JOB OPPORTUNITY
Job title: Faculty Position – Urban Planning (Open Rank) (Columbia University)
Hiring institution: Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Location: New York, New York | United States
Application deadline: Open until filled
The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University invites applications for a full-time faculty position in Urban Planning as a tenured Professor, tenured or tenure-track Associate Professor, tenure-track Assistant Professor, Professor of Professional Practice or Associate Professor of Professional Practice. A PhD in Urban Planning or a closely related field (e.g., City and Regional Planning, Urban Science) is required. Candidates who are engaged with practice are encouraged to apply.
GSAPP is a school dedicated to engaging and shaping the local, interlocal, transnational, and global built environment in light of the urgent issues of our time, such as climate, equity, and emerging technologies. With Master’s programs in Architecture, Urban Planning, Historic Preservation, Real Estate Development, Urban Design, Curatorial Studies, and Computational Design Practices and doctoral programs in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Historic Preservation, GSAPP represents a unique environment that fosters thinking and innovation across scales and contexts, creating new forms for practice and discourse to inform each other. The Urban Planning program is one of the oldest in the nation, granting its first degrees in 1941, and has approximately 100 Master’s and 20 Ph.D. students. The Program’s mission is to prepare our students for societal and technological changes and to become visionary change makers who are committed to the pursuit of equity and bodily, social, and environmental justice in the built environment.
Open to candidates from urban planning and related fields, GSAPP is particularly interested in candidates who teach and conduct academic and practice-oriented research on issues related to urban and spatial analysis, spatial justice and informational ethics, and/or data analytics. The ideal candidate will help extend a strong presence of critical spatial analysis in our Master of Science program by bridging theory, research, and practice on geographic information systems and analytics related to planning. Candidates in all ranks and categories will show clear evidence of expertise and have strong institution-building and communication skills. They must have demonstrated capacity for original work and show promise of significant continuing contributions to the discipline of urban planning. All candidates should have an interest in and capacity for collaboration with other disciplines.
GSAPP faculty innovate their disciplines and enable students to be educated in current and past ideas and methods, as well as support students’ explorations and testing of new ideas. Therefore, we welcome applications from candidates who are able to teach and conduct academic and practice-oriented research in emergent directions as well as applicants with strong capabilities in connecting and applying critical spatial analysis to pressing challenges (e.g., climate change and sustainability, public and community health, mobility and active transportation, immigration). Candidates should be able to teach at both the master’s and Ph.D. level. Candidates should be prepared to teach GIS and urban analytics and to advise Urban Planning PhD students.
Successful senior candidates (associate professor or full professor rank) being considered for hire with tenure require extensive teaching experience, a substantial body of scholarship and research, and interest in broader public engagement. A strong commitment to integrate theory and practice is expected.
Tenure-track candidates in the assistant professor rank must show evidence of teaching and great promise of impact in scholarship, research, and practice. Tenure-track candidates in the associate professor rank will have a demonstrated record of teaching and scholarly achievement and show great promise of attaining distinction in their field of specialization.
Successful professional practice candidates (associate professor of professional practice or full professor of professional practice rank) must show evidence of recent (within the past 3 years) or current contributions to the fields of the built environment through professional engagement and are expected to sustain an active professional practice in the discipline of hire. All professional practice candidates are expected to articulate how their professional expertise and practice interests can contribute to GSAPP, as a means to shape the direction of the disciplines and programs of the School as well as the field more broadly. Candidates for the full professor of professional practice rank will be those who have a minimum of ten years’ experience and who have distinguished careers for which they are recognized at the national and international level. Candidates for the associate professor of professional practice rank will generally have five years of professional experience and show clear evidence of expertise and significant promise of continuing development.
Please visit our online application site at (http://apply.interfolio.com/157056) for further information about this position and to submit your application. Please submit a letter of application, CV, a statement of current and future research plans, writing samples, samples of work (research/projects), teaching philosophy and sample syllabi, and contact information for three references. (Confidential recommendation letters will only be requested from references from candidates who are invited for a second-round interview). Review of applications will begin in mid-November and continue until the position is filled.
Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
Hiring Salary Ranges (Annually)
Assistant Professor (tenure-track): $100,000 – $130,000
Associate Professor (tenured, tenure-track, professional practice): $120,000 – $160,000
Full Professor (tenured, professional practice): $150,000 – $190,000
The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University’s good faith and a reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.
