University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada has a faculty position open: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Climate Change and Human Migration

Climate Change and Human Migration (Assistant Professor)

Following the UBC climate emergency declaration and the establishment of the Centre for Migration Studies, the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in geography or a related field, who is working at the intersection of climate change and contemporary and future displacements, mobilities and/or migration.

We welcome applications from scholars with a commitment to inter-disciplinarity (including the natural and social sciences), public engagement, and/or community-based research. Furthermore, we frame a broad reading of climate change and human mobility within the understanding that for Indigenous people and other marginalized communities in the Global South displacement and migration is an amplification of vulnerabilities imposed by colonialism, racialization and political economic forces. We especially encourage candidates from Indigenous, racialized and/or Global South communities to apply.

The successful candidate will contribute to teaching in the Department’s Human Geography and/or Environment and Sustainability programs, as well as to departmental and university climate research and climate emergency initiatives.