Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Data Analytics

Overview

The Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Data Analytics to begin on July 1, 2025. 

Cities and regions around the world are exploring the potential of data-driven urban analytics and new digital technologies to transform how places are planned, built, and governed. These technologies address our diverse urban challenges, from facilitating mobility, adaptation of legacy infrastructure systems, public participation, and scenario planning to respond to climate change and inequality. Urban planners must grapple with the possibilities, risks, and ethics of these new methods of analysis and technologies. We seek scholars who simultaneously engage both with the technological (e.g., AI, augmented reality, cloud computing, geomatics, digital twins, crowd-sourced data) and the social (e.g., activist-led data generation, counter-mapping, privacy, fairness, etc.). We seek a scholar with expertise in data analytics (generation, classification, analysis, implementation) at the intersection of urban planning, urban studies, urban policy, and economic development. We are particularly interested in scholars who employ rigorous and critical theoretical approaches with innovative data science methods and tools to analyze the most pressing issues facing cities and regions in the United States and/or across the world.

Department Details

The Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) at Cornell University provides a dynamic, rigorous, and supportive context for addressing the most urgent planning questions of our time. Our faculty and students plan for a sustainable future, confront inequality, transform the built environment, engage communities, and re-imagine planning by reflecting on theories, practices, contradictions, and politics.

As part of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, CRP is a top-ranked planning department with 120 undergraduate majors (BS-Urban and Regional Studies), 110 master's degree students in programs in City and Regional Planning (accredited M.R.P.), Historic Preservation Planning (M.A.), and Regional Science (M.S.), and 22 Ph.D. students in City and Regional Planning and Regional Science. The department, with a full-time faculty of 20, draws students from across the U.S. and the world and is one of the premier programs for U.S. and international planning. CRP also supports dual degrees with Cornell programs in Landscape Architecture and Real Estate. Situated on Cornell University's main campus in Ithaca, NY, the department offers semester-long programs in New York City and Rome, Italy. The new faculty member will have the opportunity to engage with faculty and programming at the Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

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 critical 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.

The college includes departments of 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.

Qualifications

Successful applicants for this position must demonstrate high quality research through publishing and obtaining grants, excellence in teaching and advising, as well as professional engagement in the urban environment in the U.S. and/or internationally. Applicants should have a Ph.D. or an equivalent terminal degree in city and regional planning, urban data science, geography, or another relevant field. Candidates for this position should be prepared to teach a combination of core and elective courses in the department's degree programs. The regular teaching load is three courses per year. The salary range for the position is $85,000 to $110,000, commensurate with the candidate's experience.

Required Application Materials

• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of application
• Statement of research and teaching interests
• Statement of contribution to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Writing sample
• List of three references and contact information. These references will be contacted only for the later stages of the search and with the applicant's permission

Deadlines

Applications will be reviewed from November 30, 2024, until an adequate pool of candidates for the position has been identified.

All applicants should submit their materials electronically to Academic Jobs Online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29102 .

Benefits

A generous benefits package includes start-up research funds, educational benefits, access to wellness programs, employee discounts, health care options, generous paid leave provisions, and excellent retirement contributions. Cornell has been nationally recognized as an award-winning workplace for health, well-being, sustainability, and diversity initiatives.

Diversity and inclusion are a part of Cornell University's heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

Cornell is committed to hiring faculty who share its commitment to educating and pursuing knowledge for any person in any study. We require that every applicant for an academic appointment provide a Statement of Contribution to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This statement offers candidates an opportunity to describe their potential contributions to diversity and inclusion at Cornell and our legacy of ". . . any person . . . any study." Candidates are also invited to connect their contributions to Cornell's role as a land-grant institution, enabling community improvement through research and teaching.

Questions and Additional Information

Further information about the Department of City and Regional Planning and its students, alums, and faculty, and the CIVIC initiative may be found at the following links:

https://aap.cornell.edu/academics/crp

Additional questions may be addressed to:
crpinfo@cornell.edu