Assistant Professor - Anthropology (Environment and Climate Change)

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts, at the University of Texas at Arlington, invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Tenure-track position. We are seeking an Anthropologist - broadly defined - specializing in the environment and climate change, with a preferred focus on human adaptation, sustainability, and societal change. The successful candidate’s areas of research expertise may include, but are not limited to human impacts on environments, human adaptation to environmental change, human ecology, paleoenvironment, and environmental justice. We are especially interested in candidates who bring an interdisciplinary lens as well as expertise in analytical tools such as GIS or ABM to the study of topics such as climate change impacts, risks and resilience in the past and/or contemporary times, and mitigation and adaptive responses to climate-related impacts such as sea level change, collapse of coastal resources, water scarcity, and intensification of extreme weather events. The new hire will be able to demonstrate how their work broadens the scope and bridges the scholarship of current faculty of the UTA Anthropology Program, helps develop research opportunities for students, and contributes to the research-intensive priorities of the university. We expect candidates to seek external funding to pursue a research agenda built around these loci as well as to provide research and training opportunities to our students (including first-generation college students with various cultural backgrounds). We also welcome candidates who can help prepare our students for positions in the Cultural Resource Management (CRM) industry, particularly through instruction in GIS.

Required qualifications: Applicants must have a PhD completed by time of appointment (September 1, 2025).

Preferred qualifications: A good record of peer-review publication, evidence of leadership in research, and experience teaching undergraduate courses that complement the curriculum offered by the Anthropology Program at UTA. Experience with and ability to provide instruction in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are desired. A PhD in hand by spring 2024 is preferred.

To apply applicants should go to https://uta.peopleadmin.com/postings/29573 and submit the following materials: CV, cover letter, contact information for 3 references. Include unofficial transcript only if degree is not in the same discipline as the one in which candidate will teach.

Review of applications will begin November 1, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled. Questions may be addressed to Naomi Cleghorn at cleghorn@uta.edu. For more information about UTA, please visit: http://www.uta.edu/uta.