University of Kentucky iSchool
Deadline: March 1, 2019

As the chief academic officer of the College, the Dean of Communication and Information reports directly to the Provost of the University and is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the College of Communication and Information. A key member of the University’s leadership, the Dean must be an internal advocate for the College within the University of Kentucky and have the ability to work across disciplinary and college boundaries. The next Dean will bring a strong commitment to the recruitment, retention, and post-graduate placement of a diverse group of excellent students, as well as the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty and staff. