International Honors Program/SIT Study Abroad

IHP Cities in the 21st Century: People Planning and Politics

Reports to: Program Director IHP Cities in the 21st Century

Salary Range: $28000 $32000 (total pay for the semester salary commensurate with experience)

Anticipated Start Date: December 8 2025

Term of Employment: approximately 56 months

Apply by: May 2 2025

Base of Designation/Remote Eligible: Travel to New York City (USA) Argentina Spain and South Africa required. Conditional on Enrollment

TO APPLY: Please click on Apply above or visit to submit your application via the online system by uploading the following required items: letter of interest and CV (including the contact information of three academic references). Your letter of interest should address the questions listed further below.

OVERVIEW

School for International Training (SIT) seeks a Visiting Faculty member to join an interdisciplinary team of faculty and country coordinators leading IHPs Cities in the 21st Century: People Planning and Politics program in Spring 2026. Each semester term enrolls approximately 2032 students from leading U.S. colleges and universities to engage in interdisciplinary urban studies in comparative and global perspectives across urban locations in four different continents. The Visiting Faculty travels with students to each location for the full duration of the semester. Please note that the following itinerary reflects past semesters and tentative future semesters but itineraries are contingent on conditions in each country and program needs:

Spring 2026 (late January to midMay): New York City (USA) Argentina Spain and South Africa

IHP CITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: PEOPLE PLANNING AND POLITICS

Cities in the 21st Century is a comparative study abroad program that examines questions of social justice in different urban contexts across four different countries. It is an interdisciplinary semester which draws on urban political economy anthropology sociology politics development studies and planning. Its mission is to provide undergraduate students from leading U.S. colleges and universities with an intensive experiential learningbased exposure to the challenges of urbanization in different parts of the world. Students learn how to read the city through formal courses led by traveling faculty as well as through homestays with local families; guest lectures by incountry academics local politicians and policy makers; site visits and meetings with NGOs neighborhood organizations and community activists.

IHPs learning model is grounded in critical inquiry and analysis but attempts to bring those skills to bear on particular places and themes. It also helps students learn how to interact with a variety of local actors representing different and competing visions of the city and to situate claimsmaking within the context of unequal access to wealth resources infrastructure and political representation.

More information on IHP and our 21st Century Cities program (including more detailed itineraries and course descriptions) can be found at: politics/

RESPONSIBILITIES

We are seeking a visiting faculty member who will:

• Teach two courses:
  • Urban Research Methods and Fieldwork Ethics
  • Urban Politics and Development
  • See IHP Cities in the 21st Century: People Planning and Politics for details
• Facilitate student learning through processing of nonlecture program components and providing timely feedback on Regular participation in all country program activities including guest speakers site visits and other nonlecture components is expected.
• Work with the Provost & Dean of Faculty Associate Deans Program Director and Country Coordinators to ensure that any academic administrative and student affairs associated with the program are resolved.
• Take appropriate measures to protect the health and safety of students in partnership with SIT Student Affairs and local staff.
• Visiting Faculty are responsible for ensuring that all students traveling on the official group flights are checkedin and through immigration.
• Collect all receipts for all expenses incurred and complete expense reports in a timely manner according to World Learning financial policies and guidelines.
• Other duties as

REQUIREMENTS

Required Experience/Education:

• Terminal degree (PhD or equivalent; All But Dissertation considered) in political economy sociology geography political science or other social science field relevant to critical urban studies.
• Expertise in at least one critical urban issue and general knowledge of urbanization history and critical urban
• Experience teaching at the college level and a strong commitment to experiential learning including nondidactic methods that promote critical thinking and fieldbased research discussion and selfreflection.
• Experience living and working abroad ideally in at least one of the program countries listed above (preferred).
• Qualitative research experience in urban studies and/or professional experience in urban community development urban planning design or experience in/with urban social movements.

Required Behaviors

• Must be able to meet the physical emotional maturity and mental health demands as well as possess the personal qualities patience adaptability collegiality crosscultural competence and organization needed to be part of an intensive teamoriented study abroad program that covers four countries in one semester.
• The ability and desire to support and communicate with students throughout the study abroad experience both in and outside of the classroom.

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LETTER OF INTEREST:

Traveling with collegeaged students for an entire semester guiding their learning and field research in cities and rural environments as well as conducting classroom discussions and smallgroup seminars presents unique challenges and demands unique qualities of faculty members. Please consider this point carefully in your letter of interest paying special attention to how you would handle the conceptual pedagogical intercultural and interpersonal demands of this program. What in your academic background and work experience has prepared you to step into this role What specifically interests you about this visiting faculty opportunity as opposed to a more traditional academic position

BENEFITS:

Travel insurance provided outside of home base and subject to plan terms.

THE WORLD LEARNING INC. FAMILY

For more than 90 years World Learning Inc has been a thriving global organization made up of The Experiment in International Living the nations most experienced provider of international education through exchanges for high school students; School for International Training offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through SIT Study Abroad and internationally focused masters degrees through SIT Graduate Institute; and World Learning a global development and exchange nonprofit organization.

SIT

School for International Training (SIT) was founded in the early 1960s as a training center for the first Peace Corps volunteers. For nearly 60 years SIT has prepared students to be effective changemakers and global citizens through experiential education focused on the worlds most critical global issues. SIT Study Abroad offers accredited summer and semester undergraduate programs in Africa Asia and the Pacific Europe Latin America and the Middle East as well as comparative programs on multiple continents. SIT Graduate Institute offers global and hybrid certificates masters and doctoral degrees.

World Learning

World Learning has worked to create a more sustainable peaceful and just world. World Learnings education development and exchange programs help people find their voices connect with their communities strengthen the institutions that form the backbone of a democratic society and build relationships across cultures. With World Learnings support these emerging leaders tackle critical global issues like poverty conflict and inequality.

The Experiment in International Living

The Experiment in International Living is the nations most experienced provider of international education through exchanges for high school students. For more than 90 years The Experiment has empowered young people to step off the beaten path experience the world as a classroom immerse themselves fully in another culture and build the knowledge and skills needed to confront critical global issues.

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