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. 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. The successful candidate's research and teaching interests will focus on human-environment interactions, broadly defined, to enhance departmental emphases.
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. 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.