University of Illinois Chicago
Associate/Professor - Urban Planning and Policy
Chicago, IL, US
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About the role
- We seek a scholar whose research and teaching critically engages with community development and immigration in U.S. urban regions.
- Policing, enforcement, and community response: Including research on immigrant communities' interactions with systems of policing, immigration enforcement, and surveillance, as well as community-based strategies of resistance, protection, and advocacy.
- Duties Responsibilities Teach in the department's graduate and undergraduate programs with a typical teaching load of 2:2 per academic year.
Responsibilities
- the Master in Urban Planning and Policy (MUPP), the Master in City Design, and the Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy.
- The selected candidate will teach in the department's undergraduate and graduate programs and is expected to develop a research agenda that advances the department's mission to critically address contemporary urban challenges and reduce social and spatial inequities.
- The successful candidate will contribute to advancing equitable, community-engaged planning practices that support immigrant and migrant communities and address the social, spatial, and institutional challenges they face.
- Including a focus on informal activities such as street vending, day labor, and other livelihood strategies, as well as planning and policy responses to support economic inclusion and worker protections.
- Develop a research program that makes an identifiable contribution to the study of urban planning, urban studies, or a related subfield.
Requirements
- Candidates must have an earned PhD in urban planning or a closely related field and have an academic profile commensurate with a tenured faculty line.
Benefits
- Focusing on access to and delivery of housing, public health, and/or social services in immigrant communities, including innovative or community-led service models responding to inequality, informality, and precarity.
Company info
- The College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs was created in 1995 as part of UIC's Great Cities Initiative.
- We are particularly interested in candidates whose work focuses on one or more of the following areas:
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