Apologies for cross-postings. Please see the job description below for a
Community Geography search at Syracuse University at the Assistant Professor
level (this is the second job opening at Syracuse, the other one being a
Political Geography position). Questions should be directed to Tod
Rutherford ([log in to unmask]). 

Best,
Farhana

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Farhana Sultana, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
144 Eggers Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13244, USA
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ; Website:
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/sultana.aspx
New Book: The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles:
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781849713597/
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NEW YORK, SYRACUSE. 

The Department of Geography, Syracuse University, seeks a tenure-track,
Assistant Professor with expertise in Community Geography. The successful
candidate will be a geographer with analytical skills in GIS, experience in
community development/community organizing and participatory research, and
research interests in some combination of public health, environmental
justice, social and economic inequality, and/or geographies of
race/ethnicity. 

The successful candidate will direct the Syracuse Community Geography
Program (http://www.communitygeography.org/), a unique endeavor of Syracuse
University and the Geography Department to provide pro bono spatial analysis
within the context of community proposed, community led collaborative
projects aimed at understanding and addressing significant social, economic,
environmental, and cultural problems facing the city of Syracuse, the
Central New York Region, and beyond. Now in its sixth year, and a crucial
component of the University's mission of "Scholarship in Action," the
Syracuse Community Geography Program has completed an impressive array of
community-driven analyses on issues ranging from food insecurity, to access
to resources for teens at risk of STDs, to the pattern of hydrofracking
leases in sensitive watersheds, to the development of safe walking routes to
elementary schools. Housed in the Geography Department's Integrated Spatial
Dynamics Lab, the Community Geographer works closely with a steering
committee comprised of university faculty, students, and staff, and
representatives of area foundations, community-based organizations.

 Syracuse Community Geography incorporates practices of Public Participation
GIS, but also requires extensive networking with community partners and
other units and departments on campus, grant-writing, skills in helping
community organizations define problems and formulate research questions,
close work with, and supervision of, graduate and undergraduate assistants
and interns in the discovery and development of data, data analysis, and the
preparation of maps and reports, and the coordination of community action on
the basis of the analyses made. The Community Geographer therefore must be
flexible and able to juggle a complex workload, able to respond quickly to
challenges, and skilled in negotiating among constituents with often
divergent interests or social/political orientations.

 This is a twelve-month position. Because this is a non-conventional
position, the relative distribution of work and expectations will be worked
out (and continually reevaluated) by the successful candidate and the Chair
of the Geography Department, with advice from the Community Geography
Advisory Board. 

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: 
For consideration, a candidate must complete an online faculty application
at http://www.sujobopps.com and attach online the following: Curriculum
Vitae; letter of application detailing the applicant's experience in public
participation GIS and community engagement, directing interns, managing
projects, and grant activity, as well as their integration into teaching and
scholarship; and a portfolio of appropriate work exemplifying points made in
the letter of application. Please combine files, as only three files can be
attached (at a maximum of 2MB each file). 

In addition, applicants will be required to provide the names and full email
addresses of three references, who will then be automatically contacted and
asked to submit their letters directly. 
Syracuse University is an EO/AA employer and particularly encourages
applications from women and minority candidates.

Application deadline: November 14, 2011