Geographic Information Systems Assistant Teaching Professor Environment and Sustainability Studies Program

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Job Description Summary

Job Description:

Wake Forest Universitys Environment and Sustainability Studies Program seeks an engaged creative and committed teacherscholar to become an Assistant Teaching Professor of Geographic Information Systems. We welcome candidates with a Ph.D. in geography environmental studies anthropology environmental engineering conservation biology environmental sciences natural resource management forestry or other fields in which the candidate has pursued research and/or teaching related to environmental justiceequity communities or sustainable development. This is a permanent fulltime position with an initial and renewable twoyear appointment. The Assistant Teaching Professor will teach three courses per semester (a 3:3 load) or the equivalent (e.g. 2 lab courses per semester). Compelling applicants will have a commitment to interdisciplinary experiential and placebased learning and a record of teaching and mentoring students from diverse backgrounds. We welcome applicants who are familiar with participatory GIS public participation GIS or community GIS and have demonstrated experience teaching socioenvironmental GIS using global positioning systems and drone technologies teaching with commercial and free GIS software and/or public scholarship with digital storytelling. We seek a scholar who shares our dedication to cultivating a positive inclusive culture of belonging among faculty staff and students including international and firstgeneration students and those who identify as members of minoritized communities

The successful candidate will join an innovative and interdisciplinary group of scholars from the natural sciences humanities and social sciences who address the environment and sustainability. The mission of the Environment and Sustainability Studies Program is to prepare students to create just and sustainable futures which we enact by teaching students how to think across disciplinary boundaries to address environmental challenges and to act within their communities for environmental and climate justice. More information about the program can be found at . Our program leverages the applied and experiential learning of liberal arts education and strengthens it through our vibrant professional schools. We ready students to be bold and ethical leaders who respond to environmental issues using socioenvironmental synthesis for evidencebased creative and principled action.

We recognize that making positive environmental change means creating and sustaining partnerships and collaborations and we are looking for candidates who strengthen and broaden our commitments to just environmental futures by innovating spaces where students learn both the theory and practice of collaborative and inclusive environmental problemsolving. We seek candidates with a vision for experiential learning and knowledge coproduction in the campus WinstonSalem and/or global communities. In our Piedmont home this includes local and regional organizations and government agencies as well as the campus gardens forests maker space and global education programs. We are eager to recruit candidates who develop strategic communication as part of their scholarship supporting effective and equitable engagement with policy practitioner and local communities.

Additional Job Description

Wake Forest University welcomes and encourages diversity and inclusivity and seeks applicants with demonstrated success in working with diverse populations. Wake Forest University is an AA/EO employer and values an inclusive and diverse learning community and campus climate. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Wake Forest University is a private coeducational institution dedicated to academic excellence in liberal arts graduate and professional in WinstonSalem NC (The City of Arts and Innovation) the University is ranked among the top fifty national universities by U.S. News and World Report.The University has a deep institutional commitment to public service and engagement with the world as indicated by the motto Pro Humanitate (for humanity) which encourages students to develop the qualities of human character needed to serve humanity. The Environment and Sustainability Studies Program faculty are comprised of dynamic teacherscholars who apply biology art engineering education chemistry English earth sciences economics physics communication geography history law philosophy business religion policy and anthropology to humanenvironment relationships and are committed to transformative environmental change. The Environment and Sustainability Studies Program which offers both majors and minors welcomes applications from all who would bring additional dimensions to the programs research teaching and community commitments. The program is part of a robust university ecosystem that supports engagement with environmental issues including the Office of Sustainability Office of Community and Civic Engagement the Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability the Humanities Institute and the Sustainability Graduate Programs.

For quick facts about the University see. For more on the Environment and Sustainability Studies Program see provide a cover letter addressed to the search committee a curriculum vitae with names and contact information of three references and a teaching statement. In your application materials please speak to how you foster inclusion and belonging in your pedagogy and research. Candidates should submit their materials online as a single PDF file at Address inquiries about the application process and document submission to . For additional information about the position please contact Dr. Julie Velsquez Runk at .

The position is scheduled to begin on July 1 2025. To guarantee full consideration applications should be submitted by October 31 2024.

In order to provide a safe and productive learning and living community Wake Forest University conducts background investigations and drug screens for all final staff candidates being considered for employment.

Wake Forest seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce and encourages qualified candidates across all group demographics to apply.

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