Department: Dean, Architecture and Design

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Description:

The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston invites applicants for their Emerging Scholar Fellowship.

The CoAD Emerging Scholar Fellowship is a research and teaching fellowship awarded to a promising scholar focusing on the history and theory of the design disciplines. The fellowship is addressed specifically to individuals who have completed postgraduate degrees or other rigorous research work and are advancing a career of teaching and research. The fellowship supports broad historical and theoretical inquiry regarding design and the human-impacted environment from any period or geography. Research agendas could center on architecture, interior architecture, industrial design, cultural landscapes, urbanism and urban systems, architectural or environmental technology, design media, and/or professional and disciplinary practices. We seek scholars whose work engages with under-represented subjects in the scholarly discourse or design of the human-impacted environment.

The Fellow will be expected to teach three courses per year. This fellowship includes teaching related to the candidate’s area of interest, resources for the development of research, opportunities to engage with scholars in the wider context of the University of Houston, and the potential to share the outcomes of the Fellowship within the College through lectures, conferences, or exhibitions. The fellowship is for a one-year term with the possibility of renewal for an additional year.

Candidates should hold, at a minimum, a postgraduate degree or equivalent with an emphasis on critical engagement with the history and theory of design. While a Ph.D. or other advanced scholarly degree is preferred, ABD candidates and candidates with strong track records in research and scholarship are encouraged to apply.

The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design offers its students a platform of integrated disciplines - Architecture, Interior Architecture and Industrial Design - from which to negotiate the complexities of contemporary practice. Our programs foster an atmosphere of creative critical inquiry into design culture and the social, cultural, and material contexts in which design is practiced today. Set in the fourth largest city in the U.S., Houston and its unique urban form and history offer an exceptional laboratory for exploring the problems and potentials of design in relation to the human-impacted environment.

The University of Houston is a Carnegie Tier 1 public research institution with a highly diverse student body, located in the heart of one of the most diverse cities in the nation. We welcome candidates whose experience in teaching, research, and/or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to excellence.

Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, statement of proposed research agenda (one page maximum), one proposed syllabus, a focused selection of scholarship, writing, and/or published work (10 MB max upload), and contact information for three references including telephone and mailing/email addresses. Shortlisted candidates may be asked to submit additional work if needed.

Applications should be submitted through the University’s online job site, https://careers.uh.edu/jobs/search/uh-postings

For further information or questions please contact: dramaswamy@uh.edu

Applications must be received by January 6th, 2025 for full consideration. The successful applicant is expected to start in mid-August 2025.

For more information about the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design please visit: https://www.uh.edu/architecture/