Emerging Scholar in Design

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture invites applications and nominations for its 2025–27 Emerging Scholar in Design Fellowship. This prestigious, two-year fellowship, commencing August 15, 2025, offers promising individuals at the beginning of their academic careers in architecture and its allied fields the opportunity to develop a distinctive body of work and to provides a unique teaching experience in the context of a supportive academic environment. The school is seeking a candidate that is highly motivated and positioned to integrate their scholarly trajectory with their pedagogical agenda at particular, self-selected scales and modalities.

Qualifications

The scholar will teach two design studios and one elective or support course each year. Teaching responsibilities may involve both graduate and undergraduate students. In addition to teaching, the successful candidate is expected to contribute to the school’s intellectual life by engaging in critical theoretical or creative work, which they will develop during their time as the emerging scholar and present to the SOA community in the last semester of their appointment in a public format, such as a symposium and/or exhibition, and a work-in-progress presentation around the end of their first year.

Position comes with a teaching salary, moving expenses, and research funding. For more about previous and current Emerging Scholars in Design, see https://soa.utexas.edu/fellowships

General Background

The University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest and most highly regarded public research universities in the United States, situated in its 11th most populous city, Austin, which is consistently ranked one of the best places to live in the USA. The School of Architecture at UT Austin offers professionally accredited degree programs in Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Community and Regional Planning as well as accredited post-professional and research degree programs in Sustainable Design, Urban Design, Historic Preservation, and Architectural History. The School houses one of the largest building-materials libraries in the United States, an extensive book Library, a Technology Lab dedicated to supporting research in AR/VR, drones, robotics, and digital fabrication, as well as interdisciplinary access, if arranged, to the University’s vast intellectual and research resources. For more information about the School of Architecture, its programs, and its people, please visit the website: www.soa.utexas.edu.

Application Instructions

Application deadline is January 15, 2025.

All application reviews will be conducted with materials submitted through Interfolio (link). Please do not submit hard copy materials.

To be considered for the Emerging Scholar in Design Fellowship, please submit the following materials through Interfolio, and a letter to the Search Committee Chair (see below):

• A Statement of Interest describing your research and teaching objectives for the fellowship
• A current Curriculum Vita
• A PDF Portfolio of creative work or scholarship, not to exceed 20 pages.
• Contact information for three References.

If you have any questions, please contact Professor Michael Benedikt, Chair, Emerging Scholar in Design Search Committee, at mbenedikt@utexas.edu.

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