NYU’s Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health seeks a one-year visiting professor in food systems or sustainability.  The NYU Food Studies program takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying food production and consumption, particularly in urban settings.  The program examines the complexities of supplying the city, including food distribution and transportation, water and waste management, and the rural/urban interface.  Policy and health issues are also germane to food systems.

Qualifications:  Doctorate in related field, teaching experience, record of research.  We are willing to consider candidates with a range of research interests, which may include: environmental studies; urban studies or planning with a concentration in the rural/urban interface; waste and/or water management; public policy (i.e., agricultural policy and urban markets); political or cultural geography; agroecology; landscape design with a focus on the northeast.

Responsibilities:  We are seeking candidates who can contribute to the NYU food studies program, particularly courses in the masters’ program food systems concentration.  The candidate will be expected to be an active teacher and to engage in the intellectual life of the program and the department.  The position is to begin September 1, 2010.

Applications:  Please apply online by providing a cover letter including a list of three references and their email addresses (letters are not required at this time), CV, related syllabi/course outlines, publications (as appropriate) to:  Food Systems Program, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, 35 West 4th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY  10012.  Information about NYU food studies can be found at:  http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/nutrition/food/ma

Apply online at:  http://www.nyuopsearch.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=50489

Applications due:  April 1, 2010.

New York University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building a culturally diverse educational environment.

We seek an established scholar with an excellent record of peer-reviewed
publications, grants, and teaching. Ph.D. in history, or a relevant discipline,
is required before date of hire. Preferred qualifications include expertise in
19th-century U.S. History; experience in graduate training and mentoring; and
experience in working on collaborative interdisciplinary grants.

The successful candidate will be expected to pursue an active research agenda
leading to publications in peer-reviewed scholarly venues; collaborate on
interdisciplinary grants and research related to environment topics, especially
with UA faculty associated with the Institute of the Environment; effectively
teach undergraduate and graduate history courses; advise and mentor graduate
students; and actively contribute to department, college, and university
service committees and participate in professional organizations and public
engagement.

The department seeks individuals who are able to work with diverse students and
colleagues and who have experience with a variety of teaching methods and
curricular perspectives. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action
employer, the University of Arizona recognizes the power of a diverse community
and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences,
perspectives and backgrounds M/W/D/V.

Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. To apply, please go
to http://www.hr.arizona.edu (job number: 44430), complete the on-line faculty
application, and attach a letter of application describing research and
teaching interests and experience, curriculum vitae with the names of three
professional references. To ensure consideration, candidates must apply to this
on-line posting. The additional materials – CV and Letter of Application- may
either be included with the on-line application, or may be mailed directly to
the Search Chair at the address below. Review of applicants will begin 2/15/10
and will continue until the position is filled.

Prof. Katherine Morrissey
Chair, U.S. Environmental History Search Committee
Department of History
Social Sciences, Room 217
P.O. Box 210027
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
(520) 621-1586 or 626-8429

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Canadian industrial landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky’s newest project, “Oil” has recently opened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, along with several related gallery shows in Amsterdam, New York, and Toronto. The Corcoran exhibit is on through mid-December, after which it will travel through 2011.

I was privileged to work as a Research Associate on this project for the past three years, and attended the exhibit opening in early October: the exhibit is fantastically curated and is a must-see for all envirotechies. It should be required viewing for just about everyone everywhere. The book (tome) that accompanies the exhibit is also worth examining if you can get hold of it. Dr. William Rees (University of British Columbia, and coiner of the term “ecological footprint”) has presented a thought-provoking essay on our relationship with oil, and Michael Mitchell (Canadian author and filmmaker) has supplied some great essays on the historical and social elements of the various “chapters” in Burtynsky’s project.

For those of you unable to make the trek to see the exhibit, you can find many of the images on Burtynsky’s site under “Galleries” or by checking the second Corcoran link listed below.

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/

http://www.corcoran.org/burtynsky/index.php – this link will give you the exhibit images: http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/press%5Fburtynsky/

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/10/03/burtynsky-oil-corcoran.html

The ICOHTEC-Prize is sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 3,000 Euro. ICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology, is interested in the history of technology focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history and all populated areas. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.

Eligible for the prize are original works in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish) in the history of technology (published or unpublished Ph.D. theses or other monographs — no articles or edited anthologies) written by scholars who, when applying for the prize, are not older than 37 years of age.

For the ICOHTEC Prize 2010, please send a copy of the work you wish to be con­sidered for the prize plus a 4500-word English summary of that work to each of the three Prize Committee members.  Your submissions must be postmarked not later than by 22 January 2010.

