The University of Oregon’s Environmental Studies Program invites applications for a transdisciplinary tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of energy transitions and decarbonization. Successful candidates will have demonstrated potential to center environmental justice and/or climate justice and climate solutions in the advancement of knowledge on renewable energy and energy decarbonization in area(s) including but not limited to: policy, governance, social movements, land use, generation and storage, ecological impacts, Indigenous and energy sovereignty, economics, energy futures, energy justice, the intersections of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, militarism, and fossil fuel dependence, and the intersection of equity and climate resilience.
Applications are encouraged from candidates who will focus on the sociocultural, sociotechnical, and material dimensions of energy systems, who will use methodologies including but not limited to those from environmental studies and/or Indigenous, race and ethnic studies, political science, history, anthropology, economics, and sociology, who have the potential to catalyze existing University of Oregon strengths such as in environmental justice (e.g. in the programs Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Center for Environmental Futures, Just Futures Institute; Sociology; and others), energy governance (e.g. in the School of Law), solar energy and energy storage (Departments of Chemistry and Architecture), climate science (Departments of Earth Sciences and Geography), environmental planning (College of Design including in Planning Public Policy and Management and in Landscape Architecture), and/or who have the potential to position graduating students for leadership in environmental justice and climate solutions.
To build capacity in climate and environmental justice, they encourage applications from candidates who will work “alongside” rather than conduct research “about” marginalized communities, who draw from their own situated or embodied knowledge or lived experience, and who have the potential to develop research and teaching that engages perspectives beyond dominant hegemonic frameworks. Candidates may center interdisciplinary formations, epistemologies, or ontologies from historically excluded groups including but not limited to: Black, Pasifika, Native American, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and other Indigenous and Latinx communities who are at the leading-edge of climate research and activism, from the multi-national United States, refugee and/or diasporic communities.
