Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Race and Rhetoric
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Application
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Posted: 13-Aug-22
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 80630
Requisition Number: F_220141
Department: Communication Studies-1080
Description of Work:
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.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
A Ph.D. in Communication Studies is required by the time the appointment begins.
Demonstrated ability to conduct an active program of research in rhetoric.
Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in race and rhetoric, courses in the general education program, and other courses relevant to the applicant's scholarship.
Demonstrated experience in, or readiness for, teaching upper division courses in Communication Studies and/or related subject areas.
Ability to advise graduate students, and engage in professional service.
Preferred Qualifications:
A track record of peer-reviewed publications.
Demonstrated success in, or potential for, securing internal and/or extramural funding, including but not limited to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Grand Challenges initiative (https://research.unl.edu/grandchallenges/).
With over 25,000 students, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a diverse educational insitution with international stature. The intellectual center for the state of Nebraska and beyond, we are a land-grant, top tier national research-extensive insitution. Part of the Big Ten conference, Big Ten Academic Alliance, our mission includes growing relationships and resources that enable the University of Nebraska to change lives.