Assistant Professor of Urban Planning & Urban Geography (Tenure Track)

The Department of Political Science & Geography at Old Dominion University invites applicants for an Assistant Professor of Geography specializing in Urban Planning and Urban Geography to begin in Fall 2025. This is a 10-month annual tenure track appointment. We seek a geographer to teach existing courses in our undergraduate program in Geography whose research addresses urban planning and urban geography utilizing geospatial analysis (GIS) or GeoAI. This Assistant Professor will also contribute to expanding offerings in urban planning and urban geography.

The position carries a teaching load of three courses per semester. This may include teaching courses in the Bachelor’s degrees in Geography, in the specialized majors in:

The Department also contributes to the interdisciplinary undergraduate, Master's, and doctoral programs in International Studies and offers relevant certificates in Hazards & Emergency Management, Environmental Resources & Policy, GIS, and Spatial Analysis of Coastal Environments. The Department also offers a concentration in Geospatial Analytics in the MS in Data Science and Analytics and is proposing a MS degree in Geospatial Science & Technology, and opportunities exist to participate in ODU’s Institute for Coastal Adaptation & Resilience (ICAR), teach in the Spatial Analytics Instructional Laboratory, and collaborate with the expanding schools of Public Health and Data Science.

About ODU: Old Dominion University, located in Norfolk, is Virginia's forward-focused public doctoral research university with more than 23,000 students, a top R1 research ranking, rigorous academics, an energetic residential community and initiatives that contribute $2.6 billion annually to Virginia's economy.

Old Dominion University was founded in 1930. In preparation for our centennial anniversary, the institution initiated the Centennial Cluster Initiative, a hiring program designed to hire interdisciplinary clusters of faculty around emerging themes. As the first step of that initiative, we seek to hire 25 scholars who can contribute to the university’s growing research and teaching portfolio in the area of artificial intelligence. Those scholars will be housed in departments across campus and work together on scholarly activities related to artificial intelligence.