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 (49%). The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. The successful candidate will be named the New College Professor in Caribbean Studies for a three-year term, which is renewable following a favourable review.
We seek candidates conducting interdisciplinary research on the broader nexus of Caribbean ecological crises and ecological futures and the intersecting areas of food, water, health, and biodiversity in the Caribbean region. Crucial to the field is a commitment to understanding not only how Caribbean peoples resist ecocide historically, intellectually, politically, and in practice, but also, how Caribbean ecological epistemologies offer new ways to enact just ecological futures. Candidates’ research areas and expertise may include (but are not limited to): climate migration, environmental racism, environmental activism, and intersectional approaches to gender justice; conservation traditions and management including Indigenous approaches to environmental governance and biodiversity conservation; just sustainabilities as they relate to food, water, health, pollution and community survival; climate impacts and adaptation, and the interaction of climate change with related risks including pandemics, natural disasters, resource conflict, and extractivism; environmental themes in Caribbean food, language, culture and literature. Candidates’ research must be grounded within the Caribbean context. Experience and engagement in community action on climate mitigation or adaptation, local or regional conservation, environmental policy, or resource management in the Caribbean region will be an asset.
Applicants must have earned a PhD degree with a focus addressing critical Caribbean environmental issues. They must also demonstrate a record of excellence in research and teaching, and experience in research supervision. We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and enhance our existing strengths in both departments and who can take on a leadership role to enhance our international profile. Candidates will have an established international reputation and will be expected to sustain and lead innovative and independent research at the highest international level and to maintain an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded research program.