[ES_JOBS_NET] Associate Professor or Professor and Director of the Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute
Hiscox, April
HISCOX at mailbox.sc.edu
Wed Sep 3 09:49:00 MDT 2025
Associate Professor or Professor and Director of the Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute
The University of South Carolina, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Geography
Posting number: FAC00099PO25
The faculty of the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina, Columbia campus, invites applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track/tenured position at the rank of advanced Associate Professor or Professor of Geography who will also direct the Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute (HVRI). The position will begin August 16, 2026. Candidates must have a PhD in Geography, Urban Planning, Climate Science, GIScience, or related fields.
The Department of Geography currently consists of twenty faculty. Current research areas of the faculty include resource politics, environmental hazards, human rights, coastal geomorphology, energy geographies, GIScience, biogeography, migration, and climate change. The Department has about 25 full-time graduate students and offers PhD, MS, MA, BS, and BA degrees. For more information about the Department of Geography, please visit our website at:
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/geography.
Required Education and Experience: Candidates must have a PhD in Geography, Urban Planning, Climate Science, GIScience, or related fields.
Preferred Qualifications: Candidates must have a PhD in Geography, Urban Planning, Climate Science, GIScience, or related fields. As a tenured advanced Associate or Full Professor in Geography, the successful candidate will provide leadership in advancing the core mission of HVRI by maintaining its excellence in interdisciplinary and convergent research on hazards, climate change adaptation, Emergency and disaster management policy and practice, and training the next generation researchers and specialists for successful careers in academe, public agencies, and private sectors. HVRI has been a leader in developing geospatial approaches for understanding the distributional impacts of disasters and providing evidentiary support for equitable approaches to community resilience and disaster risk reduction. We seek an innovative scholar to maintain and grow HVRI as a national and international leader in this field.
Special Instructions to Applicant:
Applications must include: (1) a cover letter addressing interests and qualifications for the position, (2) a curriculum vitae, and (3) the names and email addresses of 3 references. Reference letters will be solicited from candidates best meeting the qualifications of this position. Applicants may submit up to 2 research publications (optional). Applications will be reviewed beginning October 1, 2025.
Inquiries about this position may be directed to the Search Committee Chair, Dr. April Hiscox, at hiscox at mailbox.sc.edu.
Full Information: https://uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/190556
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April Hiscox
Professor
Editor, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Editor, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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Geography
McCausland College of Arts and Sciences
University of South Carolina
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