[Commlist] Job Opening University of California, San Diego - Media, Culture and Law/Just Futures

*_Assistant/Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Law with a focus 
on Designing Just Futures_*
*_Department of Communication, UC San Diego_*
The Department of Communication <https://communication.ucsd.edu/> at UC 
San Diego seeks faculty candidates at the level of Assistant/Associate 
Professor whose research, teaching, and service will advance scholarship 
and institutional solutions for designing more just and equitable 
systems and structures. We seek an interdisciplinary scholar, artist, or 
practitioner who engages with the study and design of laws and policies 
related to media, communication, and culture with a focus on Native 
American/Alaska Native/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Black, and/or 
migrant futures.

This search is part of a UC San Diego-wide cluster hire on Designing 
Just Futures <https://www.design-just-futures.ucsd.edu/> (DJF) that aims 
to recruit scholars, artists, or practitioners who can contribute to the 
advancement of design, social justice, and futures and seeks engagement 
across disciplines to address issues of territory, access and equity, 
and social and political debates pertinent to Native American, 
Indigenous, Black, and migrant communities, while also working within 
their home departments and professional communities.

Faculty hired under this initiative will join the UC San Diego Design 
Lab <http://designlab.ucsd.edu/> and the Indigenous Futures Institute 
<http://ifi.ucsd.edu/> to forge a new paradigm of engagement and 
collaboration 
<https://www.design-just-futures.ucsd.edu/indigeneity> that draws on the 
geographic, academic, institutional, and cultural strengths of our 
tri-national region across Southern California, Baja California, and the 
Kumeyaay region.

As a member of the UC San Diego Design Lab and the Indigenous Futures 
Institute, the successful candidate will center Native American, 
Indigenous, Black, and/or migrant people and communities in 
collaborative and shared efforts toward inclusive and justice-oriented 
design solutions to complex socio-technical problems. We seek an 
interdisciplinary scholar, artist, or practitioner whose work 
interrogates what it means to design, and whose work decenters dominant 
technocratic design practices in favor of interdisciplinary approaches 
informed by Native American and Indigenous Studies, Black, and/or 
migration studies in dialogue with critical race studies and critical 
legal studies. We seek a colleague who, likewise, addresses questions of 
how design engages with or raises critical questions about legal 
ownership, territory, and citizenship.

Areas of research and design may include but are not limited to the 
following: legal questions in genetics and health, for example as they 
relate to consent in genetic data collection and the ownership and 
management of digital genetic databases; the unauthorized appropriation 
of Indigenous, Black or migrant knowledge and culture, its relationship 
to conventional intellectual property laws, and its implications for 
envisioning alternative conceptions of law and property; questions of 
surveillance, power, and freedom that arise in Indigenous, Black and 
migrant interactions with digital technology; the questions raised for 
citizenship, territory, and sovereignty in both the breach and upholding 
of Indigenous, Black and migrant rights in treaties, laws and policies 
at federal, state, and local level; questions of justice that arise at 
the intersection between Indigenous, Black and migrant rights and 
disability rights, including conceptions of disability and access; 
responses to the challenges of environment and climate change, for 
example in rights to water and other resources, and forest management. 
In all these areas we are especially interested in scholars whose work 
holds promise for Indigenous, Black and migrant futures.
Candidates should have a JD, Ph.D, or other relevant terminal degree, or 
have advanced to candidacy at the time of application and completion of 
degree by the start date. Assistant-level applicants should have at 
least 1 peer-reviewed journal article or book chapter in a relevant area 
of the arts, humanities, or social sciences by start date. For 
Associate-level applicants, we expect either (1) a book published by a 
scholarly press with a rigorous peer review process, along with at least 
two peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters; OR (2) a portfolio 
of at least eight peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters by the 
start date.

As part of their teaching portfolio, faculty hired under Designing Just 
Futures will be expected to design and teach courses that align with the 
Department of Communication, the Design Lab, and the Indigenous Futures 
Institute programs.

The faculty member will advance UC San Diego’s commitment to the 
inclusion of Indigenous, Black, and/or migrant communities, anti-racism, 
anti-oppression, equity, and social justice. We especially welcome 
candidates whose professional experience, community engagement, and 
personal background have facilitated their understanding of and ability 
to better serve students from Indigenous and other underrepresented 
populations.

_Application and Submission Deadlines_

Applicants should apply by October 13, 2023 to ensure full consideration 
by the committee.  Applications will continue to be accepted until March 
23, 2024, but those received after the initial review date will only be 
considered if the position has not yet been filled.

For Assistant-level applications, click here: 
https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03665 
<https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03665>
For Associate-level applications, click here: 
https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03696 
<https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03696>
The Department of Communication and the University of California San 
Diego are committed to academic excellence and diversity within the 
faculty, staff, and student body. We seek candidates who will maintain 
the highest standards of scholarship and professional activity and make 
a strong and meaningful contribution to the development of a campus 
climate that supports equality and diversity.

UC San Diego was built on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay people. 
Today and every day, we honor their stewardship of this land and their 
tremendous contribution to our region. Land acknowledgements are an 
important gesture of collective recognition and accountability. But we 
also commit ourselves to action, to truth in learning and teaching the 
history of this place and its people, a reckoning with injustices, past 
and present, and a pathway forward that respects the dignity and human 
rights of all.

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