"Open Rank Urban Economist with Emphasis on Real Estate"

Cornell Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate

Open Rank Urban Economist with Emphasis on Real Estate and the Built Environment

Position Details

The Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate at Cornell University invites applications for an open rank (assistant to full professor), tenured/tenure track nine-month, full-time position in urban economics with an emphasis on real estate markets and the built environment. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in an appropriate field with strong grounding in economics. This position will begin on July 1, 2026, and will be based at Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

Candidates should have an outstanding scholarly record and ability to work in a multidisciplinary department with multiple valued constituents. The individual hired into this position will teach and advise students in the department’s two-year master’s program in real estate in addition to Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will also assist in advancing department initiatives and service.

For full consideration, applications should be received by December 19, 2025. Applications will be considered beyond that date until the position is filled.

Required Application Materials

All applicants should submit a one-page statement of intent, curriculum vitae, up to three scholarly papers, and a list of three references.

All applicants should submit these materials using the university's online application tool at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31087

Compensation

• Salary Range - $175,000 - $320,000 based on the selected candidate’s qualifications.
• Generous benefits package including healthcare (Endowed Employee Healthcare Information). Cornell has been nationally recognized as an award-winning workplace for health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives.
• Research funds held in a department account and used within University policy and guidelines.

Department Details

Situated within a world-class research university, the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate is jointly overseen by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) and the S.C. Johnson College of Business (SCJCB). The department manages a two-year professional master’s program in real estate, the Baker M.P.S., with roughly 100 students in residence. A distinguishing feature of the program is its comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to real estate education, reflecting the different types of skills required for many career paths in real estate. This includes expertise in urban planning, architecture, law, engineering, finance, and economics. A further distinguishing feature of the program is its blending of academic in-class instruction along with input from industry professionals and out-of-class experience.

The Rubacha department presently has a complement of five tenured faculty, one senior lecturer, and two Professors of Practice with differing expertise that supports the multidisciplinary structure of both the department and the Baker M.P.S. degree.

The department's center of operations is in Ithaca, New York, where the resources and opportunities for innovative and interdisciplinary collaborations are extensive. Beginning August 2026, the department is launching a NYC option for second-year students in the Baker M.P.S. in real estate. Second-year students will have the option to spend their second year taking classes at Cornell facilities in NYC along with Immersion opportunities in locally based real estate companies.

About the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University (Cornell AAP) includes the departments of Architecture, Art, City and Regional Planning, the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate, jointly led by AAP and the SC Johnson College of Business, the multicollege Department of Design Tech, and the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities. The college spans three locations in Ithaca, New York City, and Rome, Italy, each with world-class facilities and cutting-edge technologies.

Renowned for its top-ranked graduate degrees and preeminent undergraduate architecture program, Cornell AAP is about acts of transformation. We are committed to reimagining and reshaping the world in new ways, every day. A vital college at one of the nation's foremost research universities, Cornell AAP brings faculty, staff, and students together from around the world to take up some of today's most urgent challenges and advance research, inquiry, and collaborative approaches to designing, making, and doing that make a more just and resilient future.

About the SC Johnson College of Business

The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business (established on July 1, 2016) combines three Schools: the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management (Johnson), the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management (Dyson), and the Nolan School of Hotel Administration (Nolan).

The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management offers MBA, Accelerated MBA, Executive MBA, and Ph.D. programs. Courses and programs are taught at Cornell’s main Ithaca campus, the Cornell Tech campus in New York City, and other locations across the globe.

The Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration is the top-ranked management program worldwide, with undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. programs. The Nolan School of Hotel Administration (Nolan) has approximately 800 undergraduates and 60 graduate students. Founded in 1922, Nolan is an AACSB accredited business school, with a resident faculty of 65 and over 10,000 alumni worldwide. Important resources available to faculty include extraordinary access to industry leaders, excellent research funding, the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR), and the cultural and intellectual resources of the Cornell University community.

The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management houses a top-ranked undergraduate business program as well as graduate programs that award Ph.D., M.S. and M.P.S. degrees. Areas of faculty research include management; environmental, energy and resource economics; food and agricultural economics; and international and development economics. Faculty members in the Dyson School frequently collaborate with colleagues in Computer and Information Sciences, Economics, Engineering, Natural Resources, and other units on campus.