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Part Time Adjunct Faculty: Environmental Social Sciences (Master in Environmental Studies Program)

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Olympia, WA - USA

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$ 3853 - 7959

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

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Job Summary
This is a parttime adjunct faculty position for the fall and winter quarters of the 202526 academic year. Evergreens Graduate Program on the Environment seeks an adjunct faculty colleague to help students understand the social dimensions of environmental issues. We anticipate that successful candidates will come from disciplines such as sociology geography anthropology economics public policy or interdisciplinary environmental social sciences. The ability to teach social science methodologies and perspectives to students with diverse backgrounds in both the natural and social sciences is more important than the specific area of expertise. The ideal candidate will have the ability to help students develop an empirically grounded and/or systemic analysis of historical causes current patterns and policy solutions to environmental problems. Expertise with tribal community responses to environmental issues would be especially helpful. The ideal candidate has the ability and passion to integrate the social and natural sciences through study and applications of realworld issues. A successful candidate must be able to: 1) teach foundational material and advanced topics within the environmental social sciences which might include areas such as environmental policy urban planning sustainable design/infrastructure sustainable development ecological/environmental economics common pool resource governance environmental health political ecology or social movements for the environment; 2) teach independently in 4credit elective courses for the MES program; 3) help students develop research skills in environmental social sciences; and 4) help students develop analytical and methodological tools employed in the environmental social sciences which might include research design survey design and analysis qualitative methods quantitative methods mixed methods and/or Geographical Information Systems. The position is an adjunct faculty member dedicated to graduate students with primary teaching responsibilities inperson in the evening.

Minimum Qualifications
PhD in Environmental Studies or a social science discipline such as geography sociology political science history environmental policy environmental law or a related discipline Undergraduate or graduate teaching experience in the environmental social sciences; Ability to teach research design qualitative and/or quantitative research methods; Ability to teach graduatelevel writing skills;

Preferred Qualifications
Graduate training in interdisciplinary research Experience working with marginalized and underrepresented populations;

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Part-Time

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