College of Arts and Sciences
Department: History
Position: Environmental
History
Rank: Assistant or Associate Professor
Description:
The
Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State
University invites applications for the position of Assistant (tenure-eligible)
or Associate Professor (tenured) in Environmental History and Sustainability. Candidates with specializations in any
geographic region or chronological era are welcome to apply. We are especially interested in candidates
who explore questions of the sustainability and resilience of human
communities, including histories of human consumption, pollution and waste,
natural resource use, food and agriculture, water use, energy, urban
environmental spaces, soil, forests, environmental (in)justice, and histories
of the coevolution of materials, technologies, human behaviors, and
environmental impacts. The successful candidate will participate in the History
Department’s thematic constellation “Environment, Health, Technology, and
Science,” as well as in other thematic, geographical, and chronological
communities of historians in the department.
Qualifications:
Applicants
must hold the Ph.D. at time of appointment and must demonstrate an actual or
potential record of sustained publication commensurate with the expectations at
a research university. They must also have a demonstrated ability for
excellence in teaching undergraduate and graduate students. Preferred qualifications include program
experience, university teaching experience, and experience mentoring members of
underrepresented groups.
About Columbus:
The Ohio State University campus is located in
Columbus, the capital city of Ohio. Columbus is the center of a rapidly growing
and diverse metropolitan area with a population of over 1.5 million. The area
offers a wide range of affordable housing, many cultural and recreational
opportunities, excellent schools, and a strong economy based on government as
well as service, transportation and technology industries (see http://liveworkplaycolumbus.com/).
Columbus has consistently been rated as one of the
Top U.S. cities for quality of life, and was selected as one of the Top 10
cities for African Americans to live, work, and play by Black Enterprise
magazine. Additional information about the Columbus area is available at http://www.columbus.org.
Application
Instructions:
Review
of applications will begin on October 20, 2015 and continue until the position
is filled.
Complete applications will include a letter of
application, curriculum vitae, an article-length writing sample, and three
letters of recommendation. Please apply
online through Academic Jobs Online at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/6174. Inquiries may be directed to Nick Breyfogle, breyfogle.1@osu.edu.
The Ohio State University is committed to
establishing a culturally and intellectually diverse environment, encouraging
all members of our learning community to reach their full potential. We
are responsive to dual-career families and strongly promote work-life balance
to support our community members through a suite of institutionalized
policies. We are an NSF Advance Institution and a member of the Ohio/Western Pennsylvania/West
Virginia Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC).
The Ohio State
University is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, national origin, disability status,
or protected veteran status.
