University of Portland, Communication and Media Studies
Critical Media Scholar (Tenure Track)
Institution Type: | College / University |
Location: | Oregon, United States |
Position: | Assistant Professor |
The Department of Communication Studies (pending approval to rename to Department
of Communication and Media) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track
Assistant Professor position in Critical Media Studies to begin August 2022. The
department invites candidates with expertise in critical and cultural media scholarship.
We welcome applicants with interdisciplinary strengths including multiple theoretical
and methodological approaches. This position is a part of a cohort hire in the disciplines
of Communication Studies, Biology, Political Science, Math, and Psychology. The
successful candidate from each department may also have the opportunity to be
involved with UP’s emerging and cross-disciplinary undergraduate Ethnic Studies
program.
Position description: tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with duties split
between teaching (3 courses per semester), research (both professor’s own scholarship
and developing research program for students, undergraduate and graduate), and
service (including academic advising and committee work).
Required qualifications:
• A Ph.D. in Communication or related discipline (by August 2022).
• Demonstrated teaching effectiveness, including teaching and mentoring diverse
populations.
• Demonstrated research/scholarship in Critical Media Studies or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience or ability in developing a research program for
students at both the undergraduate and Master’s level.
• Readiness to provide academic advising for junior and senior majors.
• Demonstrated engagement in service and leadership to department, larger
college, and/or field/profession.
• Demonstrated lived experience, knowledge, skills, and/or success in diversity,
equity and inclusion work within or transferable to higher education.
Preferred qualifications:
• Demonstrated interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and/or collaboration
• Experience in or knowledge of Ethnic Studies programs.
This Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the University of Portland all
are committed to diversifying our curriculum and our faculty, and to engaging in
ongoing, transformative, intersectionally understood anti-oppression equity work. To
advance those efforts, we are particularly interested in candidates who have experience
successfully engaging and working with students from historically underrepresented
groups in higher education, such as people identifying as queer, transgender, Black,
Indigenous, people of color (QTBIPOC). Successful candidates will demonstrate lived
experience, knowledge, skills, and/or success in diversity, equity and inclusion work
within or transferable to higher education; these should be described in the cover letter
and teaching statement.
Founded in 1901, the University of Portland is a private, comprehensive, Catholic
university with a mission of teaching and learning, faith and formation, service and
leadership. In the Communication Studies Department, we view our work aligning
with the University’s mission by developing the whole person to respond to the needs
of the world. Candidates should articulate their understanding of the University
mission in their cover letter and detail its compatibilities with their approach to
teaching, scholarship, and service.
Contact: |
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Website: | https://up.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobid=71779 |
Primary Category: | Communication |
Secondary Categories: | None |
Posting Date: | 09/22/2021 |
Closing Date | 10/15/2021 |