Multiple Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Environment/Climate Impacts on Health and Wellbeing

Indiana University Bloomington is seeking multiple tenure-track assistant professors focused on the impacts of environment and climate on health and wellbeing, starting Fall 2025. Candidates should have a doctoral degree in relevant fields and demonstrate research interests in topics like pollution, climate change, and environmental justice. Responsibilities include maintaining an active research program, teaching, and contributing to diversity initiatives. Applications are due by October 18, 2024, with ongoing review until positions are filled.
Position Summary

Indiana University Bloomington ( IUB ) invites applications for multiple assistant professor, tenure-track faculty positions as part of a multidisciplinary cluster hire in environment/climate impacts on health and wellbeing to begin as early as the Fall of 2025. While ultimate tenure homes (departments, schools) will be determined in accordance with qualifications and interests, we seek faculty with a research focus related to the health and wellbeing consequences and drivers of a wide variety of environmental and climate issues, including pollution, climate change, environmental/climate policy; environmental justice and inequities in exposure, emerging diseases or adverse effects related to the environment and climate.

The search is part of Indiana University's Faculty 100 initiative, which seeks to expand on the wide range of existing research strengths at IUB to help foster research teams to compete successfully for large-scale research programs such as through the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health.

Responsibilities: Candidates are expected to sustain an active, externally funded research program, to engage undergraduate and graduate students through effective teaching, and to participate in service to the university and the profession.

Application Procedures: Applicants should apply online and submit a letter of application and CV, along with (optional) research and teaching statements. IUB faculty members are expected to interact with our diverse student and faculty community. As such, we are especially interested in applicants with a record of successful teaching and mentoring of students from diverse backgrounds (including first-generation college students, low-income students, racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ , etc.), and an interest in contributing to IUB programs, curricular offerings, and service portfolio in ways that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion; applicants are encouraged to address these topics in their letter of application.

Applicants seeking appointment at the assistant professor ranks should apply at

https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25853 and provide names of three letters of reference. Review of applications will begin immediately and for full consideration, applications should be received by October 18, 2024. Applications will continue to be accepted until all positions are filled. Queries about the position or the application procedures may be address to faculty2@iu.edu

Basic Qualifications

Qualifications: Applicants must have a doctoral degree in anthropology, demography, economics, epidemiology, geography, law, public health, public policy, political science, sociology, or a related field. Applicants for tenured positions are expected to have a record of or a demonstrated capacity for successfully contributing to IUB's goals of increasing large-scale externally funded federal research grants, such as from NSF , NIH , and DoD. Applicants with a record of collaborative research across disciplines, schools, or departments are encouraged.

Department Contact for Questions

Queries about the position or the application procedures may be address to faculty2@iu.edu

Special Instructions

Application Procedures: Applicants should apply online and submit a letter of application and CV, along with (optional) research and teaching statements. IUB faculty members are expected to interact with our diverse student and faculty community. As such, we are especially interested in applicants with a record of successful teaching and mentoring of students from diverse backgrounds (including first-generation college students, low-income students, racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ , etc.), and an interest in contributing to IUB programs, curricular offerings, and service portfolio in ways that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion; applicants are encouraged to address these topics in their letter of application.

Applicants seeking appointment at the assistant professor ranks should apply at

https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25853 and provide names of three letters of reference. Review of applications will begin immediately and for full consideration, applications should be received by October 18, 2024. Applications will continue to be accepted until all positions are filled. Queries about the position or the application procedures may be address to faculty2@iu.edu