POSITION DESCRIPTION:  The Department of Communication is seeking a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Public Relations with an emphasis in Environmental Communication. We seek a colleague whose research and teaching addresses environmental communication/social justice efforts and public relations, and who can teach social media analytics.

IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates should demonstrate clear evidence of the potential for establishing a national reputation through an active program of scholarship. In addition, candidates should have a strong record of teaching, an interest in both undergraduate and graduate education, and a willingness to mentor graduate students. Existing courses the candidate may teach include Public Relations Campaigns, Digital Media and Citizenship, Introduction to Communicating about Health/Science/Environment, and Environmental Communication, along with opportunities to develop new courses.

As part of a multi-year plan to hire six tenure-track faculty, the newly formed Department of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo seeks to hire three Assistant or Associate Professors for the 2020-2021 academic year.

In this round of hiring, we seek scholars with expertise in the economic, social, political, cultural, historical, psychological, and ecological aspects of environmental and sustainability issues. We are especially interested in scholars who study the macro structures that affect the sustainability of societies; the forces that shape the way individuals think and act; and the processes controlling coupled natural-human systems. Western New York represents a living laboratory to study issues and processes over a gradient that includes rural, suburban and urban environments as well as two of the Great Lakes. The department already is broadly based, with faculty ranging from the ecological and environmental sciences to the humanities, and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees including Sustainability Leadership, Environmental Geosciences, Environmental Studies, and Evolution, Ecology and Behavior. Our hires in the next few years will strengthen our ability to solve critical societal and environmental problems and grow degree programs in these important areas.