If the work is a PhD thesis, it should have been accepted by your university in 2008 or 2009; if it is a published work, the year of publication should be 2008 or 2009. The submission should be accompanied by a CV and, if applicable, a list of publications. Applicants are free to add references or reviews on the work submitted. Send a complete application by regular mail services (not electronically) to each of the following Prize Committee members:

Thomas Kaiserfeld, Prize Committee Chairperson (Email: thomas@kth.se)
Department of History of Science and Technology
Royal Institute of Technology
S-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden

Rebecca Herzig (Email: rherzig@bates.edu)
Program in Women and Gender Studies
209 Pettengill Hall
Bates College
Lewiston ME 04240
USA

Dick van Lente (Email: vanlente@fhk.eur.nl)
Prinses Margrietlaan 7
3051 AM Rotterdam
The Netherlands ]]> http://envirotechweb.org/2009/10/29/2010-icohtec-prize/feed/ 0 http://envirotechweb.org/2009/06/30/new-book-colten/ http://envirotechweb.org/2009/06/30/new-book-colten/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:52:27 +0000 Finn Arne Jørgensen http://envirotechweb.org/?p=196 The University Press of Mississippi will release Craig Colten’s new book, Perilous Place, Powerful Storms:  Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana in July 2009.

The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans when Katrina roared on shore in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering hubris, excruciating delays, and social conflict. In Perilous Place, Powerful Storms, Craig E. Colten traces the protracted process of erecting massive structures designed to fend off tropical storms and examines how human actions and inactions left the system incomplete on the eve of its greatest challenge.

For more information see: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1177

Starting in August 2009, the Center will award about a dozen fellowships per year to scholars from around the globe and from a variety of disciplines. Research and writing of applicants should pertain to one or more of the topics that will be at the core of the Center’s 2009-2011 agenda:

• Natural Disasters and Cultures of Risk
• Knowledge and Knowledge Societies
• Agrarian and Post-Agrarian Landscapes

The fellowship will usually be granted for periods of six, nine or twelve months. They can also be granted for a shorter duration or be broken up into several three-month periods.

Fellows are expected to be in residence in Munich and to work on a major research project as well as to engage with other Carson fellows, and to contribute to programs at the Center. The Carson Center will pay a fellowship that is commensurate with experience and current employment. Alternatively, it will pay for a replacement of the successful candidate at his or her home institution.

The Center will provide office space, access to some of the best libraries in Europe, research assistance, help with accommodation, and generally do everything in its power to make the tenure in Munich a pleasant and productive one.

The first deadline for applications is April 30, 2009. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, project description (2,500 words maximum), and three references. While applicants may write in either English or German, we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. Please send applications in either PDF or Word format via email to CarsonCenter@lrz.uni-muenchen.de or via mail to Rachel Carson Center, Schellingstr. 9, 80799 München, Germany

The appointees’ research programmes must be clearly linked to the research area of science, technology and environment studies, i.e. culture studies research on science, technology and the environment, relations between these areas and society as a whole. (www8.umu.se/humfak/forskning/vtm.html). One of the appointments is directed mainly towards science and technology (dnr 312-138-09); the other mainly towards the environment (dnr 312-139-09).

By way of example, the research programmes could focus on the following areas: science and communication, biofuel and climate policy, agricultural sciences, research policy and research organisation, biomedicine and genetic engineering, debates on the environment and views on natural resources, science and industry. These areas embrace main fields of study such as the history of science, environmental history, the history of technology and the history of medicine, all specialisations within the cross-disciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS), and environmental research within the arts/research on sustainable development.

The appointees will work in collaboration with other ongoing research and post-graduate programmes within the field of these appointments and will actively promote international collaboration within the research area.

The appointment as associate senior lecturer is for four years but can be extended by two years for further research. See also the Higher Education Ordinance Chapter 4 Sections 8a, 13a. The place of work for the appointments is Umeå.

Qualification requirements for the appointment are stated in Chapter 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance. Priority will be given to candidates who have completed their degree no more than five years before the last date for application.

Because a long-term strengthening of research is an urgent priority of the Faculty of Arts, academic skills, the ability to analyse and work independently, and the candidate’s potential to develop within relevant subject areas are the most important factors for the appointment. Candidates must be able to conduct innovative and significant research, independently and successfully, thereby contributing to new knowledge within his/her field of research. Candidates must have an international grounding for their research, have a forward-looking view of the development of his/her subject area, and have an explicit strategy for the publication of work.

At least one long stay in a research environment abroad of relevance for the project is required. This stay abroad must be integrated into the research plan and preliminary contacts should already have been made with the intended place.

