CTAHR/SOEST Faculty Hire in Hui ina Momona
The University of Hawaii at Manoa seeks to address compelling issues of
Indigenous Hawaiian knowledge and practices, including the legal,
economic, social, human relations, land and natural resource management,
and Native Hawaiian rights associated with malama aina through
collaborative cross-cutting research and training. To achieve this goal,
the University is announcing its strategic hire for tenure track faculty
in Native Hawaiian Natural Resource and Land Management, Economics, Law,
Language, and Studies. A consortium of scholars from Hawaiinuikea School
of Hawaiian Knowledge, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human
Resources (Natural Resources and Environmental Management Department),
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (Sea Grant College
Program), the William S. Richardson School of Law (Ka Huli Ao Center for
Native Hawaiian Law), and the College of Social Sciences (Economics
Department) lead this effort that will focus on key areas:
•Developing research, scholarship, and leadership across Native Hawaiian
Law, Economics, Natural Resources and Land Management, and Hawaiian
Language and Studies including legal document translation (and newspaper
translation), database creation, and land and natural resource planning
relating to malama aina; and
•Researching, developing, and disseminating information regarding Native
Hawaiian traditional and contemporary sustainability practices and the
legal, economic, and social regime that supports them.
The University of Hawaii at Manoa seeks outstanding candidates to fill
an open tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level.
Positions will be filled as early as the Fall Semester 2012.
This new position is designed to transcend traditional academic
boundaries and to focus on cross-disciplinary solutions to natural and
cultural resource management, sustainability, and food security issues
facing Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and other Indigenous
communities using traditional Hawaiian knowledge and practices. To
develop multidisciplinary training programs, one new faculty member will
have his/her primary appointment in the Natural Resources and
Environmental Management Department (75%), College of Tropical
Agriculture and Human Resources, and a secondary appointment in Sea
Grant College Program (25%), School of Ocean and Earth Science and
Technology. This position will be instrumental in developing the first
ever certificate program in malama aina in partnership with their
respective schools. In addition, the faculty member will spearhead
community partnerships to share information within and beyond the
University and to encourage Native Hawaiian and other Indigenous
students to pursue careers in Land and Natural Resource Management, law,
economics, Hawaiian language, Hawaiian Studies, and other key areas.
Review of applications will begin on June 19, 2012, for best
consideration, all application materials should be submitted by June 19,
2012. Send email to [email protected] with the subject line
Assistant Professor in Sustainable Watershed and Coastal Management,
with the following attachments: letter of application, CV, three (3)
names of professional references with contact information (address,
phone numbers, and e-mail addresses), licenses/certificates if
applicable, college transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate
schools attended (official transcripts will be required if invited to
interview), and a letter of support from an Indigenous community or
organization documenting the nature and extent of his/her work, impact
and benefit, and reputation in that community. For a job description,
please go to:
http://www.pers.hawaii.edu/wuh/Jobs/NAdvert/14742/1515968/1/postdate/desc
The University of Hawaii at Manoa is an equal opportunity/affirmative
action institution.
