First consideration will be given to applications received by October 1, 2024, but applications will be considered until the position has been filled. Interested applicants may upload their application materials to: http://apply.interfolio.com/150983. The following application materials are required: a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, one article-length writing sample, the names of three references, and a statement describing how your work contributes to the Ford School's and University of Michigan's strategic commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. (https://fordschool.umich.edu/dei)
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan invites applications from well-qualified individuals for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position focused on teaching, research, and public engagement related to the relationships between environmental factors in physical, built, and/or social environments and environmental racism, social inequity, and public policy. Applicants should have expertise focused on structural and other forms of racism-including racism in public policies-that create environmental racism and associated social inequities. Applicants should also be interested in how the tools of community engagement or public policy reform can be used to create racially just and equitable physical/built/social environments or technologies that contribute to reducing social inequities including in public health, housing, transportation, food access, and work/labor.
Applications are welcome from a range of fields, including but not limited to environment and sustainability science, public health science, sociology, anthropology, geography, urban planning, science and technology studies, history, public policy, law, political science, and economics. Applicant interest and expertise can be in environmental justice issues in the United States and/or any other country or region of the world.
The position will have a university year appointment. The Ford School is committed to attracting and retaining a distinguished and diverse faculty. Successful candidates must demonstrate a record of research excellence appropriate to their rank; ability and willingness to teach core and elective courses in undergraduate, master and PhD degree programs in public policy; interest in public and policy engagement; and a keen interest in interacting with students, faculty, staff, and policy practitioners in an interdisciplinary professional school environment. We are open to negotiating joint appointments with other units at the university, such as the School of Environment and Sustainability, the School of Public Health, the college of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts, the Institute for Social Research, and any other unit on campus.
This position is part of a faculty cluster focused on addressing environmental racism and promoting health and social equity, and includes faculty hires at the Ford School of Public Policy, the School of Environment and Sustainability, the School of Public Health, and/or the Institute for Social Research, with additional support for cross-school collaborations within the cluster. The cluster is part of a university-wide faculty hiring initiative in anti-racism. Over a 3-year period, the university will hire at least 20 faculty members with scholarly expertise in racial inequality and structural racism.
Employment will require both a criminal background check and an institutional reference check regarding any misconduct. Candidates will be required to submit a self-disclosure form as well as an authorization to release information form.
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.
