Green Job: Bowdoin College

From time to time, this blog will take a look at jobs in environmental studies, both those for graduates and those on the campuses educating those students.

A posting went up on Thursday for the director of the Environmental Studies program at Bowdoin College. The job board note says the post, which will begin next fall, is for a candidate at the associate or full professor level and adds this: "The director will hold a joint appointment in the Environmental Studies program and a department appropriate to his/her disciplinary specialization."

That's because at Bowdoin, which is based on a bucolic campus in Brunswick, Maine, environmental studies is not a standalone major. The college calls it a "coordinate", which means that it expects it to be pared with one of the school's other offerings. The environmental studies department's home page says that students have combined ES with majors from biology to women's studies.

For those interested, the job posting is here.