JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)
August 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027
Catawba College
Position Title/Short Description
Section: US: Full-Time Academic (Permanent, Tenure Track or Tenured)
Location: Salisbury, North Carolina, UNITED STATES
JEL Classifications:
P -- Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems
Q -- Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics
R -- Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics
Keywords:
Full Text of JOE Listing:
Assistant Professor of Economics – Environmental Economics and Sustainability
The Ketner School of Business at Catawba College, ranked No. 1 among Regional Colleges in the South by U.S. News & World Report (2027), invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Economics in environmental economics and sustainability, beginning August 2027. Catawba is a carbon-neutral liberal arts college in Salisbury, North Carolina, near Charlotte, with an endowment of $580 million.
We welcome candidates in environmental, natural resource, energy, climate, or ecological economics, sustainable development, or related applied fields. The position joins a strategic cluster hire embedding sustainability across the curriculum, with the College's 189-acre ecological preserve serving as a living learning laboratory. Responsibilities include teaching Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, developing upper-level courses in environmental and sustainability economics, opportunities to teach in the MBA program, advising, scholarship, and service. The teaching load is 24 credit hours per year.
A Ph.D. in Economics or closely related field is expected by the time of appointment; ABD candidates nearing completion will be considered.
Send a letter of application, CV, teaching statement, up to three examples of scholarship, and contact information for three references to econ26search@catawba.edu. Review of applications is underway.
Full position description: https://www.catawba.edu/hr/
Application Requirements:
- Application Instructions Below
Application Instructions:
A letter of application;
Curriculum Vitae;
A statement of teaching philosophy (including evidence of teaching effectiveness, if available);
Evidence of scholarship (maximum of three examples); and
Contact information for three (3) professional references; references will not be contacted until candidates have successfully advanced through the initial stages of the selection process.
A letter of application;
Curriculum Vitae;
A statement of teaching philosophy (including evidence of teaching effectiveness, if available);
Evidence of scholarship (maximum of three examples); and
Contact information for three (3) professional references; references will not be contacted until candidates have successfully advanced through the initial stages of the selection process.