The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University invites applications for the next Director of the Urban Studies Institute (USI). Qualified candidates should have a record of publications and sponsored research appropriate for tenure and appointment at the rank of Full Professor at Georgia State University. The successful candidate will bring intellectual […]
https://jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psc/sprdhr_er/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_SCHJOB_FL&Action=U Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Interactions The Department of Geography in the College of Social Sciences & Public Policy at Florida State University seeks a 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor in critical Human Geography. The successful candidate will have demonstrated commitment to sustaining a research agenda in human-environment interactions, with interests that bridge disciplinary […]
The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning has a two-year fellowship opportunity, named after Professor Emeritus Robert Fishman. The fellowship is intended for early-career scholars and practitioners who conduct interdisciplinary work on urbanism. Potential fields of study include architecture, urban design, urban planning, urban history, urban policy, urban affairs, racial and […]
The Department of Geography (https://geography.wisc.edu/) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Geography specializing in innovative, place-based research on the combined social and ecological dimensions of green energy transitions and natural climate solutions. See the link for more details: https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/professor-of-geography-madison-wisconsin-united-states?fbclid=IwY2xjawGeL4pleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHV-sssM6X-DByxKj5aSQ9vwxqcopHaJHqyDuBOCQ54ZJO6Kr8oBgWtkZPg_aem_CuKFvkfX-u1utdQA8efVSA
Assistant/Associate Professor in Urban Social Sciences and Planning Position Summary: The New Jersey School of Architecture (NJSOA) of the J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) cordially invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured Assistant/Associate Professor. We seek a dynamic and future-focused […]
The Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin on July 1, 2025. Cities and regions around the world are exploring the potential of data-driven urban analytics and new digital technologies to transform […]
Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sustainability Governance For posting and link to apply please see https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/237107 Tenure-track, academic year, teaching/research position in the Department of Human Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers the State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey with a start date of September 1, 2025. We are looking for an […]
The School of the Environment and the Centre for Caribbean Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Environment and Climate in Caribbean Studies. This will be a joint appointment between the School of the Environment (51%) and the Centre for Caribbean Studies […]
https://hr.umn.edu/Jobs/Find-Job Job Opening Number: 365030 The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP). The faculty member will join a vibrant community of interdisciplinary scholars at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, support graduate […]
A PhD opportunity is now available in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida. This project focuses on property ownership and market consolidation in US housing markets. It is a fully funded 4-year position. Dr. Renee Tapp will supervise the student. The PhD student is expected to develop an independent […]
PhD Position – Human Dimensions of Climate Smart Agricultural Practices The Social Sustainability of Agriculture and Food Systems Lab at the University of Georgia is recruiting a PhD student to conduct research on the complexities of adoption of “climate-smart” agricultural practices in the United States. Advised by Dr. Jennifer Jo Thompson, the selected student will carry out mixed-methods […]
PhD Assistantships Examining Biodiversity, Ecosystem Service, Cultural, and Economic Benefits and Tradeoffs Across Forest Adaptation Approaches at the University of Vermont Project: Relatively little is known about best adaptation strategies for addressing climate change impacts on forests in ways that balance key ecosystem services like carbon storage with other desired outcomes, including sustaining biodiversity and […]
Dr. Gabe Schwartzman, at the Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, is recruiting a PhD student as part of an NSF-funded project on the political ecology of carbon forest management in Central Appalachia. This is a 3-year fully funded Graduate Research Assistantship, with a fourth year of funding as a Teaching […]
Geographies of Refugee Resettlement and Post-industrial Urban Renewal in Rust Belt Cities Refugees are active agents of urban change. According to the United Nations, 60 percent of the world’s refugees are in cities and as such, cities of today are uniquely positioned to seek solutions that address refugee concerns alongside interrelated urban social justice and […]
Grete Gansauer is an economic geographer and interdisciplinary public policy researcher focused on regional development, infrastructure, and the local state in peripheral regions and ‘left behind’ places. She is a US Department of Agriculture Predoctoral Fellow and PhD Candidate in Geography in the Resources and Communities Research Group at Montana State University. Her dissertation examines […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
It was great to see six sessions at RSA 2023 in Ljubljana as part of a theme on Climate Change, Energy & Environmental Sustainability. Several other sessions were focused on sustainability as well. Many of the papers presented technical analyses of supporting blue or green economy initiatives. While these are much needed, we also need […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: Racial Disparities of the Paycheck Protection Program: Focusing on Structural Differences in Banking Infrastructure This project examines the distributional outcomes of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was implemented by the U.S. federal government to preserve jobs in small businesses in response to the 2020 coronavirus […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. If the American West could be defined by one characteristic, it would be aridity. Water quantity and quality deficiencies perennially frame development controversies across the West– particularly in […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. Various studies have acknowledged and highlighted the significant contribution of an integrated system to adopt and execute climate action plans. This article will attempt to unveil the influence […]
Joan Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University. She focuses on urban climate governance and the connections between urban sustainability and economic development and innovation. Her third book, Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development (Oxford Univ. Press, 2010), examines how cities are creating economic development opportunities in several green […]
Whether we call it cohesion, levelling up, lagging regions, or place-based policy; regional inequality has been a long-term persistent problem. I started to become really interested in how places adapt, and what we would find if we begin from the starting point of adaptation – particularly using the Deleuzian Assemblage and the complex adaptive […]
The RSA Ambassador to USA is Michael Glass, Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. As the United States ambassador for the RSA, it’s my pleasure to assist anyone who wants to address the unruly, diverse, and essential set of regionalisms that exist across the country. I look forward to working […]