The Natural Hazards Center is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for an assistant professor position focused on the social dimensions of hazards and disasters. Applications will be accepted through October 15, 2024.
The successful candidate will be located in the University of Colorado’s Institute of Behavioral Science and serve as a Natural Hazards Center faculty affiliate. Tenure and teaching responsibilities will be in either the department of sociology or geography.
The Institute is seeking applicants with a specialization the intersections of disasters, inequality, and environmental justice; inequalities as a limiting factor for preparedness and mitigation; and inequalities as related to pre- and post-disaster health and social outcomes. Those with qualitative and/or quantitative methodological expertise and whose research addresses structural inequality through evidence-informed action are especially of interest.
Responsibilities include conducting research in your specialization, securing external funding to support that research, and teaching graduate and undergraduate classes.
For more information—including salary range, benefit information, and how to apply—please visit the job posting on the University of Colorado Boulder website.