The Department to Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill is seeking quality applicants for two tenure track positions, one at the Assistant Professor level and the other at the Assistant/Associate. We ask that you bring the ads to the attention of potential candidates, while noting that we are especially eager to consider applications from women and minorities. Finally, anyone interested in either position should contact the respective search chair directly. If you'd like to know more about our rapidly expanding department and the University of North Carolina, please feel free to contact me. Also, you may want to view our home page at www.unc.edu/depts/geog/. 

NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL  27599-3220.   The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geography invites applications for two tenure track positions beginning Fall, 2000, one at the Assistant Professor level, the other at Assistant/Associate Professor.  Successful candidates are expected to maintain superior records in research, teaching, service, and grantship appropriate to a major Ph.D. granting institution and should be prepared to contribute substantially to associated departmental emphases and to the discipline.   Ph.D. expected at the time of appointment.

Position 1. Human or Physical Geography (Assistant).   The position is open to candidates with any substantive specialization in human or physical geography. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate expertise and interest in using innovative information technology approaches, especially those in the Geographic Information Sciences, in both teaching and research.

Position 2.  Human-Environment Interactions  (Assistant/Associate).  The successful candidate's research and teaching interests will focus on human-environment interactions, broadly defined, to enhance departmental emphases.  We welcome interests in political and cultural ecology; environmental perception; human dimensions of global change; environmental policy and management; and other nature-society discourses, such as environmental aesthetics and justice.  International perspectives are especially welcome.  The candidate should also be comfortable contributing to emerging interdisciplinary environmental programs at the University level.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the oldest state university in the country and is recognized as one of the nation's finest public institutions, with many internationally recognized programs.  UNC is located within the rapidly developing Research Triangle area of nearly one million people, with easy access to Duke, North Carolina State, and other campuses.  Further, Chapel Hill has long been recognized as one of the most attractive and livable towns in the U.S.

The Department of Geography offers BA, MA, and PhD degrees with most of the 45 graduate students pursuing the doctorate.  We are a collegial, dynamic, and highly productive department of 17 faculty that has recently been targeted by the University administration for growth and development.  The 1997 hiring of four senior faculty is complemented this year by the hiring of two junior faculty.  A full time systems administrator supports the computing and communications infrastructure within the department's research and instructional lab and dedicated faculty labs for research, instruction, and outreach.  Further, the resources available for professional development are considerable.  Please feel free to contact the department chair, Dr. Leo Zonn
(919-962-3877  or zonn@unc.edu)   for details about the department and university.  Other elements of the department and university can be found on our home page: http://www.unc.edu/depts/geog/. 

The formal review process will begin on December 1 and will continue until the positions are filled.  The applicant should indicate the position and rank for which s/he is applying, and should submit a curriculum vitae, select publications, and names of four references.  A cover letter should include research and funding interests and intentions, as well as potential contributions to our program, and in the case of the human/physical position, the letter should also include a description of teaching applications of pertinent information technology approaches. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an EO/AA institution and women and minorities
are especially encouraged to apply.  SEP 99-170.

Apply: 

Position 1.  Dr. Stephen Birdsall, Chair, Human/Physical Search Committee. Voice  919-962-3918. Fax 919-962-1537. Internet: birdsall@email.unc.edu.

Position 2. Dr. Altha Cravey, Chair, Human-Environment Search Committee.  Voice 919-962-5157. Fax 919-962-1537.  Internet cravey@unc.edu.