Environmental Planning Assistant Professor Position

Description

Arizona State University has developed a new model for the American research university, creating an institution committed to excellence, access, and impact. The School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (SGSUP) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for an environmental planning scholar excited by the prospect of working in this innovative environment. SGSUP is seeking to hire an individual at the Assistant Professor (tenure-track) level, with a preferred start date of August 2023. We encourage applications from individuals with expertise on any topic within environmental planning, we are particularly interested in applicants with a focus on climate change planning, natural hazards planning, indigenous planning, and environmental justice.

The successful candidate will teach in our undergraduate, masters, and doctoral planning programs in a variety of modalities (in-person, hybrid, and online) and maintain an active agenda of externally-funded and peer-reviewed research. Possible courses that the candidate could teach include Sustainable Cities and Environmental Planning. In addition to developing a vigorous research program, the successful candidate will also be expected to mentor at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, participate in service to the school, university and profession, and build productive relationships with faculty both within and beyond the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.

SGSUP is proudly transdisciplinary. The mission of SGSUP is to advance geospatial knowledge for a complex world, emphasizing education, research, and applied solutions to urban and environmental problems.

●      We are a distinctive community of social and physical scientists whose blended expertise is producing breakthroughs in urban planning and geography.

●      We are committed to the social and environmental well-being of communities, places, and people.

●      We are world leaders in spatial science and urban climatology.

●      We are emerging leaders in social equity, transportation, housing, urban systems analysis, human-environmental systems, sustainability, resilience, and earth surface processes.

With 40+ full-time faculty including four members of the National Academy of Sciences, over 100 graduate students and nearly 1,000 undergraduate majors, SGSUP offers degrees in planning, geography, and GIS as well as graduate certificates in social science research methods, transportation and GIS. In planning, we offer a Bachelor of Science in Planning (both online and in-person), a Master in Urban and Environmental Planning, and a PhD. Our Master of Urban and Environmental Planning program is accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board and is ranked in the top 25 nationally (Planetizen 2017).

SGSUP is part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU. The College values our cultural and intellectual diversity, and continually strives to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment. ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves. The University’s location within the large and fast-growing Phoenix region provides a rich context for applied research and community engagement around issues of housing growth, (sub)urban development patterns, an expanding rail system, livability, health, social equity, energy and water use, and climate change.

To learn more about SGSUP and Arizona State University please visit https://sgsup.asu.edu/ and https://newamericanuniversity.asu.edu/, respectively.