Criminology (GIS and Spatial Analysis), Assistant Professor

About the role

The Department of Sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Criminology specializing in GIS and spatial analysis. This position supports the Criminology major and broader Sociology curriculum through teaching, advising, scholarship, curriculum development, and service.

Responsibilities

• Support the Criminology major and broader Sociology curriculum through teaching, advising, scholarship, curriculum development, and service.
• Teach high-demand courses in Criminology and Sociology, including Crime Analysis, Research Methods, Statistics, Urban Sociology, Quantitative Analysis, and Introduction to Criminology.
• Contribute to applied geospatial modules in existing courses.
• Develop GIS-related curriculum.
• Integrate applied geospatial modules into existing courses.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, or a closely related social science field from an accredited university.
• Specialization in GIS, spatial analysis, or geospatial methods as applied to criminology, public safety, urban inequality, demography, or related social science questions.
• Evidence of an active or developing scholarly agenda in criminology or a related field that uses GIS, spatial analysis, quantitative methods, mixed methods, or applied geospatial research.
• University teaching experience as instructor of record and/or teaching assistant.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with students, staff, and faculty from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Preferred/Desired Qualifications

• Evidence of ability to teach GIS, crime mapping, spatial data analysis, research methods, statistics, quantitative methods, crime analysis, demography, or other methods-intensive courses.
• Evidence of ability to teach courses across the Department’s curriculum.
• Evidence of teaching excellence through student evaluations, peer observations, examples of pedagogical innovation, or other evidence of a commitment to teaching.
• Evidence of experience using specialized GIS or spatial analysis tools, such as ArcGIS, QGIS, R, Python, GeoDa, spatial SQL, or related software.
• Evidence of an active scholarly agenda that can provide opportunities for undergraduate student research.
• Evidence of ability to serve as an academic advisor and research mentor to a diverse undergraduate student body.
• Experience with community-engaged, agency-based, public-sector, or policy-relevant research in criminology, justice, public safety, urban inequality, or related areas.
• Evidence of curriculum and/or program development experience, especially applied methods, GIS, digital humanities, data science, or career-readiness curriculum.
• Potential for interdisciplinary collaboration with programs such as Geography, Political Science, Economics, Urban and Regional Planning, or Architecture.