The Department of Sociology and Communication at Texas A&M University-San Antonio (A&M-SA) seeks applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Sociology at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2025. Primary teaching responsibility will consist of 6 undergraduate courses per academic year (3/3 load), with one course release during the first year and […]
Apply via original listing The Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto (St. George Campus) invites applications for a full-time tenure stream appointment in Planning. The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. The selected candidate will be expected […]
Assistant Professor, Housing/Transportation and Applied Methods Tenure-Track Department of Urban and Environmental Policy Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA Position Summary The Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College invites applications for Assistant Professor in the field(s) of housing and/or transportation related to race, place, inequality, and urban policy. We are interested in candidates […]
Description The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University invites applications from candidates for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level beginning in the Fall of 2025 in Environment, Societies, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The ideal candidate should have a strong interest in research and teaching related […]
The Fletcher School at Tufts University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor of Climate and Energy Policy beginning July 1, 2025. The search committee will begin reviewing applications on October 15 and will continue reviewing until the position is filled. The ideal candidate will conduct policy-related research at the intersection of […]
Unit: Sociology Position Type: Faculty Position Title: Assistant Professor of Sociology Location: Nashville, TN Open Date: Sep 2, 2024 Position Description: The Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of health/medical and/or environmental sociology to begin fall semester 2025. The successful candidate will study contemporary topics […]
The Department of History and Geography in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Arlington invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Geography and GIS. Review of applications will begin October 7, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled. Details are listed below, and questions about the position […]
The Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York is recruiting for an Assistant Professor of Sustainability to start in August 2025. We are particularly looking for candidates whose research is collaborative, complements but does not duplicate expertise of existing core faculty, and applies systems-based approaches to sustainability challenges in […]
PhD Assistantships Examining Biodiversity, Ecosystem Service, Cultural, and Economic Benefits and Tradeoffs Across Forest Adaptation Approaches at the University of Vermont Project: Relatively little is known about best adaptation strategies for addressing climate change impacts on forests in ways that balance key ecosystem services like carbon storage with other desired outcomes, including sustaining biodiversity and […]
Dr. Gabe Schwartzman, at the Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, is recruiting a PhD student as part of an NSF-funded project on the political ecology of carbon forest management in Central Appalachia. This is a 3-year fully funded Graduate Research Assistantship, with a fourth year of funding as a Teaching […]
Apply via original listing Position overview Salary range: The salary range for this position is $104,300 -$124,000. The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and/or step at appointment. See Professor and Professor of Teaching Series – Academic Year Regular Scales. “Off-scale salaries” and other components of pay, i.e., a salary that […]
The Department of Geography, Environment and Society (GES) at the University of Minnesota invites applications for a President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of Just Environments. Applications are sought from scholars whose research engages the nexus of society, environment, and justice in any geographical region, including the global South, and which expands, diversifies, or complements […]
Brown University’s Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track position in socio-cultural anthropology at the rank of assistant professor. We seek a scholar whose research and teaching expertise center on population studies, broadly construed. This could include (but is not limited to) migration, reproduction, kinship/family dynamics, health/medical, development, or the environment. The successful candidate […]
Zack Tayor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political science, urban geography, planning studies, and urban sociology. He is a fellow at the Institute on Municipal and […]
Zack Tayor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political science, urban geography, planning studies, and urban sociology. He is a fellow at the Institute on Municipal and […]
Geographies of Refugee Resettlement and Post-industrial Urban Renewal in Rust Belt Cities Refugees are active agents of urban change. According to the United Nations, 60 percent of the world’s refugees are in cities and as such, cities of today are uniquely positioned to seek solutions that address refugee concerns alongside interrelated urban social justice and […]
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Newfoundland and Tasmania, Australia, have been described as ‘mirror islands’ with striking linkages. Site of one of the field excursions during the authors’ 12-day exchange to Tasmania, Australia. (Author Provided, Brady Reid) In an era of “global […]
Grete Gansauer is an economic geographer and interdisciplinary public policy researcher focused on regional development, infrastructure, and the local state in peripheral regions and ‘left behind’ places. She is a US Department of Agriculture Predoctoral Fellow and PhD Candidate in Geography in the Resources and Communities Research Group at Montana State University. Her dissertation examines […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
It was great to see six sessions at RSA 2023 in Ljubljana as part of a theme on Climate Change, Energy & Environmental Sustainability. Several other sessions were focused on sustainability as well. Many of the papers presented technical analyses of supporting blue or green economy initiatives. While these are much needed, we also need […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: Racial Disparities of the Paycheck Protection Program: Focusing on Structural Differences in Banking Infrastructure This project examines the distributional outcomes of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was implemented by the U.S. federal government to preserve jobs in small businesses in response to the 2020 coronavirus […]
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) provides a range of research funding opportunities to suit different career stages and we are pleased to share with you details on forthcoming application deadlines. We encourage non-members to apply for a grant and join the RSA at the same time. Deadlines for the 2023 RSA Awards and Funding are as […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. During the COVID-19 pandemic, select regions around the globe formed ‘travel/quarantine bubbles’ with imposed hard borders such as the ‘Trans-Tasman Bubble’ involving New Zealand and Australia and the […]