Assistant or Associate Professor, The Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM) at the University of California, Berkeley

The Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM) at
the University of California, Berkeley is recruiting for a tenure-track or
tenured academic year position at the Assistant or Associate Professor
level in the area of Race, Culture, and Environment. The successful
applicant's expected start date is July 1, 2016. Specifically, we seek
applicants whose research and teaching address the relationships between
racialized social and political differentiation and access to or control of
the environment or resources. We are particularly interested in a social
scientist focused on issues of race, culture, class, and/or social
inequities (including gender difference) as these relate to environmental
change, management, and access to natural, agrarian, and urban resources
and land. We seek applicants who are excited about contributing to UC
Berkeley’s land grant mission, ESPM’s commitment to multi-disciplinary
problem solving, and working with scholars across other social sciences and
the humanities, as well as those based in the natural or physical sciences.
Research should focus on either the US or international contexts, but
teaching should address empirical and theoretical applications for both,
treating the US as one of many global sites of differentiation.

The successful applicant will be expected to develop a nationally
recognized research program on some dimension of race, culture, society,
and environmental relations, including, but not limited to, the
entanglements of poverty, class, and race relations as they influence,
produce, and intertwine with the key environmental challenges we face
(e.g., climate change, food security, land and natural resource access).
The successful candidate will teach an undergraduate core course on Race,
Culture, and Environment, and a graduate course in his/her area of
specialization. S/he will also share in teaching other required
interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate courses.

Applicants will have or be working towards a doctoral degree or equivalent
in the social sciences or humanities, or from an appropriate
interdisciplinary program, such as environmental, natural resource, ethnic,
race and gender, indigenous, legal, or urban studies. At a minimum,
applicants must have completed all Ph.D. or equivalent degree requirements
except the dissertation at the time of application. Candidates must have a
Ph.D. or equivalent degree by the appointment start date. We are interested
in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in
higher education through their teaching, research, and service. Women and
minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

Applications will be accepted through December 22, 2015.