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Dartmouth E. John Rosenwald, Jr. ’52 TU’53 Postdoctoral Fellows Program in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College invites applications for the 2025-26 E. John Rosenwald, Jr. ’52 TU’53 Fellows Program in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security. We welcome applications from historians, political scientists, and other scholars […]

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Tenure-track, Assistant Professor Position in Sustainable Food Systems The School of Sustainability (SOS) within the College of Global Futures (CGF) at Arizona State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in Sustainable Food Systems, expected to begin August 2025. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to curriculum development; deliver instruction […]

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PhD Position – Human Dimensions of Climate Smart Agricultural Practices   The Social Sustainability of Agriculture and Food Systems Lab at the University of Georgia is recruiting a PhD student to conduct research on the complexities of adoption of “climate-smart” agricultural practices in the United States. Advised by Dr. Jennifer Jo Thompson, the selected student will carry out mixed-methods […]

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School of Urban Studies University of Washington Tacoma Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Planning   Position Overview The University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Planning in the School of Urban Studies (SUS). This is a full-time (100% FTE) position with a 9-month service period […]

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Assistant Professor of Environment & Sustainability (climate social science) The Environment & Sustainability Program at William & Mary, a public university of the Commonwealth of Virginia, seeks applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level. The successful candidate will have a joint appointment in the Environment & Sustainability Program and a department within […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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.    If the American West could be defined by one characteristic, it would be aridity. Water quantity and quality deficiencies perennially frame development controversies across the West– particularly in […]

Joan Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University. She focuses on urban climate governance and the connections between urban sustainability and economic development and innovation. Her third book, Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development (Oxford Univ. Press, 2010), examines how cities are creating economic development opportunities in several green […]

Whether we call it cohesion, levelling up, lagging regions, or place-based policy; regional inequality has been a long-term persistent problem.   I started to become really interested in how places adapt, and what we would find if we begin from the starting point of adaptation – particularly using the Deleuzian Assemblage and the complex adaptive […]

The RSA Ambassador to USA is Michael Glass, Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. As the United States ambassador for the RSA, it’s my pleasure to assist anyone who wants to address the unruly, diverse, and essential set of regionalisms that exist across the country. I look forward to working […]

Jessie P.H. Poon is Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, New York. She is currently an editor of Environment and Planning A. She was the North American editor of Papers in Regional Science from 2002 to 2006. She has published over 100 papers on multinational firms’ locational strategies, foreign direct investment, trade, and […]

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Open to all and free to attend, this webinar series aims to bring experts in the field of regional studies, science and policy to you. The webinar can be watched live but will also available on demand. The webinars will run live once a month and feature researcher and policymaker experts. They include time for […]

Jennifer Clark is Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School of Architecture in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She specializes in urban and regional economic development planning. She is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Regional Studies and a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) […]

Mia Bennett is an assistant professor in the Geography Department at the University of Washington. As a political geographer with geospatial skills, through fieldwork and remote sensing, she researches transportation infrastructure and natural resource development in northern frontiers, namely the Arctic, Russian Far East, and along the more remote corridors of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. […]

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