Carleton College, Environmental Studies

Job Posting Title Program Director and Associate/Full Professor of Environmental Studies

Sustainability and environmental justice are core values of Carleton College. Our efforts to live fully into these values will mean that enhancing the Environmental Studies Program will be central to our next strategic plan. In this light, the Environmental Studies Program at Carleton College invites applications for a program director and tenured professor in Environmental Justice to begin September 1, 2024. We are particularly interested in scholars who utilize interdisciplinary research methodologies that combine humanistic, social science, and scientific approaches in their work and teaching. Preference will be given to candidates who can teach courses focused on the United States with interests that also reach beyond the US in comparative, thematic, or global contexts. We welcome applications from all disciplines that contribute to the field of environmental justice. We are a community of scholars committed to the goals of excellence in undergraduate education, research, collegiality, and in building a more socially just, diverse, inclusive, and equitable society in all of our endeavors. We seek candidates who share these values and commitments.  We are developing our faculty to better reflect the diversity of our student body and American society. Women and members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will join a vibrant college community and a growing Environmental Studies Program. We seek an innovative leader and scholar who can serve as the next program director and who is willing to collaborate with program faculty to create and carry out a unified vision for our program. Teaching responsibilities will include an environmental justice survey course, more specialized courses and upper-level seminars in the field of environmental justice, a course on US environmental policy, and the supervision of senior thesis projects. We also anticipate that the successful candidate will be part of a rotation of faculty members that teach our research methods and senior seminar courses, which are both required for all Environmental Studies majors.  For further information about our Environmental Studies Program, please visit our website at https://www.carleton.edu/environmental-studies/.

Carleton is a highly selective liberal arts college with a student body of approximately 2,000.  Located in the historic and thriving town of Northfield, Minnesota, we are forty-five miles south of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, whose greater metro area has a diverse population of three million people and a rich variety of cultural resources. Our academic year consists of three ten-week terms.

To apply for this position, candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement addressing the candidate’s scholarly agenda, and a statement addressing the candidate’s teaching philosophy (including specific attention to addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom). Short-listed candidates will be asked for additional materials including the names and contact information of three references. These materials should be submitted at go.carleton.edu/carletonjobs. Review of application materials will begin on October 15, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled.

Carleton does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, veteran status, actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status with regard to public assistance, disability, or age in providing employment or access to its educational facilities and activities.