Cornell University, Department of Information Science

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2020

The Cornell University iSchool has tenure track and tenured faculty positions available at its Ithaca, NY campus. This search is primarily focused on hiring candidates who have a computational/technical focus on research areas within information science, including computational social science, network science, visualization, and technical approaches to HCI. The school is especially interested in candidates whose scholarship and service further the department’s goals around diversity and inclusion. Exceptional candidates in other areas related to the department’s research may also be considered.

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University of Washington Information School

Deadline: Nov. 1, 2020

The University of Washington iSchool seeks an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor (non tenure-track) in the field of Data Science and Social Justice. The school encourages applicants from all disciplines including computing, information, statistics, social and behavioral sciences, and race and social justice. As a highly multidisciplinary academic unit, the UW iSchool welcomes teaching faculty from all relevant backgrounds. The school is particularly interested in applicants whose work in Data Science has relevance to pressing social issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion - especially furthering racial justice, reconciliation, and repair.

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University of Michigan School of Information

Deadline: Oct. 1, 2020

The University of Michigan iSchool invites applicants for the U-M Presidential Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP). UMSI faculty members have a successful record of providing a nurturing and productive post-doctoral experience for Presidential Post-Doctoral Fellows. In keeping with the PPFP program, the school is interested in future colleagues who engage in research in the broad field of information and whose research addresses the needs of groups that have been historically underserved by academic research.

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University of Colorado Boulder, Graduate School

Deadline: Sept. 25, 2020

The Graduate School at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a non-tenure track senior instructor to serve as the faculty director of the Master of Science in Data Science professional graduate program launching in 2021. The faculty director will have limited teaching duties while serving in a leading administrative capacity. Your service will be carried out on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, Colorado beginning in the fall semester of 2020 reporting to the Dean of the Graduate School.

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University of Washington Information School

Deadline: Oct. 15, 2020

The University of Washington iSchool seeks a creative and energetic individual to teach the study, design, and development of information technology for the good of people, organizations, society, and the environment. The successful applicant will be expected to be 1) an engaged teacher and mentor, 2) an expert in one or more domains of information technology below, and (3) engage diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the context of teaching technical topics.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach and address sociotechnical issues in one or more of the following areas (listed alphabetically): Cybersecurity; Data Science including Analytics, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning; Databases and Data Modeling; Client-side and Server-side Web Development; Human-Computer Interaction and Design; Data Visualization; Mobile App Development; Networking, Cloud, and DevOps; Software Engineering.

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, School of Information Sciences

Deadline: Oct. 1, 2020

The iSchool in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s College of Communication and Information seeks a non-tenure-track Clinical Assistant Professor in information sciences to join the school's quest to "enrich, elevate and transform communities and the information professions through excellence in research, education and service." The initial appointment for this 12-month position will be up to a maximum of three years, with the possibility of renewal.

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University of California, Irvine, School of Education

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2020

The University of California, Irvine’s School of Education has an openign for postdoctoral research fellow in its Language and Learning Analytics Laboratory.

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University of Toronto Mississauga, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology

Deadline: Oct. 13, 2020

The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga has two faculty openings of interest to information scholars.

1. The school invites applications for a full-time teaching stream appointment in the area of Business Technology Management at the rank of Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream. Candidates must have a PhD in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computational Social Sciences, or a related field by the appointment start date, or shortly thereafter.

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2. The school also invites applications for a full-time tenure stream appointment in the area of Mediated Communication at the rank of Associate Professor. Candidates must have a PhD in communication, sociology, computational social science, network science, information science, or a related area.  

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University of Washington Information School

Deadline: Dec. 15, 2020

The University of Washington iSchool seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to teach and engage in research dedicated to designing, building, and/or studying interactive technologies for the good of people, organizations, society, or the environment. The school encourages applicants from all disciplines in HCI, including information, computing, engineering, social and behavioral science, and design. As a highly multidisciplinary academic unit, the UW Information School houses and welcomes HCI researchers from all relevant methodological backgrounds. The school is particularly interested in applicants whose work has relevance to pressing social issues, including strengthening democracy, improving the environment, promoting human health and well-being, or furthering racial justice, reconciliation, and repair.

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University of Borås, The Swedish School of Library and Information Science 

Deadline: Aug. 31, 2020

The Swedish School of Library and Information Science is now looking for a senior lecturer in Library and Information Science with a specialisation in knowledge organisation in digital environments.

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