POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Tulane University School of Architecture and Built Environment (TuSABE) invites applications for a Research Assistant Professor (RAP) position affiliated with the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism (CCU) beginning Fall 2026 through Spring 2027. The position is designed to mentor an early career academic and researcher whose presence will advance the research mission of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism while contributing to the broader academic community at TuSABE.

This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to interdisciplinary research addressing critical climate challenges through design-based interventions at multiple scales. The RAP will assist in planning and executing a symposium on Material Strategies for Climate Adaptation planned for January 2027, and will co-edit a related edited volume. Additional responsibilities include contributing to the CCU’s research and programmatic activities.

ABOUT THE CENTER ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBANISM

The mission of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism within the School of Architecture and Built Environment at Tulane University is to advance a more holistic understanding of the role of the built environment in causing, mitigating, and adapting to climate change.

Through multidisciplinary research, CCU is tasked with providing and translating new forms of knowledge to support public, private, and civic sector stakeholders in their stewardship of the built environment. Through design studios, courses, applied research, and the dissemination of pedagogical innovations, CCU is invested in the education of the next generation of built environment professionals who are tasked with addressing climate change in all aspects of design, planning, management, and preservation.

By balancing normative design research with scientific and social scientific methodologies, CCU offers a unique platform for testing, experimenting, prototyping, validating, and communicating the opportunities for a more ethically responsible, socially just, ecologically sensitive, and environmentally sustainable future. With a geographic focus on North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, CCU is centered on advancing teaching and research on the cutting-edge of climate change scholarship and practice.

ABOUT THE TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND TULANE UNIVERSITY

The Tulane University School of Architecture and Built Environment provides global leadership through excellence in design, research, and practice in the built environment. The School includes undergraduate and graduate Architecture programs and several other allied programs and degree paths. Faculty members teach coursework and collaborate as appropriate to their expertise across the School’s programs including Architecture (B.Arch, BSA, M.Arch and M.S.ARC), Landscape Architecture and Engineering (MLA-MS RCSE), Real Estate Development (BSRE, MSRED), Historic Preservation (MSHP), Design (BADes), Sustainable Urbanism (BS SURB), Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (Undergraduate Minor), and Climate Change: Science and Practice (Undergraduate Minor). Other schools, programs, and centers at the University provide ample opportunities for interdisciplinary research and collaboration.

The School is recognized for robust initiatives in community-engaged design (The Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design), design-build (URBANbuild), interdisciplinary research studios, and research initiatives supported by the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism. Over the past five years, the School has experienced significant growth across all its programs, and in spring 2025, the School returned to its newly renovated home, Richardson Memorial Hall, complete with new studios, fabrication shops, classrooms, exhibition space, and offices. Located in New Orleans, Tulane University is a tier-one research university in the United States and a member of the selected group of top research universities integrated in the Association of American Universities (AAU). Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment is an innovator at multiple scales, from materials to buildings to neighborhoods and from urban landscapes to regional planning.

The City of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta are our natural domains of research, with the social and ecological challenges of this complex region at the forefront of contemporary discourses in global rural and urbanized territories, cities, and towns. The city’s culture and community is steeped in a long history of action and exchange. The University has firm commitments to build a welcoming community and foster opportunity, goals which the School pursues in multiple ways through curriculum, research, and practice. We are dedicated to serving society and to climate action, charting a path for climate change education across each of our representative programs, and recognizing that social equity and climate are interconnected phenomena that demand new approaches to the built and unbuilt environments.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

To be considered for the position, please submit the following documentation in PDF format through Tulane’s Academic Positions website :

• Current curriculum vitae (CV)

• Letter of Interest describing your research objectives and relevance to broader issues of climate change/adaptation/mitigation

• Sample work or portfolio of research and/or creative work (20 pages max.)

Review of applications will begin on 1 July 2026 and will continue until the position is filled. If applicants have questions or need assistance in completing the application, please email Adam Marcus at amarcus5@tulane.edu .

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