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 teaching, research, and public engagement related to the relationships between environmental factors (in physical, built, and/or social environments), environmental racism, health inequities, 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 health inequities. Applicants should also be interested in how the tools of public policy reform and democracy can be used to create racially just and equitable physical/built/social environments that contribute to reducing health inequities. Applications are welcome from a range of fields, including but not limited to environment and sustainability science, public health science, sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, urban planning, science and technology studies, history, and public policy.
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, the Law School, and any other unit on campus.
This position is part of a new faculty cluster focused on addressing environmental racism and promoting health equity, and will include 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 the next three years, the university will hire at least 20 faculty members with scholarly expertise in racial inequality and structural racism.
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
First consideration will be given to applications received by November 15, 2022, but applications will be considered until the position has been filled. Interested applicants may upload their application materials to: http://apply.interfolio.com/114392. 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. ( fordschool.umich.edu/dei)
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.
