University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences

Deadline: Various, ranging from Feb. 23 to Feb. 29, 2020

The Illinois iSchool has the following openings: Professorship in the History of Libraries and the Information Professions (endowed, tenured position); Professorship in Preservation and Technical Services (endowed, tenured position); and Specialized Faculty (Tech Pedagogy); Specialized Faculty (Cyber and Data Vis).

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University of Washington, Information School

Deadline: Aug. 31, 2020

The University of Washington iSchool invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar to work with Dr. Chirag Shah on his project “Information Fostering: Being Proactive in Information Seeking”.

The project aims to build a proactive information retrieval (IR) system that will be developed through a series of studies and experiments. This work will involve collecting and analyzing data from user interactions, constructing machine learning models, building intelligent agent(s), and evaluating the resulting system using a lab study and/or simulations.

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University of Washington, Information School

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2020

The University of Washington iSchool invites applications for an Open Rank Research Faculty (Research Assistant Professor, Research Associate Professor, or Research Professor), non-tenure track position.

This position will be expected to engage in outstanding research that broadens and deepens our scholarly and social impacts in areas such as: civic media, civic engagement, information literacy, media literacy, information and communication technologies and development (ICTD), community informatics, digital democracy, digital geographies, digital youth, open data, misinformation, and public interest technology, among others. The school is particularly interested in scholars willing to apply these areas of study to the context of public libraries.

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California State University, Long Beach, College of Business

Deadline: March 30, 2020

This postion calls for a Ph.D., or DBA degree in an appropriate area of Business with a specialization in Information Systems from business school with the AACSB international accreditation. Applicants should have a demonstrated potential to teach effectively at the undergraduate and graduate levels in one or more of the following areas: Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Data Science, Enterprise Architecture, Systems Integration, and/or the technical areas of Information Systems .

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University of Michigan School of Information

Deadline: Jan. 31, 2020

The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) seeks qualified individuals as Lecturer III to provide instruction in Python programming and data science skills and techniques to students in our new Master of Applied Data Science online degree and in our other academic programs. The school expects the applicant to support courses, such as data manipulation, exploratory data analysis, data mining, and natural language processing. 

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University of Michigan School of Information

Deadline: Jan. 31, 2020

The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) is looking for qualified individuals as Intermittent Lecturers to provide instruction in their new Master of Applied Data Science degree. The school offers a part-time, remote (work from anywhere) in the US or on-site position. They expect the applicant to support courses such as data manipulation, exploratory data analysis, math methods, visual exploration of data, and experiment design and analysis. They desire candidates who are passionate about teaching and using computation and data science to build a better world.

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University of Tampere, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences

Deadline: Jan. 30, 2020

The University of Tampere iSchool  seeks a highly motivated and accomplished academic who will be an active and innovative co-builder of the research and teaching area of Information Studies. The final profile of the position can be tailored according to your specific expertise and can include for example the following themes: information retrieval; information search; information systems science; information interaction; information architecture.

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University of Kentucky, School of Information Science

Deadline: March 1, 2020

The University of Kentuck iSchool has the following openings:

Assistant Professor (requisition #FE02207): The iSchool at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level with an anticipated start date of Aug. 16, 2020. Teaching responsibilities for this nine-month appointment include topics primarily in information technology as related to the information science environment. This could include, but is not limited to, databases, user design/user experience, and web development. While not required for this position, experience with health information/health librarianship is preferred. Candidates are expected to hold an earned Ph.D. or be in ABD status in library science, information science, or a related field at the time of the interview. The Ph.D. is required by Aug. 16, 2020, for the successful candidate to hold the rank of assistant professor and begin the probationary period toward tenure.

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Assistant Professor (requisition #FE02207): The iSchool at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level with an anticipated start date of Aug. 16, 2020. Teaching responsibilities for this nine-month appointment include topics primarily in information technology as related to the information science environment. This could include, but is not limited to, databases, user design/user experience, and web development. While not required for this position, experience with health information/health librarianship is preferred. Candidates are expected to hold an earned Ph.D. or be in ABD status in library science, information science, or a related field at the time of the interview. The Ph.D. is required by Aug. 16, 2020, for the successful candidate to hold the rank of assistant professor and begin the probationary period toward tenure.

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University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information

Deadline: Jan. 30, 2020

The University of Pittburgh iSchool seeks a visionary leader and scholar for the endowed Doreen E. Boyce Chair in Library and Information Science. This individual should demonstrate inspired leadership within the information profession and have a commitment to dynamic, cross disciplinary and collaborative research. The individual filing this endowed chair will be internationally recognized for research, education, and service at the confluence of information, technology, and human behavior, especially from a social perspective. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, computing and information ethics, policy, and governance; theory and methods of knowledge reuse through data management, stewardship, and reproducibility; medical and health informatics, digital preservation and curation, modeling and decision making in interacting systems; as well as socio-technical systems digital equity, information seeking behavior in virtual and physical organizations and the nature of human interaction with information and data. Successful candidates must hold a PhD for this position as well as established impact and experience appropriate for appointment at the rank of professor.

University of Washington, Information School

Deadline: Jan. 5, 2019

The University of Washington Center for an Informed Public (CIP) invites applications for up to three CIP Postdoctoral Fellows who will be hired as Postdoctoral Scholars. UW CIP is a new multidisciplinary institute with a core mission aiming to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse. This is an opportunity to work closely with the Center’s co-founders and affiliate faculty, including sociologists, information scientists, computer scientists, and policy experts. 

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