Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College

Organization

Bowdoin College

Job Posted

August 25, 2025

Job status

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Job Type

Job Duration

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Remote

No

Contact Name

Julia Bruno

Contact Email

facultycareers@bowdoin.edu

Contact Phone

207-724-3837

Location

Brunswick, ME
United States
Bowdoin College’s Program of Environmental Studies invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2026. We invite candidates with expertise in computational/digital approaches who can contribute to the interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Program. The subfield is open with respect to discipline.
Note: Actual compensation information is not disclosed in job post.

Summary

 We are especially interested in candidates who will strengthen our curriculum by bringing in new competencies in areas including, but not limited to: climate adaptation; energy policy and just transitions; environmental and public health; GIS, remote sensing, and/or surveillance; landscape ecology; social and racial justice; social-ecological systems; sustainable transportation; and/or urban design and planning. The teaching load is four courses per year, which includes rotating responsibility for an introductory interdisciplinary environmental studies course, an intermediate-level core course for the environmental studies major, and courses with computational/digital approaches informed by the candidate's scholarship.

Bowdoin College accepts only electronic submissions. Please visit https://careers.bowdoin.edu to submit: 1) a cover letter; 2) a curriculum vitae; 3) a description of your research plans; 4) a statement that describes your teaching philosophy and practice, including how you create learning environments that prepare students to interact constructively with a diversity of people, spaces, situations, and ideas; and 5) the names and contact information for three references who have agreed to provide letters of recommendation. 

Review of applications will begin September 15, 2025 and continue until the position is filled.

For more information and to apply:

https://careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16570

Compensation Information

NOTE:  ACTUAL COMPENSATION INFORMATION NOT DISCLOSED

 

Bowdoin College offers opportunities for professional development, a fully funded, year-long pre-tenure sabbatical leave (after three years of teaching and successful reappointment), and regular, generously funded, post-tenure sabbaticals. Support for teaching, grant-writing, artificial intelligence initiatives, computing software, and community partnerships in courses is available. The College also offers robust programming and resources for establishing and enhancing mentoring networks.