Environmental Social Science (Tenure Track Faculty, MES)
Environmental Social Science (Tenure Track Faculty, MES)
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$ 53966 - 111485
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Posted on :
29-08-2025
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This is a full-time regular* faculty position starting in the fall quarter of the 2026-27 academic year. Evergreens Graduate Program on the Environment seeks a 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 political ecology public policy or interdisciplinary environmental studies. We are especially interested in candidates with expertise in the economic social cultural health or policy dimensions of environmental studies. The ability to teach social science methodologies (qualitative and/or quantitative) 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 tribal community responses to environmental issues and indigenous ecological knowledge systems would be especially helpful. The Evergreen Master of Environmental Studies program organizes its curriculum through interdisciplinary courses with faculty teams collaborating across disciplines to design and teach an integrated graduate-level curriculum. The ideal candidate has the ability and passion to integrate the study of social and natural sciences through study and application of real-world 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 ecological/environmental economics environmental policy urban planning sustainable design/infrastructure sustainable development common pool resource governance environmental health political ecology environmental justice or social movements for the environment; 2) teach in interdisciplinary teams with natural scientists at the graduate level; 3) help students develop quantitative research skills in environmental social sciences; 4) help students develop other 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; and 5) mentor thesis students in diverse research projects in the environmental social sciences. The position is a regular continuing faculty member dedicated to graduate students with primary teaching responsibilities in-person in the evening and substantial responsibilities for advising thesis research. Faculty in this position are invited to rotate regularly into the undergraduate daytime curriculum to contribute to the Environmental Studies Path. *regular is equivalent to tenure track
Minimum Qualifications
Ph.D. in Social Science Environmental Studies or related field; Undergraduate or graduate teaching experience (as the faculty of record) in the environmental social sciences; Ability to teach research design quantitative and/or qualitative research methods; Ability to teach graduate-level writing skills; Ability to mentor graduate students in thesis research.
Preferred Qualifications
Graduate training in interdisciplinary research; Experience or demonstrated interest in interdisciplinary team-teaching; Research or teaching experience in multiple areas of desired expertise; Experience in collaborating with tribal communities.
This is a full-time regular* faculty position starting in the fall quarter of the 2026-27 academic year. Evergreens Graduate Program on the Environment seeks a 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 political ecology public policy or interdisciplinary environmental studies. We are especially interested in candidates with expertise in the economic social cultural health or policy dimensions of environmental studies. The ability to teach social science methodologies (qualitative and/or quantitative) 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 tribal community responses to environmental issues and indigenous ecological knowledge systems would be especially helpful. The Evergreen Master of Environmental Studies program organizes its curriculum through interdisciplinary courses with faculty teams collaborating across disciplines to design and teach an integrated graduate-level curriculum. The ideal candidate has the ability and passion to integrate the study of social and natural sciences through study and application of real-world 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 ecological/environmental economics environmental policy urban planning sustainable design/infrastructure sustainable development common pool resource governance environmental health political ecology environmental justice or social movements for the environment; 2) teach in interdisciplinary teams with natural scientists at the graduate level; 3) help students develop quantitative research skills in environmental social sciences; 4) help students develop other 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; and 5) mentor thesis students in diverse research projects in the environmental social sciences. The position is a regular continuing faculty member dedicated to graduate students with primary teaching responsibilities in-person in the evening and substantial responsibilities for advising thesis research. Faculty in this position are invited to rotate regularly into the undergraduate daytime curriculum to contribute to the Environmental Studies Path. *regular is equivalent to tenure track
Minimum Qualifications
Ph.D. in Social Science Environmental Studies or related field; Undergraduate or graduate teaching experience (as the faculty of record) in the environmental social sciences; Ability to teach research design quantitative and/or qualitative research methods; Ability to teach graduate-level writing skills; Ability to mentor graduate students in thesis research.
Preferred Qualifications
Graduate training in interdisciplinary research; Experience or demonstrated interest in interdisciplinary team-teaching; Research or teaching experience in multiple areas of desired expertise; Experience in collaborating with tribal communities.
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