The Department of Landscape Architecture in the Division of Architecture and Design invites applications for a one-year, full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Residence, beginning in Fall 2025.

RISD recognizes principles of social equity, inclusion, and diversity as fundamental to its academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require ongoing attention to difference and expansion of the forms of knowledge from which our curricula originate. RISD is engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value applicants whose pedagogical and professional experiences have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We encourage applicants whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) centers on bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. We are eager to welcome applicants who can help advance the institution's social equity, inclusion, and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and long standing, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, and first-generation college students.

We seek candidates who are accomplished designers with a clear and compelling research agenda that advances the field of landscape architecture and aligns with our curriculum. Candidates should be prepared to teach across a range of foundational and advanced graduate-level courses, including site engineering and grading, history and theory, site design and urban planning studios, and open thesis research and design studio.

The department seeks candidates with a master's degree or higher in landscape architecture. Applicants must demonstrate excellence in teaching graduate-level students, with a minimum of one year of full-time or three years of part-time teaching experience. Strong interpersonal skills, clarity, generosity, and creativity in both personal practice and teaching are essential.

Candidates must also be able to support a culturally diverse student body, with a range of backgrounds and experience in developing their design and leadership skills.

Successful candidates will demonstrate a clear understanding of how their work can enhance the unique opportunities of teaching landscape architecture within an art and design school. All candidates are expected to have a defined research agenda or design practice that aligns with the mission and focus of the Landscape Architecture Department at RISD. This may be evidenced through academic publications, organized symposia, curated exhibitions, installations, and/or significant built work.

Experience with collaborative teaching or working effectively in team settings would be a valuable addition to the application and/or letters of support.