant intellectual life is especially favored.A Ph.D. in history with a specialty in 20th Century United States Religion at the time of appointment is required. Evidence of successful teaching and publications are preferred. All applicants must apply online at http://explore.msujobs.msstate.edu and attach a cover letter, current curriculum vitae, and research and teaching statements. Please include e-mail address to facilitate contact. Applications will be scrutinized after November 20. Contact aimarcus@history.msstate.edu with any questions. Assistant Professor of Environmental and Social Equity and Justice - Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College invites applications for a tenure-track position in environmental and social equity and justice to begin Fall 2022. The search is open to candidates working in any discipline or area of environmental and social equity and justice. We are particularly interested in candidates with an emphasis on humanistic perspectives. Areas of specialty are open but could include: environmental art, history, or literature; ecocriticism; ethics; religion and ecology; queer ecologies and ecofeminism; post-colonial environmentalism and indigenous studies; climate or health justice; just sustainabilities or futures; or other areas. The successful candidate will have: a strong interest in cross-disciplinary teaching and research; a demonstrated commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion and experience mentoring students who are broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion; and a commitment to undergraduate, liberal-arts education. The hired applicant will be expected to employ interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches in teaching and in an active research program that ideally involves undergraduates. Teaching responsibilities will include participation in teaching introductory and capstone courses as well as development and teaching of intermediate and advanced courses in the field. A Ph.D. is required (we will consider A.B.D. candidates also), and post-doctoral research, teaching, or mentoring experience is helpful. Teaching load is 2/2; salary is competitive. Please submit a letter of application, a C.V., and statements covering (1) research interests, (2) teaching philosophy, (3) the mentoring of a diverse student body. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate excellence in teaching and mentoring students who are broadly diverse with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion. Review of applications will begin on Friday October 1, 2021 and continue until the position is filled. Link to the application site: Two Research Assistants (3 years), University of Vienna – Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World” is a 3-year project, directed by Dr. Tatiana Konrad at the University of Vienna and supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The project explores how, through the virus, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the ways we understand air, giving it agency as a visible, existent, and vital substance. These new meanings of air and their crucial contribution to the environmental humanities are the primary concerns of this project. The project employs perspectives from environmental and medical humanities, literary and cultural studies, race studies, and history. Two research assistants (research foci: environmental humanities and medical humanities) to be employed for 3 years at the University of Vienna (Austria) as pre- docs (PhD students). The application deadline is November 5, 2021. The project starts on February 1, 2022. More information on the application process can be found here: Environmental Humanities: Medical Humanities: |