Columbia Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Sustainable Development

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Earth Institute, Columbia University Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Sustainable Development $63,654 The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York, NY, seeks applications from innovative, doctoral candidates or recent Ph.D., M.D., J.D., or Sc.D. recipients (within 5 years of degree receipt) interested in a broad range of issues in sustainable development. The Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship program provides scholars with the opportunity to acquire and apply the cross-disciplinary expertise needed to address critical issues of sustainable development such as food security, energy systems, climate change impacts, poverty reduction, disease, and environmental degradation. Candidates who have developed cross-disciplinary approaches during …

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Tenure Track Assistant Professorship in Human Geography @Rutgers

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Assistant Professor in Human Geography (Race, Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality) Department of Geography, Rutgers University The Department of Geography at Rutgers University invites applicants for a Tenure Track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Human Geography. We seek a candidate whose teaching and research interests contribute to innovative perspectives on gender, sexuality, race, and/or ethnicity. Topical sub-areas might include, for example, racial discrimination; spaces of exclusion; black, feminist, or queer geographies; migration and mobility; liberation politics; solidarity and social movements; spaces of difference; social or environmental justice; legal geographies; and boundaries/borders. The candidate will teach courses …

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#CfP: Value-Based Praxis in Community-Based Participatory Research and Action for Social and Environmental Equity

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Call for papers for AAG Annual Meeting Value-Based Praxis in Community-Based Participatory Research and Action for Social and Environmental Equity Type: Paper Theme: Public Engagement in Geography Sponsor Groups: Urban Geography Specialty Group Organizers: Reginald Archer Chairs: Reginald Archer Call for Papers In an effort to further understand the nuances of Community-based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR), this session aims to elucidate the role of value-based praxis in community-based research and action. That is, what are the values—e.g., social justice, self-determination, democratic participation, etc.— that inform and drive community-based research and action? To what extent are these values attended to equally? …

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#EESPublishes: Prof Vörösmarty on a global delta sediment balance model for sea-level rise

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ESS Professor Charles Vörösmarty coauthored a paper entitled “A model of water and sediment balance as determinants of relative sea level rise in contemporary and future deltas” in the Journal of Geomorphology. Highlights from the article include; A delta sediment balance model is developed for a global selection of deltas. Sediment flux and relative sea-level rise vary under modern and future scenarios. Watershed and coastal sediment processes outweigh sea-level rise in some deltas. Full use of hydro-resources in upstream basins strongly impacts downstream deltas. Dr. Vörösmarty’s research focuses on the development of computer models and geospatial data sets used in …

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Museum Pedagogy and Water Justice groups w/ compensation!

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TLC Focused Inquiry Groups, Fall 2017 The Teaching and Learning Center is pleased to launch two new Focused Inquiry Groups (FIGs) whose work will span the Fall and Spring semesters. Our FIGs will bring together small groups of Graduate Center students who will collaborate on a specific teaching and learning project. Past and ongoing FIGs include “Developing a Socially-Conscious Pedagogy,” “Teaching as an International Student,” and “Student Privacy and Open Digital Pedagogy.” Please read below for program descriptions for our two new FIGs, as well as application instructions. Focused Inquiry Group: Adapting Museum Pedagogy for the CUNY Classroom CUNY classrooms bring together …

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Harvey Mudd College Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies

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Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, California) invites applications for the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies, beginning fall 2018. Applications are invited from scholars working on any aspect of science and technology and their social dimensions. We especially encourage applicants whose work draws attention to intersections of science and technology with race, gender, sexuality, class and/or disability. We seek applicants whose research methods draw from fields that can include, but are not limited to, anthropology, communication, history, literature, media studies, philosophy, and sociology. The successful candidate will have a PhD by the time of appointment, a strong and …

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College Assistant Position at CUNY CSI Available

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An Assistant Professor from CUNY—College of Staten Island, is looking to fill a part-time position for Research Assistance through the position of “College Assistant”. Her ethnographic research is broadly in the areas of disability rights, neoliberal governance and social justice struggles in the context of South Asia. She is a faculty with visual impairment, and is looking for an advanced Grad student (preferably Ph.D. student) to assist with research and to facilitate informational access. You will be assisting with research pertaining to Disability Studies, International Development, Social Work, and the like. The position is at a competitive hourly rate with …

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#EESPublishes: Prof @SethaLow on private securitization practices & state/capitalist control

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ESS Professor Setha Low published an article in Anthropological Theory entitled “Security at home: How private securitization practices increase state and capitalist control“.  The article is featured in a special issue of the Journal on “Producing Sates of Security” which offers a theoretical framework and critical grounding for the anthropology of security. Abstract: The impact of the security state is not only seen in the political and spatial restrictions on public space and the public sphere or inscribed in militarized national borders and cities, but also in the increasing penetration of the domestic and private realm of home. These securitization …

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