Join us in Fall 2025!
We are hiring a full-time Lecturer Position in One Health to begin in Fall 2025
Who we are in the Environmental Studies Program
The Environmental Studies Program is a small interdisciplinary academic program within the College of Arts & Sciences. We are a team of 7 full-time Teaching Track faculty, 4 PT faculty, and a Tenured Director who is housed in one of our partner departments. We also have 2 current and 1 future faculty members with positions split with a disciplinary home department who contribute 25% or 33% of their teaching effort to environmental teaching and advising with our program. Our two full-time staff members include our Academic & Administrative Coordinator and our Community Engagement Manager. We offer one popular and robust interdisciplinary major and a popular interdisciplinary minor. We currently host one Ampersand Program in Environmental Leadership and will soon host a second Ampersand Program in One-Health. Many of our courses are interdisciplinary, small to medium-size enrollment, and feature active, collaborative, experiential, project-based, or community-engaged learning. We have strong partnerships with Office of Sustainability and Tyson Research Center to support student engagement with internships and research. We offer courses, projects, and paid internships with community partners through our Impact Internship Program and the Sustainability Exchange Capstone course. We have a strong networkw with collaborators in The Center for Environment, Living Earth Collaborative, Center for Humanities, and off-campus organizations, as well as in departments such as Anthropology, Earth, Environment & Planetary Sciences, and Biology. Our students are creative, inquisitive, interdisciplinarily-minded people who are passionate about working collaboratively to solve environmental challenges of today and tomorrow.
Position open: FT Lecturer in One Health
The Environmental Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a full-time, 9-month teaching track position at the rank of Lecturer in the area of One Health to begin in the fall semester of the 2025-26 academic year. A demonstrated interest in teaching at the undergraduate level as well as experience with current scientific teaching approaches is required. The applicant should be highly motivated to instruct, inspire, and mentor students early in their university experience. Responsibilities of this position include teaching an introductory course in One Health, an advanced course in environmental field methods, a capstone course in One Health, and co-leading a new Ampersand Program in One Health for a small cohort of first-year students. There is an opportunity to develop a course in local natural history or other topics of interest if desired. A full-time teaching load in the Environmental Studies Program consists of three courses per semester in addition to a service component.
View job description and apply hereCourses and Collaborators in One Health
<html><p><strong>Courses</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://enst.wustl.edu/one-health-linking-health-humans-animals-and-env… 250: One Health: Linking the Health of Humans, Animals, and the Environment</a></li>
<li><a href="https://enst.wustl.edu/field-methods-environmental-science">ENST 364: Field Methods for Environmental Science</a></li>
<li><a href="https://enst.wustl.edu/capstone">Capstone Courses</a> in Environmental Studies Program</li>
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<p><strong>Majors, Minors, and Special Academic Programs</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://artsci.wustl.edu/ampersandprograms">Ampersand Programs</a> at WashU for first-year students</li>
<li><a href="https://prehealth.wustl.edu/">Pre-Health</a> advising and support at WashU for pre-health and pre-vet students</li>
<li><a href="https://enst.wustl.edu/majors-minors">Major in Environmental Analysis</a> with EnSt Program</li>
<li><a href="https://biology.wustl.edu/major-requirements-related-programs">Major in Environmental Biology</a> with Biology Department</li>
<li><a href="https://artsci.wustl.edu/explore-academics/anthropology-major-global-he… in Anthropology: Global Health and the Environment </a>with Anthropology Department</li>
<li><a href="https://enst.wustl.edu/majors-minors">Minor in Environmental Study</a> with EnSt Program</li>
<li><a href="https://publichealthandsociety.wustl.edu/minor-undergraduate-program">M… in Public Health and Society</a> with <a href="https://publichealthandsociety.wustl.edu/">Public Health and Society Program</a> (Major coming in Fall 2025)</li>
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<p><strong>Collaborators</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://tyson.wustl.edu/">Tyson Research Center</a>, WashU's environmental field research station</li>
<li><a href="https://environment.wustl.edu/">Center for Environment</a>, WashU</li>
<li><a href="https://livingearthcollaborative.wustl.edu/">Living Earth Collaborative</a>, WashU/St. Louis Zoo, Missouri Botanical Garden</li>
<li><a href="https://hereandnext.wustl.edu/initiatives/school-for-public-health/">Sc… of Public Health</a> WashU (opening 2025)</li>
<li><a href="https://stlwildlifeproject.org/">St. Louis Wildlife Project </a></li>
<li><a href="https://stlzoo.org/conservation/saint-louis-zoo-institute-for-conservat… for Conservation Medicine</a> at St. Louis Zoo</li>
<li><a href="https://mdc.mo.gov/">Missouri Department of Conservation</a></li>
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