Professor of Public Policy, Racial Justice Approaches to Environmental Racism and Health Equity

Job description

Description The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan invites applications from well-qualified individuals for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position focused teaching, research, and public engagement related to the relationships between environmental factors (in physical, built, and/or social environments), environmental racism, health inequities, and public policy. Applicants should have expertise focused on structural and other forms of racism—including racism in public policies--that create environmental racism and associated health inequities. Applicants should also be interested in how the tools of public policy reform and democracy can be used to create racially just and equitable physical/built/social environments that contribute to reducing health inequities. Applications are welcome from a range of fields, including but not limited to environment and sustainability science, public health science, sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, urban planning, science and technology studies, history, and public policy. The position will have a university year appointment. The Ford School is committed to attracting and retaining a di...