Assessment for the appointment shall be based on the degree in which a candidate possesses the skills required to qualify for appointment. Special weight shall be accorded to academic skills. Moreover, regard shall be paid to the degree in which a candidate possesses administrative and other skills of importance, taking into account the subject matter, the degree in which a candidate possesses skills in developing and managing activities and staff at the university, and aptitude in interacting with the surrounding community. Other assessment grounds are the candidate’s ability to procure external funding and an explicit plan for internationalisation.

The appointments comprise 75 % research and 25 % teaching including research coordination, networking and the development of seminars within the field of science, technology and environment studies.

With the application, you must attach an attested list of qualifications, a brief written account of your teaching and academic achievements, and other documents you wish to refer to. For more information, see: www.umu.se/personal/umu_internt/anstallningsordning.htm

For further information, contact docent Christer Nordlund, tel + 46 (0)90- 786 97 33 christer.nordlund@histstud.umu.se.

For trade union information, contact SACO, tel + 46 (0)90-786 53 65, SEKO, tel + 46 (0)90-786 52 96 and ST, tel + 46 (0)90-786 54 31.

If you are applying for several positions with different registration numbers, you must submit one application for each position.

Your application, marked with the respective registration number (dnr) must be submitted to Umeå universitet, Registrator, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden, latest 2 April 2009.

If you or someone you know has published a deserving article in 2008 dealing with any aspect of the history of electricity, electronics, telecommunications, or any other electrically-related field — please consider nominating it for the IEEE Prize.

THE IEEE LIFE MEMBERS’ PRIZE IN ELECTRICAL HISTORY

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Life Members’ Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life
Members’ Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), is awarded annually to the best paper in the
history of electrotechnology –power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science –published during the preceding year. Any
article published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners.
The article must be written in English, although the journal or periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication.
The prize consists of a cash award of $500 and a certificate. To nominate an article, please send a copy (paper or electronic) of the
article to each member of the prize committee. Deadline for the 2008 prize is April 15, 2009.

For more information, please contact the committee chair.

Robert MacDougall (committee chair)
Department of History
University of Western Ontario
Social Science Centre 4328
London, Ontario N6A 5C2
CANADA
rmacdou@uwo.ca

Susan Schmidt Horning
Department of History
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
schmidts@stjohns.edu

Andrew J. Butrica
P.O. Box 30223
Bethesda, MD 20824-0223
abutrica@earthlink.net

Distinguished Fulbright chair in US Environmental History / AMERICAN STUDIES

Grant Activity: The grantee would be asked to teach one 4 hour course at the MA level each term, plus one BA level course in the fall term. In the spring term, two hours would be given over to advising of students and to play a central role in organizing a major academic conference. University of Southern Denmark (SDU) will defray the costs of that conference. At the undergraduate level, courses taught are within the fields of American history, literature, and politics, as well as American Studies. At the graduate level, the MA degree in American Studies has a mix of electives and required seminars. The teaching load is 6 hours per week each term. The format is a mix of seminars, lectures, discussions, presentations and oral reports. The average course size varies according to level: graduate courses usually have 15-25 students, and undergraduate level classes have a maximum of 35 students. Students purchase their own books, which may be supplemented by materials placed on the intranet program “Blackboard.”

Specialization(s): A scholar in Environmental History or American Studies focused on the environment.

Additional Qualifications: Ph.D. and at least 6 years of teaching experience required. Aadvanced associate professor or full professors preferred.

Location(s): Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark-Odense

Length of Grant: 10 months
Starting Date: September 1, 2010

Comments: The Center would like to involve the Fulbright Scholar primarily in the education of its c. 45 MA students. There are also possible research opportunities. The Center is currently involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects and the Chair would be invited to participate in these projects as well as a number of conferences and seminars the Center organizes each year. The Dean has set aside funding for a conference whose theme and participants will be shaped in a dialogue between the grantee and the faculty. The Chair will have access to a wide range of electronic journals, the university library and the Royal Library. Therefore, it will be possible to continue working on major projects. The scholar will be given an e-mail address and will have access to the usual electronic resources. Office space is provided. Some secretarial assistance is available. The university library is fully computerized and books can be ordered from any computer. In addition, American journals are available in full text format through any computer within the university network. It is possible to use PowerPoint, DVD etc. Housing will be found for the scholar and decided upon after consultation with the scholar. The cost per month including utilities is approximately $1,000-$1,500.

Application Deadline: August 1, 2009

For more information, contact:

Professor David E. Nye
Center for American Studies
SDU – Odense
Odense 5230 M
Denmark