[Tps] Position in STS at U of C, Berkeley

[FrankFchr at aol.com]

University of California at Berkeley
College of Natural  Resources

Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Environment
This is a  tenure-track, nine-month career position in the Department of 
Environmental  Science, Policy,
and Management, Division of Society and Environment, and the  Agricultural 
Experiment Station at the
University of California at Berkeley,  available July 1, 2007.
The successful candidate will have an earned doctoral  degree in a relevant 
field such as (but not limited
to) the social sciences;  science, technology, and society (STS); the history 
of science and  technology;
science studies; environmental studies; or public policy studies.  An 
emphasis on emerging technologies
is preferred.

The successful applicant will be expected to develop a  nationally-recognized 
research program on the
interaction of science,  technology, and the environment. Candidates should 
have an interest in the  social
processes, ecological implications, and distributional and equity  impacts of 
science and technological
change. The candidate’s research should  explore the ways in which science 
and its applications – e.g.,
emerging  biological, chemical, energy, and nanotechnologies – both shape and 
are shaped  by politics,
regulation, and governing institutions. Questions of control,  access, and 
power should be core concerns.
Within this broad purview,  research topics might include: the implications 
of new technologies for  race,
gender, and class relations; technology, immigration, and the global  
economy; chemical technologies and
environmental health; the regulation of  transgenic organisms and 
nanoparticles; relations between
science,  technology, and governance; the political, ecological, and ethical 
aspects of  genomic sciences for
agriculture, forestry, and/or fisheries; the global,  regional, and local 
politics of science and technology
policy  formation.

The successful candidate will teach an undergraduate course on Society and  
Environment, a graduate
course in his/her area of specialization, and share  in teaching departmental 
lower and upper division
undergraduate  courses.
The incumbent will work to strengthen the campus-wide group of  faculty at UC 
Berkeley focusing on
science, technology, and society (STS),  and will engage public issues 
pertaining to the implications of
science and  technology applications on the environment. Applications must be 
electronically  dated or
postmarked by 15 October, 2006. 
 
Electronic submissions preferred; send pdf files to
_STESearch at nature.Berkeley.edu_ (mailto:STESearch at nature.Berkeley.edu) .
Please  submit a cover letter (including a statement of how you view the 
relationships  between science,
technology, and the environment), a curriculum vitae, a  writing sample or 
representative publication, a
statement of current and  future research interests, a statement of teaching 
experience and/or goals,  and
three letters of reference to:
Chair, Science, Technology, and  Environment Search Committee
Department of ESPM, Division of Society &  Environment
137 Mulford Hall
University of California, Berkeley, CA.  94720-3114
Refer potential reviewers to the UC Berkeley Statement of  Confidentiality 
found at:
_http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html_ 
(http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html) 
Applications  submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.
The University of  California is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action  
Employer.
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