"Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics and Sustainability"

JOB ID: 283136

Atlanta, Georgia

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school. 

Georgia Tech Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority. 

2. We strive for excellence. 

3. We thrive on diversity. 

4. We celebrate collaboration. 

5. We champion innovation. 

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression. 

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community. 

8. We act ethically. 

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact. 

About the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs

Founded in 1990, the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is dedicated to educating the next generation of scholars and practitioners on approaches to tackling real-world problems to advance the global human condition. As one of the first professional schools of international affairs situated at major technological institute, we provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary, multi-method, and flexible undergraduate and graduate social science programming at the nexus of science and technology, with special attention to strategic, political economy, and comparative political perspectives on international security, global development, and governance.

Location

Atlanta, GA

Job Summary

The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position in Comparative Politics with a focus on environmental sustainability with a preference for regional expertise in Asian (especially Japan or India) or African regional politics. Scholars are strongly encouraged to apply who bring a comparative political perspective to issues such as energy, the environment, natural resource management or infrastructure resilience. The start date for the position could be either August 2025 or August 2026. Applicants should show promise or evidence of outstanding scholarly achievement, exceptional commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels and have an interest in contributing to the advancement of the intellectual community and related outreach efforts. The position will contribute to enhancing the Nunn School's programming in areas of growing interest across campus such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, resilience, peace engineering, environmental security, and innovation.

Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to the teaching and mentoring of students. For further details and to submit an application, please click here.

Responsibilities

Teaching:

• Demonstrate exceptional commitment to teaching.
• Contribute to undergraduate and graduate programs in Comparative Politics and/or Global Development.
• Develop and teach courses in Comparative Politics as well as courses on topics related to technology and sustainability, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Environmental Politics, and/or the regional politics of Asia or Africa.
• Deliver courses that integrate perspectives from political science, economics, sociology, and/or other interdisciplinary backgrounds.

Research:

• Conduct outstanding scholarly research in the field of Comparative Politics.
• Show promise or evidence of outstanding scholarly achievement.
• Publish research findings in reputable academic journals.
• Develop a strong research agenda aligned with the goals of the Nunn School 
• Contribute to the advancement of the intellectual community through research activities.