The Department of History and the Environmental Studies Program at Lehigh University invite applications for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor of History with a specialization in Environmental History, effective 15 August 2024. Candidates must have an earned Ph.D. in History or a related field by the date of employment. The geographical, thematic and temporal focus is open. 

The successful candidate will be expected to teach a 2:2-equivalent load at all levels of the History Department’s graduate and undergraduate curricula, as well as at all levels of the Environmental Studies Program’s curriculum. This individual will help strengthen the Department’s and Program’s profiles in research, scholarship, and graduate studies, while furthering the Department’s and Program’s tradition of excellence in both undergraduate teaching and service to the University and the profession. We welcome candidates whose work includes a transnational or global dimension, who demonstrate innovative methodologies of historical research, and who think in an integrated way about environmental history and its place across disciplinary boundaries.

The Department of History features a distinctive graduate program focused on transnational history that offers both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Our faculty pursue interdisciplinary scholarship, and we welcome scholars with international backgrounds. The successful candidate in this search will also have the opportunity to participate in the College of Arts and Sciences’ interdisciplinary programs and research centers—specifically the Environmental Studies Program, as well as Global Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies; Asian Studies; and Africana Studies.