Assistant/Associate Professor Sustainability and Climate, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

College of Fine and Applied Arts

Assistant/Associate Professor Sustainability and Climate, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for faculty positions in sustainability and climate, with primary responsibilities in the college's Department of Urban and Regional Planning. We seek new colleagues who conduct innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative research on critical dimensions of sustainability and climate, particularly racial equity, community resilience and environmental justice. We welcome applicants from a wide range of fields focused on climate and sustainability as they intersect core planning concerns of land use, environment, transportation, community development, economic development, and design, both in the U.S. and internationally.

DURP currently has 14 full-time faculty members in addition to its adjunct and affiliate faculty, 99 students in the BAUSP program, 58 students in the MUP program, and 16 Ph.D. students. Its curricular offerings span sustainable design and development, community development for social justice, local and regional economic development, and environment and land use, and transportation concentrations, as well as a cross cutting transnational planning specialization. The university (www.illinois.edu) and departmental (www.urban.illinois.edu) web sites offer additional information.

While these positions will be based in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, there is potential for cross-appointments in the college's Department of Landscape Architecture or School of Architecture, or in the university's excellent area and ethnic studies departments across African American Studies, American Indian Studies, Latina/Latino Studies, and more. Accordingly, we invite applications from a wide range of fields, especially urban planning, urban studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, urban ecology, and indigenous, ethnic and racial studies. We are open to all methodological approaches, ranging from data science and analytics to ethnography to community-engaged research and decolonial approaches.

In 2013, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning celebrated one hundred years of planning education at Illinois and has an international reputation for training professional planners and developing future scholars. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a land grant R1 institution. DURP is a unit of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, which provides opportunities for collaboration with scholars, practitioners, and artists, and which also provides opportunities for outreach and engagement via the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and the Krannert Art Museum.

The campus and the Department provide ample support for faculty to conduct interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching. Members of the DURP faculty are involved in a broad array of ongoing research and public engagement activities throughout Illinois, the U.S., and internationally. In addition to DURP's home in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, the position offers many potential connections in the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign's 16 major academic units (illinois.edu/academics/academics.html), as well as connections to other major programs including the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (www.iprh.illinois.edu), and University of Illinois Extension (extension.illinois.edu).

Faculty members in DURP are expected to produce a strong published record of scholarship and to maintain an active research agenda in their field. The Department places a high value on professional applications that lead to innovations in planning practice and dissemination of those innovations through scholarly publication and other means of communication. DURP faculty contribute courses to the Department's four degree programs: Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and Planning (BAUSP), Master of Urban Planning (MUP), Master of Science in Sustainable Urban Management (MSSUM), and Ph.D. in Regional Planning. They also support masters and doctoral student research assistants.

Successful candidates are expected to perform the full range of designated faculty responsibilities including teaching, research, outreach/public service, and university service. A Ph.D. in planning or related fields is required. Candidates for assistant professor must possess or be near completion of a PhD or candidates whose PhD may be delayed but will complete all the PhD requirements within the first appointment year may be appointed at the rank of Instructor. After the PhD requirement is met, the appointment will be changed to Assistant Professor. The position is a full-time nine-month tenure-track faculty appointment that begins 16 August 2023. Salary is commensurate with experience.

All applications must be submitted online at illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/1143?c=illinois. For full consideration, please submit a cover letter of up to three pages detailing your accomplishments and plans for research and teaching and your commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity; a CV; and contact information for three references. Applications should be submitted by November 3^rd, 2022. Letters of reference will be requested after the initial screening. Although early applications are appreciated and interviews may be conducted before the closing date, hiring decisions will not be made until after the closing date.

DURP is strongly committed to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and to increasing the presence of underrepresented groups in the planning profession and the academy. Therefore, we especially encourage the application of Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), people with disabilities, women, people with the full range of gender and sexual identities to apply.

The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. www.diversity.illinois.edu

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Applicants with disabilities are encouraged to apply and may request a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (2008) to complete the application and/or interview process. Requests may be submitted through the reasonable accommodations portal, or by contacting the Accessibility & Accommodations Division of the Office for Access and Equity at 217-333-0885, or by emailing accessibility@illinois.edu.

Requisition ID: 1012199
Job Category: Faculty
Apply at: jobs.illinois.edu