Title: Assistant Professor
Search #: AA3166
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Position Details
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The Department of Communication at the University of Washington seeks a
full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor to develop communication
scholarship with ³big data² computational approaches.
Applicants¹ 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
master¹s and doctoral levels. The position involves teaching in the Department
of Communication¹s 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, (atpmoy /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.
If you have a question about the details of this search / position please
contact the hiring unit directly. Thank you for your interest in this position
at the University of Washington
