The Department of Geography at Ohio University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Visiting Professor position in Geography (with a focus on Geospatial Science). The Visiting Professor position is a full time, nine-month position for the academic year 2026-2027 (from August 16, 2026, to May 15, 2027).
This position is a 9-month position that may be renewable depending upon available funding, performance, and continuing departmental need. We seek an individual committed to excellent teaching, advising, and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.
The successful candidate will be selected based on their ability to contribute to departmental strengths and needs related to GIScience. Their resume and cover letter should clearly highlight the ability to teach courses such as GIS, remote sensing, cartography or geovisualization. Depending on their area of specialization, they will also teach one introductory geography course per year.
Any special expertise to teach niche geospatial science courses – such as web mapping, geodatabase design, open-source GIS, field data collection with diverse geospatial technologies, urban analytics, statistics, geospatial programming, geospatial data science or GeoAI – should be addressed in the cover letter. Prior experience teaching college-level courses is highly desirable.
In accordance with Ohio University guidelines for visiting faculty, the teaching load will be equivalent to seven 3 credit lecture courses per academic year (two semesters). All geospatial science courses are 4-credit courses with lab components. Many also have online sections supporting the online GIS & Cartography Graduate Certificate. These lab and online components will be factored into the course load calculation.
In addition to course instruction, the successful candidate may also be involved in mentoring undergraduate projects and master’s students.
The position also carries a service expectation.
There are no research expectations for this position, though funding is available for conference travel if a research agenda is pursued.
Department and University Information
Ohio University is a four-year R1 public institution with over 20,000 students located in Athens, Ohio, a well-known college town in the scenic Appalachian foothills.
The Department of Geography includes 13 tenured/tenure track faculty members, one instructional faculty member, 150-175 undergraduate majors, and 18-22 master’s students. It offers a range of undergraduate programs including Geography; Climate, Environment and Society; GIScience; Urban Planning and Sustainability; Globalization and Development; Environmental Pre-Law; Broadcast Meteorology; and Meteorology.
The department also offers three GIScience-focused certificates for on-campus undergraduates, graduate students, and professional online graduate students.
Geography is housed in the newly renovated Clippinger Laboratories, which includes a modern GIS teaching lab, the Geovisualization Center, the Scalia Laboratory for Atmospheric Analysis, and the Physical Geography Lab. A new Geospatial Laboratory is being developed with drones, VR/AR glasses, and high-end GPU-equipped workstations for advanced 3D and GeoAI modeling.
Learn more at: Geography Department | Ohio University