[Commlist] Job Posting: Open Rank TT Sociotechnical Approaches to Cybersecurity @ University of Maryland iSchool

https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/74571

JOB POSTING
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE OF INFORMATION STUDIES

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Open Rank)
Sociotechnical Approaches to Cybersecurity
Tenure Track Full Time Faculty

Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s 
flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes 
away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, 
executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to 
business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a 
myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, 
and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic 
opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually 
limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University 
is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty 
and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three 
missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, 
the state of Maryland, and in the world.

As one of the top graduate programs in library and information studies 
in the U.S., UMD’s iSchool seeks a candidate who will build upon the 
iSchool’s record of educating librarians committed to leadership, 
service, research, and innovative practice and impact in the field. We 
encourage candidates to demonstrate how their research contributes 
toward social justice and equity, diversity and inclusion, or ethical 
access to information.

Founded more than 50 years ago with a specific commitment to advancing 
social justice, the iSchool enrolls over 1,300 students in five degree 
programs: Ph.D. in Information Studies, Master of Library and 
Information Science (MLIS), Master of Information Management (MIM), 
Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction (HCIM), and Bachelor of 
Science in Information Science (InfoSci). Faculty members across these 
programs take advantage of our interdisciplinary environment through 
their teaching and collaborative research. These programs are offered in 
the classroom at College Park and Shady Grove campuses, online, and in 
blended formats. Many members of our faculty hold joint or affiliate 
appointments with other campus units, including Anthropology, Business, 
Education, Engineering, English, Geographical Sciences, Journalism, 
Survey Methodology, Public Health, the Maryland Institute for Technology 
in the Humanities (MITH), and the Institute for Advanced Computer 
Studies (UMIACS)

Position Summary/Purpose of Position:

A socio-technical approach to cybersecurity recognizes that to protect 
our information and critical infrastructure we must consider human, 
social, organizational, economic, institutional, and technical factors, 
as well as the complex interactions among them. Creating, maintaining, 
operating infrastructural systems that are resilient in the face of 
threats that include malicious attacks, random vandalism, natural 
disasters, and information warfare necessarily requires fundamental 
advances in our understanding of the socio-technical aspects of 
cybersecurity.

The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, 
College Park (Maryland’s iSchool), invites applications for a 
tenure-track Assistant Professor, or tenured Associate Professor or 
Professor position in socio-technical aspects of cybersecurity. The 
successful candidate will engage in an active program of high-impact 
research; provide research advising to students at all levels; develop 
courses and teach in the College’s undergraduate, graduate, and 
non-degree programs; and engage in service to the profession and shared 
governance within the university.

Minimum Qualifications:

The successful candidate will have a strong interest in research and 
teaching related to socio-technical aspects of cybersecurity. Within 
this broad domain are a wide range of specific topics, methodological 
approaches, theoretical perspectives, and disciplines. We welcome 
applications from scholars interested in any socio-technical aspect of 
cybersecurity who are working with research grounded in theory, rooted 
in empirical methods, and producing broadly applicable and transferable 
results that augment policy, knowledge, and practice.

We seek exceptional candidates with high quality research and 
publication records in interdisciplinary fields that include or blend 
social and behavioral sciences, economics, science and technology 
studies, law, communications, informatics, information systems, and/or 
computer science. A Ph.D. or equivalent degree is required at the time 
of appointment.

Required Documents:
●Cover Letter
●Curriculum Vitae
●Research Statement
●Teaching Statement
●List of References (3)

Posting Date:10/25/2019
Best Consideration Date:*12/09/2019*

https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/74571

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