Cluster Hires
Cluster Hire for Tenure-Track Faculty
Cal Poly strongly values diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), in the classroom, in scholarship, and in service experience. We have shown a commitment to cluster hiring focused on DEI with several cohorts starting in 2017. In the 2024-2025 hiring cycle, Cal Poly is conducting a university-wide DEI-focused cluster hire – positions are listed below - all positions are designed to increase curricular coverage of areas related to DEI, as well as to promote inclusive and equity-minded teaching strategies across the university. Successful candidates will be expected to contribute to the university’s goals in these areas. Candidates selected through this DEI cluster hire will be given start-up funds to support their work in DEI and a dedicated mentor will be given upon appointment. Once hired, candidates will collaborate with their dean and others to develop a plan for utilizing these funds for supplemental compensation, assigned time, or professional development activities. More information about our past DEI-focused cluster hire cohorts is below. Please reach out to Dr. Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti (Assoc Vice President for DEI Academic Initiatives) and/or Dr. Simone Aloisio (Assoc Vice President for Academic Personnel) with any questions.
Hiring Positions
Position | College | Department | Status |
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Environmental Health (with a focus on Latinx/e populations) | BCSM | KINE and PH |
Posted
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African American Psychology | CLA | Psychology & Child Development |
Posted |
African American Politics and/or Policy | CLA | POLS | Posted |
Visual and Performing Arts Education (focus on Black and Latinx/e populations) |
Liberal Studies |
Posted |
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KINE and PH |
Posted |
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Environmental Justice and Sustainability (Latinx/e / Black focus) | CAFES | NRES | Posted |
Dir of General Engineering | CENG | Dependent on specialty | Pending Posting |
Criminal Justice or Social Work (with a focus on Latinx/e populations) | CLA | SOCS | Pending Posting |
DEI-focused University Archivist | Library | Special Collections | Pending Posting |
Metadata and Cataloguing Librarian | Library | Collection Strategies | Pending Posting |
Spanish Language Journalism | CLA | Journalism | Pending Posting |
*All positions have been approved by the Office of the Provost. Listings will update as positions are posted on our Cal Poly Jobs system. |
Meet our 2024 Cohort of Cluster Hires for the College of Liberal Arts
Curricular Theme: Migration and Immigration in Latinx/e Populations
Sergio Fernando Juárez (he/him/his)
Communication Studies Department
Degree: Ph.D. in Communication Studies, University of Denver
Research Interest: Critical pedagogies in university settings; Intercultural communication; Pathways to higher education; Immigration media and politics
G. Aron Ramirez (he/him/él)
History Department
Degree: Ph.D. in History, Yale University
Research Interest: Latine history, the twentieth-century US, urban history, the history of the political economy, and housing policy.
Melissa Manzanares (she/her)
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Liberal Arts Department
Degree: Ph.D. in Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Interest: International migration across the Americas; Labor experiences, labor violations, and human trafficking among Latin American migrants; Unpaid family labor, work-family conflict, gender
Jared P. Van Ramshorst (he/him/his or él/él/su)
Political Science Department
Degree: Ph.D. in Geography, Syracuse University
Research Interest: Immigration, Border and Immigration Enforcement, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Studies
Ivan Hernandez (he/him/his)
Psychology and Child Development Department
Degree: Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech
Research Interest: Social Justice in Engineering Design, Equitable Curriculum and Course Design, and Learning & Development in Professional Engineering Practice.
Daniel Rodriguez Ramirez (he/they/él)
Psychology and Child Development Department
Degree: Ph.D. in Social Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
Research Interest: Psychology of Social Change, focus on transformative change in abolitionist organizing and care work; Immigrant psychological well-being and the psychology of immigration; Participatory action research and community-engaged research
View Previous Cluster Hires |
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2023 CENG Cohort |
2022 CLA Cohort |
2019 University-Wide Cohort |
2017 CLA Cohort |