[ecrea] full-time tenuretrack Assistant Professor to develop communication scholarship with "big data" computational approaches.

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The Department of Communication at the University of Washington seeks a 
full-time tenuretrack
Assistant Professor to develop communication scholarship with "big data" 
computational
approaches.

Applicants' substantive areas of research and teaching must contribute 
to areas of strength in the
Department: communication and culture; communication technology and 
society; global
communication; journalism; media organization; political communication; 
rhetoric and
critical/cultural studies; and social interaction. Position requires 
experience in curation and
analysis of large-scale datasets related to one or more of these areas 
of study. Relevant research
skills include social network analysis, web and mobile analytics, data 
aggregation and data
mining, data visualization, and/or text and natural-language 
processing.Joining a growing
multidisciplinary community of social scientists, computer scientists, 
and humanities scholars at
the University of Washington with new analytical tools, the successful 
applicant will enrich the
field by developing theories and designing methods, techniques or 
applications to answer
important questions about communication.

The start date for this position is September 16, 2013. Candidates must 
have earned or be close
to completion of a Ph.D. in communication or closely related discipline 
by then. Applicants with
eXpertise in computational social science or digital humanities are 
welcome to apply.

University of Washington faculty members engage in teaching, research, 
and service. Candidates
are expected to conduct research, teach four courses during a 
three-quarter academic year, and
supervise graduate students at the master's and doctoral levels. The 
position involves teaching in
the Department of Communication's undergraduate and graduate programs. 
Candidates must
submit: (1) a letter of application that addresses research and teaching 
interests (on the latter
please indicate fit with current courses and/or suggestions for 
potential new ones); (2) a
curriculum vitae; and (3) three letters of recommendation. Application 
materials are to be
submitted online at http://com.uw.edu/facultysearch. Review of 
applications will begin
September 15, 2012. Inquiries should be directed to the search committee 
chair, Professor
Patricia Moy, at (pmoy /at/ uw.edu).

The University of Washington is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity 
employer. The
University is building a culturally diverse faculty and staff and 
strongly encourages applications
from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected 
veterans.


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Amanda Ma
Public Information Specialist
Department of Communication, University of Washington
Box: 353740, Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-2661



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