Strauch Early Career Fellow

Overview

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University announces a position for an emerging scholar or practitioner with a keen interest in an academic career in architecture. The Strauch Fellowship is a nine-month, full-time position in the Department of Architecture and will be located in Ithaca, New York. The Fellowship is part of AAP's Broadening Participation Program, which aims to invest in early career scholars/practitioners for the purpose of developing robust pathways for diverse and impactful faculty in our disciplines. We invite applications from outstanding graduates with terminal degrees in the field of architecture, pre-tenure track faculty, lecturers, or teaching faculty who are engaged in advancing inclusion, equity, and justice in their disciplines.

The fellowship centers on research and teaching under the mentorship of a senior faculty member in the department. Responsibilities will be aligned with the experiences, skills, and knowledge that are critical in preparing Fellows for future academic success and will include presenting research and work at an exhibition, community lecture or panel discussion, teaching, and participation in departmental and college activities through their appointment. This is a salaried position with benefits and a stipend for research-related expenses.  Additionally, the fellow will have the opportunity to be part of a national cohort of other emerging scholars and practitioners participating in the Deans' Equity and Inclusion Initiative. The Initiative brings together over thirty-five leading U.S. schools and colleges of architecture, planning, art, and design, dedicated to creating a community of early-career faculty from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences, with attention to those underrepresented among the faculty in the field.

Department Details

Situated within a world-class research university, the Department of Architecture is home to two top-ranked, internationally renowned professional degree programs (B.Arch. and M.Arch.), as well as research-focused and post-professional master's degrees in Advanced Architectural Design (M.S. AAD), Advanced Urban Design (M.S. AUD), and a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD). The approximately 425 students in the department come from across the country and around the world, creating a remarkably diverse and intellectually stimulating academic environment. The department currently has 25 tenured/tenure-track/professor of the practice faculty with roughly an equal number of visiting faculty from emerging and/or established practices, or who are internationally distinguished scholars in the field.

The department's center of operations is in Ithaca, New York, where the resources and opportunities for innovative and interdisciplinary collaborations across both the college and the university are extensive. Physical facilities for Architecture are contained within three interconnected buildings situated on the campus's Arts Quad: historic Sibley Hall, the OMA-designed Milstein Hall, and the recently renovated Rand Hall, which holds the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library and state-of-the-art Material Practices workshop facilities.

The department also has fully integrated academic programs with facilities in New York City and Rome. In New York, interactions with Cornell Tech master's degree programs are growing quickly, and our extensive alumni connections in the city also greatly enrich the academic program. The reach and engagement of the department's students, faculty, academic programs, research initiatives, and alumni connections alike go well beyond New York City and Rome, and every semester there are strategic engagement initiatives in various locations and cultural contexts around the globe.

About the College

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University (Cornell AAP) is home to nearly 1000 students, 120 faculty, and 65 staff members who come together from around the world to take up some of today's most urgent challenges and advance research, inquiry, and design to build a more just and sustainable future.

A vital college at one of the nation's foremost research universities, Cornell AAP bridges fields and faculty with five departments, 20 degree programs, 18 faculty-led labs, and the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, a platform for building partnerships that make a positive impact in our cities and communities nationally and internationally.

Cornell AAP's departments include Architecture, Art, and Planning, as well as the new multicollege Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate, jointly led by the S.C. Johnson College of Business, and the multicollege Department of Design Tech, administered by Cornell AAP in partnership with Cornell Bowers CIS, Cornell Engineering, the Cornell Human Ecology, and Cornell Tech. The college is housed across three locations (Ithaca, New York; New York City; and Rome, Italy), each offering world-class facilities and cutting-edge technologies.

Cornell AAP is about acts of transformation. We are committed to building a caring, inclusive, and rigorous community around our shared priorities — Creative + Critical Practices, Sustainability + Social Impact, Design + Emerging Technologies, and the Future of Cities + Development — that enable us to reimagine and reshape the world in radically new ways, every day.

Qualifications

The Strauch Early Career Fellow in the Department of Architecture is expected to have a post-professional Master of Architecture or Ph.D. in Architecture. They will engage in research/creative practice, teach two studios and one seminar each year in their area of developing expertise, advise 2–4 thesis students each semester, and develop or partner on developing a community event or installation.

Required Application Materials

• Letter of application
• Curriculum vitae
• Draft proposal for research/creative practice agenda and related example of a proposed course, seminar, or studio/workshop
• A Statement of Contribution to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as per Cornell University guidelines described at https://facultydevelopment.cornell.edu/department-resources/recruitment/supporting-a-diverse-community/
• One portfolio (up to 20 pages) of research/creative practice (including student work from prior teaching) or a writing sample
• List of three references with telephone numbers as well as mail and email addresses; these references will be contacted only at a later stage of the process, and with the applicant's permission

Deadlines

All materials must be submitted electronically by April 7, 2024. Positions will remain open until filled. AAP will begin review of applications on April 1, 2024. The expected start date is July 1, 2024.

Benefits

• Salary $65,000 
• 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. 
• $5,000 research funds held in a department account and used within University policy and guidelines. 

Questions and Additional Information

Search Committee
Department of Architecture
139 E. Sibley Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-7301
607-255-0291
cuarch@cornell.edu