Career Center

The Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in Race and Rhetoric to begin on August 14, 2023. We seek a communication scholar whose research and teaching are in line with our scholarly emphasis in rhetoric and public culture and fit the goal of building a supportive inclusive and diverse academic community. Specifically, we seek a humanities scholar whose specializations may include but are not limited to research on race, racism, antiracism, Black studies, Latinx studies, whiteness, colonialism, neocolonialism, indigeneity, American Indian studies, borders and borderlands, or similar areas of inquiry. As a tenure-leading assistant professor, duties include undertaking and publishing research in high-quality outlets; undergraduate and graduate instruction; graduate advising; and engaging in service.

The candidate's scholarship should focus on race and rhetoric and would ideally be located at the intersection of our strategic initiatives which include Health and Well-being (individual/family/community health; promoting healthy behaviors, including through policy change; and helping persons navigate relational and structural challenges); Civic Engagement (facilitating civic engagement, mediating public controversies, and organizing for social change); and Identity and Difference (creating, maintaining, and challenging personal, social, and community identity in a complex and diverse world). We are particularly interested in a scholar who can build synergy between our strategic initiatives and our two departmental scholarly emphasis areas of Rhetoric and Public Culture and Interpersonal, Family, and Health Communication and whose work demonstrates a strong commitment to culture, identity, power, equity, and justice.

The person hired for this position should contribute to the department's interdisciplinary ties and, depending upon research foci, strengthen departmental connections with one or more campus strategic research initiatives (e.g., the Institute for Ethnic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Digital Humanities, Great Plains Studies, Nebraska Public Policy Center and interdisciplinary programming such as Humanities on the Edge and to the synergistic integration of humanities and social science scholarship).

As an EO/AA employer, qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and/or political affiliation. See https://www.unl.edu/equity/notice-nondiscrimination.