The History Department at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor in environmental history starting in the fall of 2025.
Area and chronological expertise are open.
Duties will include teaching assigned courses, conducting research, writing for publication, advising students, participating in department governance, and performing university service.
The successful candidate will join a growing community of faculty interested in the history of science, technology, and medicine, as well as find many opportunities for collaboration with interdisciplinary groups such as the Center for the Environment, the Living Earth Collaborative, and the new School of Public Health.
Please send a letter of application, c.v., and name and contact information for three referees via the Interfolio application portal (apply.interfolio.com/151378). Applications received before October 1, 2024 will receive full consideration. Consideration after that date will be at the discretion of the search committee.
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A Ph.D. in hand by August 1, 2025, and evidence of scholarly potential are required.
Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri - HistoryWe engage our students through the study of the past. We are committed to the idea that the most compelling stories are often the most revealing ones. In addition to teaching students the particular skills of historical inquiry, we provide them with tools that serve them beyond their majors and beyond the university.The discipline of history poses challenging questions about the ways that human beings have made the worlds they live in. There are many approaches to history. Some historians study politics, whether that means political parties or the ways that people who never held public office nonetheless act to shape public life. Others study the lived experience of everyday Americans or the popular culture that reflects how people understand the world around them. Still others are especially interested in the kinds of stories about the past that we tell ourselves, for those stories reveal a great deal about our own society and about earlier times. While it is not true that history repeats itself, it is true that without knowledge of the past we are unable to understand the present.Some history majors go on to pursue graduate ...work in the field and become professional historians, but most find that the knowledge and skills they build through history courses fit them for a wide range of careers. Our graduates have attended law or medical school, and have pursued careers in government, education, research, business, communications, international agencies, publishing, museums and archives, public advocacy and many other fields.