The Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment at The New School in New York City invites applicants for a one-semester fixed-term position as Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy & Sustainability Management for the semester of spring 2025, beginning on January 13, 2025 and ending on June 30, 2025.
Milano's Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management (EPSM) program features an interdisciplinary curriculum with a critical approach to sustainability and environmental issues. The EPSM program is deeply rooted in a commitment to environmental justice, intersectional diversity and systemic change that is attentive to history, diverse knowledges, and politics and offers students the ability to engage with a broad range of contemporary environmental and sustainability topics. The comprehensive 42-credit MS program offers students the ability to select a concentration in either policy or management, as well as take advantage of international field studies opportunities through the International Affairs program. The program focuses on contemporary environmental and sustainability topics and offers students experiential, practice-based learning opportunities both inside and outside the classroom. EPSM has strong curricular and programmatic links to the Tishman Environment and Design Center, a university-wide hub for environmental research and practice around environmental justice and the design of sustainability transformations. The EPSM curriculum reflects The New School’s tradition of bridging critical theory and transformative practice in progressive service to the world. We are educating students towards meaningful careers that contribute to a more just and sustainable world. You can find more information about The New School and about our program here: Environmental Policy & Sustainability Management MS program..
The New School, a private university in New York City’s Greenwich Village, serves undergraduate and graduate students across a range of fields with a commitment to bringing practices in design and social research to studying issues of our time and challenging students to become engaged citizens dedicated to solving problems and contributing to the public good.
The New School is strongly committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and particularly seeks applications from members of underrepresented groups, as well as candidates who share this commitment.
RESPONSIBILITIES
We seek a scholar with expertise in fields such as critical political ecology, critical political economy, critical development studies, global environmental politics and policy, environmental social movements and civil society organizing, environmental and climate justice, or Earth system, climate and sustainability governance. Applicants can also bring a focus on special topics; for example: biodiversity, climate change, water, mining, forests, waste, migration, land defense, environmental resistance, food systems, environmental economics, international law, borders, securitization, militarization, health, corporate power and financialization, or other topics. Diverse, cross-disciplinary and/or global approaches are particularly welcome. Ideal candidates will center critical and subaltern approaches; for example: intersectional, grassroots, frontline, counterhegemonic, radical, non-Western, non-orthodox, gendered, queer, Black, Indigenous, global South, anti-racist, decolonial, degrowth, posthumanist, postdevelopment, postextractivist, or eco-Marxist approaches. A capacity to teach mixed methodologies and/or field-related practice is a plus.
The teaching course load is the equivalent of five graduate/undergraduate courses per year, plus advising students and helping supervising capstone research projects. An active participatory role in the program’s community of critical learning, innovative research and public engagement is expected.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Doctoral degree or equivalent terminal degree in a relevant field. ABD doctoral candidates with a clear timeline for completion in fall 2024 are welcome to apply.
Academic accomplishments commensurate with the rank of appointment.
Demonstrated successful experience in teaching, ideally with a trajectory in critical approaches.
Demonstrated trajectory of work that decenters dominant knowledge systems while foregrounding historically marginalized and underrepresented knowledges and perspectives.
Commitment to collaborating across the University and with external partners.
Demonstrated trajectory of work committed to diversity, equity and justice.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented backgrounds, including but not limited to Black, Indigenous, People of Color, women, and gender diverse identifying applicants.
WORK MODALITY
On-Campus Position: Faculty are expected to work on-campus due to the nature of the work in accordance with University policies as set forth in the Full-Time Faculty Handbook. #LI-ONSITE
SALARY
$47,500 per semester
TO APPLY
To ensure consideration, completed applications must be received by October 15, however review of applications will start immediately.
Interested candidates should submit:
a cover letter that includes: statement of teaching, research and service to discipline and community
a curriculum vitae
writing sample
names and contact information of three references
teaching evaluations (and/or any other evidence of teaching excellence)
Applicants may be contacted at the discretion of the search committee for additional materials.
For information on the University benefits package including health and retirement plans, please visit http://www.newschool.edu/human-resources/benefits/.
We look forward to receiving your application!