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Open Rank Professor of Education - Environmental Justice

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Position overview

Position title: Professor of Education

Position description

The Department of Education in the School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles announces an open rank search for 3 faculty in the area of Environmental Justice. We aim to hire a cluster of faculty across all ranks, including assistant and associate professors, with a demonstrated record of research addressing the nexus of environmental justice and education. We are interested in a multidisciplinary, multi-methodological cluster of scholars who will engage with communities, schools, local, state, federal, and international policy makers, as well as colleagues across areas in and outside of the Department of Education.

Recognizing that Communities of Color have been disproportionately impacted by environmental racism and Indigenous communities have also been at the forefront of fighting environmental injustice, we seek faculty whose research and teaching center the experiences and perspectives of People of Color as they engage in environmental justice, broadly defined. We are particularly interested in scholars who are engaged in interdisciplinary lines of inquiry that account for socio-ecological relations, human and environment interactions, and histories of place in regard to environmental justice, and who have experience creating programs that engage students, parents, and community partnerships.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in Education or related field with a demonstrated record of excellence in and continued promise for high-quality research, teaching, and service. In addition, applicants must have a demonstrated record of and commitment to the mentorship of students and faculty from underrepresented and underserved populations. The successful candidate should have expertise that allows them to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and be dedicated to promoting, advancing, and participating in active mentoring activities and programs that provide research and professional development opportunities for our diverse student body.

We encourage applications from scholarship drawing on a range of theoretical orientations and methodological approaches. Areas of inquiry may include but are not limited to:
• The design of teaching and learning contexts in times of changing lands and waters, working at a pedagogical, program, or policy level
• Decolonial thought and Indigenous methodologies
• Development of student activists for environmental action
• Inequities in environmental conditions across home, school, and community spaces and their contribution to other systems of inequality
• Impacts of environment and the natural world on teaching, learning, and development across the life course
• Teacher preparation related to environmental justice and sustainability
• Intersections of youth activism, arts, and climate justice
• Relationships between Indigenous science, conservation, human rights, and environmental justice
• Ethical and political issues concerning climate education and policy as well as the role of globalization in climate change
• Relationships between non-anthropocentric pedagogies, culturally relevant climate justice education, and environmental decision-making
• Analysis of how people understand the relationship between energy and infrastructures across scales (e.g., personal use, community use, etc.)
• An examination of the link between cultural practices, language, natural resources, and environmental protections
• The role of community-engaged data in environmental education and decision-making
• The relationship between the design, procurement, use, and disposal of educational technology and environmental justice
• The importance of environmental communication and ecoliteracy as applied to public understandings of environmental justice and the influence of climate denialism in public education.

Qualifications
Required: Ph.D. (or equivalent) in Education or other field relevant to environmental justice. Applications Requirements
• Curriculum Vitae
• Cover Letter
• Statement of Research
• Statement of Teaching
• Statement on Contributions to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion - An EDI Statement describes a faculty candidate’s past, present, and future (planned) contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion. To learn more about how UCLA thinks about contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion, please review our Sample Guidance for Candidates and related EDI Statement FAQ document.
• 1-3 Related publications
• 3-5 References (contact information only)
Please include contact information only for minimum 3 references. References will be contacted if the applicant is selected to move to the final round interviews.

FOR MORE INFO: Contact Professor William Sandoval at sandoval@gseis.ucla.edu
SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

STARTING DATE: Appointment to begin July 1, 2022, with teaching duties beginning September, 2022.

DEADLINE: Applications will be accepted via the UC Recruit website beginning The deadline for applications to be submitted is February 28, 2022.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications (required at time of application)

a PhD (or equivalent) in Education or other field relevant to environmental justice.

Application Requirements

Document requirements
  • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

  • Cover Letter

  • Statement of Research

  • Statement of Teaching

  • Statement on Contributions to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion - An EDI Statement describes a faculty candidate’s past, present, and future (planned) contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion. To learn more about how UCLA thinks about contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion, please review our Sample Guidance for Candidates and related EDI Statement FAQ document.

  • Sample Publication #1

  • Sample Publication #2

  • Sample Publication #3 (Optional)

  • Misc / Additional (Optional)

Reference requirements
  • 3-5 required (contact information only)

Please include contact information only for minimum 3 references. References will be contacted if application is selected to move to the final round interviews.

Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF07155

Help contact: mreyes@gseis.ucla.edu

About UCLA

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy.

Job location

Los Angeles, CA