Associate/Professor - Urban Planning and Policy

The Department of Urban Planning and Policy in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) plans to hire a tenured faculty member at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor. Candidates must have an earned PhD in urban planning or a closely related field and have an academic profile commensurate with a tenured faculty line. Successful candidates will teach a 2:2 load each academic year.

The Department of Urban Planning and Policy currently offers an undergraduate program (B.A.) in Urban Studies, and three graduate degrees: the Master in Urban Planning and Policy (MUPP), the Master in City Design, and the Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy. Established 51 years ago and comprising five specializations - community development, economic development, environmental planning and policy, spatial planning, and urban transportation - our MUPP program is one of the largest planning programs in North America. The selected candidate will teach in the department's undergraduate and graduate programs and is expected to develop a research agenda that advances the department's mission to critically address contemporary urban challenges and reduce social and spatial inequities.

The College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs was created in 1995 as part of UIC''s Great Cities Initiative. In addition to UPP, the college houses the Department of Public Policy, Management, and Analytics, as well as seven research centers: the Center for Urban Economic Development, the Government Finance Research Center, the Great Cities Institute, the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement, the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, the Urban Transportation Center, and the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement.

Position Summary

We seek a scholar whose research and teaching critically engages with community development and immigration in U.S. urban regions. The successful candidate will contribute to advancing equitable, community-engaged planning practices that support immigrant and migrant communities and address the social, spatial, and institutional challenges they face. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work focuses on one or more of the following areas:

Community development and immigrant integration: Including immigrant-serving organizations, neighborhood-based initiatives, migrant civil society, mutual aid networks, and grassroots forms of community building and governance.

Housing, health, and social service interventions: Focusing on access to and delivery of housing, public health, and/or social services in immigrant communities, including innovative or community-led service models responding to inequality, informality, and precarity.

Informal economies and urban livelihoods: Including a focus on informal activities such as street vending, day labor, and other livelihood strategies, as well as planning and policy responses to support economic inclusion and worker protections.

Policing, enforcement, and community response: Including research on immigrant communities' interactions with systems of policing, immigration enforcement, and surveillance, as well as community-based strategies of resistance, protection, and advocacy.

Duties & Responsibilities

Teach in the department's graduate and undergraduate programs with a typical teaching load of 2:2 per academic year. Develop a research program that makes an identifiable contribution to the study of urban planning, urban studies, or a related subfield. Participate in departmental governance and conduct service and outreach that advances the mission of the department, the college, and the university.Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.