finished (2022/02/01, finished 2022/06/17)| Position ID: | Cornell-STS-VAP2223 [#21083, WDR-00029721] |
| Position Title: | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Position Type: | Non tenure-track faculty |
| Position Location: | Ithaca, New York 14853, United States [map] |
| Subject Areas: | Science and Technology Studies / climate change, Climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, and the Anthropocene, Environment, History of Science, Medicine, Natural Sciences, sustainability |
| Appl Deadline: | 2022/03/01 11:59PM finished (2022/02/01, finished 2022/06/17) |
| Position Description: |
| The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2022-2023 academic year. The successful candidate will teach three courses over the course of the academic year. In the Fall semester, the successful candidate would teach an upper-level Senior Seminar course in the area of their choosing within the subject area of Biology & Society. In the Spring semester, the successful candidate would teach a lecture course “Ethics and the Environment” (STS/BSOC 2061), which explores economic, epistemological, political, and social issues connected to the environment. The second course taught would be another Senior Seminar within the subject area of Biology & Society.
A PhD degree is required in Science & Technology Studies or a closely related field such as anthropology; history; or sociology of the environment, medicine, science, or technology. The successful candidate must also have demonstrated teaching ability.
Applications must be submitted through Academic Jobs Online. Please submit a cover letter describing your research and outlining your teaching interests, a diversity statement, a curriculum vitae, sample syllabi, and the names of three references that speak to your teaching ability. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2022; applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled.
For more information, please contact the Department Chair, Prof. Suman Seth, at sts-chair@cornell.edu. Information about our undergraduate majors is available here: https://sts.cornell.edu/bio-society and here: https://sts.cornell.edu/sts-major
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