The Department of Urban Planning and Design and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) invites applications for faculty positions at the rank of Professor of Urban Planning with tenure, Professor of Urban Design with tenure, and tenure-track Assistant Professor/Associate Professor with specialization in spatial, geospatial, and data visualization technologies. 

In the pursuit of more productive, equitable, sustainable, and beautiful built and natural environments, Harvard University’s GSD offers a dynamic setting for the exchange of ideas across the fields of urban planning, urban design, real estate, architecture, landscape architecture, design studies, and design engineering. 

Composed of internationally experienced scholars and practitioners, the faculty of the Department of Urban Planning and Design explores the designed environment from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and points of view. The Department offers graduate degrees in urban planning, urban design, and real estate, and features a pedagogically diverse array of interdisciplinary studios, lecture courses, seminars, and independent research that consider practical and theoretical issues affecting cities and metropolitan areas globally. Roughly 200students drawn from around the world work together and with the faculty to create an intimate, engaged educational atmosphere in which students thrive and learn. 

The GSD seeks to attract and retain individuals who possess a quality of mind demonstrating high levels of intelligence, clarity of expression, analytical ability, critical judgment, creativity, and initiative. We also value individuals who support free inquiry and expression by others and constructive, collegial collaborations with faculty, staff, and students. In the school’s evaluation of candidates, desirable individual qualities and high potential are not substitutes for a record of academic and creative achievement. Accomplished contributions to the field through scholarship and/or design are essential to effective teaching over time. Continued study and investigation with public exposition of research and professional accomplishments are normal obligations for Harvard faculty members. 

For more information about our open faculty positions in the Department of Urban Planning and Design, please review the links below: