ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF AGRICULTURE, SOCIETY AND FOOD SECURITY
University of California, Berkeley
The Division of Society and Environment in the Department of
Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of
California at Berkeley invites applications for a tenure track
appointment at the level of assistant professor in the area of
Agriculture, Society and Food Security, to begin July 1, 2012. The
successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in the social sciences or the
humanities, or in environmental or agro-food studies, an excellent
research record or evidence of potential, and a strong commitment to
teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. S/he will be expected
to develop a nationally and internationally recognized research
program on agriculture, society and food security, and the social
organization and governance of food systems at or across different
scales (local, national, transnational, global).
The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to teaching
core courses at the undergraduate level, and will also have the
opportunity to develop graduate and undergraduate courses in his/her
area of specialization. The department seeks candidates whose
research, teaching or service has prepared them to contribute to our
commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education.
Applicants will submit the following documents on-line: letter of
application (including names of the 3 referees who will be submitting
letters of support), current curriculum vitae, statement of research
interests, statement of teaching interests and experience, and copies
of no more than 3 (article or chapter length) samples of relevant
written work. Each document should be submitted as a separate pdf
file. Filenames should include the applicant's last and first names.
Applications are to be uploaded at
<http://ecnr.berkeley.edu:80/sReg.php?i=200>http://ecnr.berkeley.edu:80/sReg.php?i=200
.
Letters of recommendation are to be submitted by the application
deadline to <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] by the
referee. Refer potential reviewers to the UC Berkeley Statement of
Confidentiality found at
<http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html>http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html.
The closing date for applications is December 1, 2011.
More information about this position may be found at :
<http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/department-services/job-listing/>http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/department-services/job-listing/
.
Specific queries may be directed to
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected].
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative
Action Employer.
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Eben North Broadbent
Ph.D. Candidate, DOE GCEP Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences
Department of Global Ecology
Stanford University, 260 Panama Street
Stanford, CA 94305; Cell: 650.204.1051
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]; skype: ebennb
<file:///C:/Users/DAVIDI~1/AppData/Local/Temp/www.stanford.edu/~eben>www.stanford.edu/~eben
Fellow in Sustainability Science
Harvard Kennedy School
<http://www.harvard.edu>www.harvard.edu (http://goo.gl/NFDLX )
