October 2024
Executive Director, Center for Community Systems at the Hillier College of Architecture & Design
New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
Position Summary:
The Executive Director of the Center for Community Systems at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) is responsible for the leadership, development, and management of a dynamic, multi-million-dollar university research center. The center comprises a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, associated faculty/researchers, students, and subcontractors. The Executive Director is responsible for envisioning the Center’s diverse scope of research, technical assistance, and planning activities, and then competing and securing millions of dollars in grants and contracts to execute that vision. This role also involves partnering closely with the College to create and enhance collaboration and educational and research opportunities and experiences for both students and faculty.
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Buell Center Research and Teaching Fellow at Columbia University (open until filled)
The Buell Center at Columbia University seeks a recent doctoral recipient to join its intellectual community for a 21-month fellowship (two academic years and an intervening summer) as a Buell Center Research and Teaching Fellow. Ideal candidates will be scholars of the built environment who are beginning an academic career of research and teaching, with a growing record of original writing intended for peer-reviewed publication. Complementary experience, such as design, curatorial, critical, or fourth-purpose organizing work, is welcome but not required.
The 21-month fellowship will begin September 1, 2025 and is intended to give Fellows a chance to advance their own research, gain teaching experience, and take part in the ongoing intellectual life of the Buell Center; the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP); and Columbia University. The Fellow will be co-hosted by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.
The Fellow is expected to be in residence at Columbia for two academic years and will remain a Fellow in the intervening summer, but is not required to be in residence. In addition to presenting their research once yearly in a formal setting, Fellows will teach at least one semester as faculty in GSAPP’s architectural history survey course, “Questions in Architectural History” (QAH). The Fellow may also propose to teach a separate course within GSAPP based on their own research.
The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture is a separately endowed entity within Columbia GSAPP, which sponsors interdisciplinary research through projects, workshops, public programming, publications, and awards.
Qualifications
A recent PhD degree in Architecture or a related field is required by the start date of the appointment. PhDs granted within the last three years prior to the appointment start date are acceptable.
Successful candidates:
– must have a PhD conferred within three years of—and no later than—the start date of the appointment
– must demonstrate an interest in pushing the disciplinary or methodological norms of architecture and related fields of the built environment
– should have a growing record of bridging across disciplines in the humanities or social sciences
– may be focused on any historical period and geographic area in their research.
Application Instructions
Interested applicants should submit: a CV; a cover letter; a research statement (1,500 words), dissertation abstract (150 words), one-sentence project description, one to three images (on one page); a teaching statement (500 words); at least one writing sample; and the names of three references. Recommendation letters will be solicited for shortlisted applicants.
For further information about the Buell Center and FAQ about the fellowship, please visit: buellcenter.columbia.edu, You may also reach the Buell Center at buellcenter@columbia.edu.
Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.
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August-September 2024
Assistant Professor – History and Theory of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
The Department of Architecture seeks applications from architectural scholars whose research addresses the vital and urgent issues of our day through a historical and theoretical lens. It especially welcomes candidates whose work and teaching engage dynamically with the intersectional nature of architecture, including (but not limited to) topics such as the Global South, environmental history, migration, disability, gender, sexuality, inequality, race, and Science and Technology Studies.
Director of Preservation Services, Historic Macon Foundation
The successful candidate will demonstrate outstanding scholarship, teaching, and the ability to participate creatively in the History, Theory, and Society (HTS) subject area within the Department of Architecture, contributing to the B.A., M.Arch, M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs. HTS addresses the history and theory of architecture and urbanism from a humanistic, interdisciplinary perspective.
The ideal candidate is familiar with historic construction methods and terminology, able to apply the Secretary of Interior Standards for Treatment of Historic Properties in the field, and competent to communicate with agency representatives and clients in a professional and proactive manner.
This employee is responsible for working with homeowners and developers to complete the necessary research and documentation for state and federal rehabilitation tax credit programs. Additionally, the Director of Preservation Services must be competent to prepare nominations for the National Register of Historic Places.
July 2024
Assistant Professor in 20th-Century United States Environmental History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Allan H. Selig Assistant Professor in United States History should have the capacity to teach survey courses that treat the full sweep of U.S./American Environmental History, from Indigenous history prior to European presence in North America until the present day. The successful candidate will actively take part in the intellectual life of a History faculty with temporally, geographically, and methodological diverse interests; and will engage with the interdisciplinary Center for Culture, History, and Environment housed in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. The successful candidate will teach introductory surveys, upper-level undergraduate courses, and graduate seminars.
City Planner I, Jacksonville, Florida.
This entry level professional urban planning and regulatory work position includes data collection, analysis, and maintenance. Work requires knowledge of general principles and practices of urban planning. Applicants are required to have at least thirty semester hours of college coursework in urban and regional planning, public administration, political science, geography, landscape architecture, architecture, historic preservation, environmental science, or closely related fields.
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