Career Center

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts, at the University of Texas at Arlington, invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Tenure-track position.

We are seeking an Anthropologist - broadly defined - specializing in the environment and climate change, with a preferred focus on human adaptation, sustainability, and societal change. The successful candidate’s areas of research expertise may include, but are not limited to human impacts on environments, human adaptation to environmental change, human ecology, paleoenvironment, and environmental justice. We are especially interested in candidates who bring an interdisciplinary lens as well as expertise in analytical tools such as GIS or ABM to the study of topics such as climate change impacts, risks and resilience in the past and/or contemporary times, and mitigation and adaptive responses to climate-related impacts such as sea level change, collapse of coastal resources, water scarcity, and intensification of extreme weather events. The new hire will be able to demonstrate how their work broadens the scope and bridges the scholarship of current faculty of the UTA Anthropology Program, helps develop research opportunities for students, and contributes to the research-intensive priorities of the university. We expect candidates to seek external funding to pursue a research agenda built around these loci as well as to provide research and training opportunities to our students (including first-generation college students with various cultural backgrounds). We also welcome candidates who can help prepare our students for positions in the Cultural Resource Management (CRM) industry, particularly through instruction in GIS.

Applicants must have a PhD completed by time of appointment (September 1, 2025).