The School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability (SESES) invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Environmental Social Science. This is a full-time, benefit eligible, tenure-track appointment. We seek an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist who will contribute to existing strengths in environmental research, teaching and practice in SESES. We welcome applicants with interdisciplinary training and research experience in a variety of fields, including but not limited to the areas of environmental policy and governance, conservation biology, economics, geography, environmental studies and sciences, sociology, sustainable development and climate science. The successful candidate will work in coupled natural and human systems and at the interface between science and policy.
This position builds on university strengths in Environmental Sustainability. Northern Arizona University seeks to bring together scholars within SESES and across colleges (College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences; College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; College of Arts and Letters; and W. A. Franke College of Business) to foster interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and a range of expertise to secure large interdisciplinary sustainability focused grants. Scholars are sought to develop new collaborations that will enable interdisciplinary science-based, community-oriented scholarship and teaching on local to global sustainability challenges. Minimum qualifications include a PhD in a social science, or in an interdisciplinary environmental program with a social science emphasis conferred by Aug 14, 2017. See details at nau.edu/Human-Resources/Careers/Faculty-and-Administrator-Openings under Job ID 602887.
