Skip to main content

This job has expired

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Employer
Denison University
Location
Granville, OH

View more

Job Details

Position Type:

Faculty

Tenure or non-tenure-track:

Tenure

Position Title:

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Job Summary and Requirements :

Basic FunctionThe Denison Environmental Studies Program invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level, beginning August 2022. We seek a colleague with a strong interdisciplinary academic background in environmental studies, a capacity for working across disciplinary boundaries, a commitment to supporting student learning in the liberal arts, and a specialty that complements the scholarly interests and teaching expertise of our current program faculty. Our Program prioritizes hands-on, experiential modes of teaching and learning, with strong community engagement. Through a broad array of liberal arts tools, we prepare students to be creative problem-solvers. Please see http://denison.edu/academics/environmental-studies for more information. Candidates in all environmental specialties are welcome to apply; we are particularly interested in scholars who focus outside of the United States, in areas such as environmental justice, sustainable development, law, design, policy, GIS, entrepreneurship, behavior, and environmental education.

Denison University is an increasingly diverse, highly selective, residential liberal arts college enrolling approximately 2300 students from across the nation and around the world. Our college is committed to attracting and supporting an academically and culturally diverse faculty. We put a strong emphasis on building supportive environments so that every student has the opportunity to succeed.

To achieve our mission as a liberal arts college, we continually strive to attract and hire candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences and identities. Denison fosters a campus community that recognizes the value of all persons regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender expression and identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or socio-economic background. For additional information and resources about diversity at Denison, please see our Diversity Guide (https://denison.edu/forms/diversity-guide) . Denison University is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

Essential Job FunctionsThe successful candidate will be capable of teaching all courses in the core of our curriculum: ENVS 100 Integrated Environmental Studies; ENVS 200 Environmental Analysis; ENVS 301 Environmental Practicum; and ENVS 401 Environmental Senior Project (see course descriptions at http://denison.edu/academics/environmental-studies) and advanced courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. The teaching load (typically 5 courses per year) will include sections of core courses and advanced courses to meet the needs of the Program. The successful candidate will also be an active scholar who has demonstrated engagement in environmental sustainability initiatives with the broader community, and whose work prioritizes innovation and social change.

Minimum QualificationsCandidates are required to have by August, 2022 a Ph.D. in an appropriate discipline (ABD will be considered as Instructor until Ph.D. is attained). The successful candidate will: be an outstanding teacher/scholar who can teach effectively at all levels of our curriculum; be an active and engaging scholar; demonstrate a strong commitment to liberal arts education; and demonstrate the capacity to participate in a community-based interdisciplinary program.
Preferred QualificationsPrevious teaching experience, scholarly and teaching focus outside the United States, in areas such as environmental justice, sustainable development, law, design, policy, GIS, entrepreneurship, behavior, and environmental education. Demonstrated community engagement in environmental sustainability initiatives is of importance to the Program.

Applicants must submit their application materials online at https://employment.denison.edu/postings/3329. Applications received by October 15, 2021, will receive full consideration.

Denison University is an academically rigorous liberal arts college with an increasingly diverse campus community. It offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package. Denison is located in the village of Granville, 30 minutes from Columbus, Ohio, the state capital, which hosts a wide range of cultural and artistic opportunities. Granville also offers an excellent public school system and easy access to outdoor activities.

Department:

Environmental Studies

Posting Number:

F 121300182

Full or Part Time:

Full Time

FTE:

1.0

Contact(s):

Abram W Kaplan

Contact Phone/Extension:

740-587-6736

Contact Email:

kaplan@denison.edu

Open Date:

09/07/2021

Close Date:

10/15/2021

Open Until Filled:

Yes

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Please provide a cover letter, current CV, research statement, teaching statement (including perspectives on inclusion and equity), research statement, and both grad and undergrad transcripts. We will solicit names of references at a later stage of the search process. Please direct any questions to Abram Kaplan, search chair, at kaplan@denison.edu.

Denison University Background Check Statement:

The final candidate will undergo a background check as a condition of offer of employment.

Denison University EEO Statement :

To achieve our mission as a liberal arts college, we continually strive to attract and hire candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences and identities. Denison fosters a campus community that recognizes the value of all persons regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender expression and identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or socio-economic background. For additional information and resources about diversity at Denison, please see our Diversity Guide (https://denison.edu/forms/diversity-guide). Denison University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Organization

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>As one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, Denison offers an authentic education in the fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Founded in 1831, Denison is one of the earliest colleges to be established in the old “Northwest Territory,” west of the Allegheny Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Denison is located in Granville, Ohio; 27 miles east of Columbus, the state capital.<img alt="denison_university1.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university1.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p>Innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in the pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of independent thinking. And because Denison is a residential college, students are deeply engaged as citizens of the campus community. They learn from one another in a rigorous academic setting, but also in rich social, cultural and political environments.</p> <p>As a residential undergraduate liberal arts college, Denison is among those places that have been called “distinctively American” in their contribution to higher education worldwide. In fact, it is one of a select number of institutions that today defines the type.</p> <p>Confident in the distinction of its graduates and advantaged by unusual resources, Denison has pointedly resisted the tendency in higher education to add layers of graduate degrees, professional schools, and service functions beyond the scope of baccalaureate education of the highest order. Entering its 177th year, Denison has maintained a fully residential campus based upon the well-tested premise that learning flourishes in community.</p> <p>Denison selectively admits successful, confident, and motivated students who seek to take advantage of highly participatory learning within classroom, laboratory, and studio and who expect to learn and grow through their investment in the challenges and opportunities of college life.<br /> The college attracts matriculants from across the country and more than three dozen nations. Denison engages students with outstanding professors in small classes that encourage men and women to take a high degree of personal responsibility for learning. Students pursue a major field of study selected from 39 areas offered by 28 disciplinary departments and interdisciplinary programs in the divisions of Natural Science, Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Arts as well as complete a sequence of General Education and a personalized curriculum of electives from across the college.</p> <p><img alt="denison_university2.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university2.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: left;" typeof="foaf:Image" />A Denison education is not just for a living but for a life. Denison graduates are educated to be curious, resourceful, and reflective. They are expected to begin a life of learning at Denison, not complete it. They are well prepared for the rapidly changing world of the 21st century.</p> <p>Nothing defines a Denison education more than the mutually enriching relationships that develop between students and faculty. The heart of the college is a full-time faculty of almost 200. These men and women, who hold the most advanced degrees in their fields, are selected on the basis of pedagogical and scholarly ability and are encouraged to be innovative teachers whose continuing growth in their discipline through active scholarship allows them to be among the best at their craft. They look forward to the challenge and stimulation of their students even as they seek to draw the best efforts from them. Many Denison students come to regard professors as mentors, who frequently oversee students' independent scholarly projects.</p> <p>Denison’s faculty is committed to undergraduate education. As teacher-scholar-advisers, their principal responsibility is effective teaching informed by the best scholarship. Faculty members place a priority on working closely with students, interactive learning, and partnerships with students in original research. Denison’s low student/faculty ratio allows for close supervision of independent research and collaborative work in small groups and classes.</p> <p><img alt="denison_university3.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university3.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p>At Denison, men and women learn and grow in community, and the residential character of the campus is more than a convenience but a way of engaging the full student body in a shared enterprise. The college actively seeks academically superior students who bring diverse talents, interests, backgrounds, and experiences, believing that out of the classroom as well as within learning takes place by sharing, questioning, and growing together. Denison students have unusual opportunities to participate in the arts, in athletics and recreation, in service to others beyond the campus, in student organizational life, and in campus governance.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalized job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert