The Department of Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position in the area of North American Indigenous Environmental Relations at the Assistant Professor level, to begin August 2026. The Department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor with expertise in Indigenous environmental relations whose teaching and scholarship address relationships between one or more North American Native nations and their cultural spaces, places, territories, and/or ecosystems. The Department prefers candidates whose teaching and scholarship incorporate a historical lens. Candidates with demonstrated, ongoing connections with one or more North American Native nations, and those with potential to develop research that engages and co-creates knowledge with and for such communities, are particularly encouraged to apply. Exhibited interest in forging relationships with Indigenous communities proximate to the College is particularly desirable. Primary teaching responsibilities include contributing to our core sequence by teaching Integration & Application in Environmental Studies (ENVST 237), an interdisciplinary core course that challenges students to apply their environmental skills and knowledge toward community needs; a course in Environmental History; and elective courses in the candidate’s areas of expertise. Specialized areas of interest to the department include: environmental justice; native land, sovereignty and territory; traditional ecological knowledge; and Indigenous cultural resource management.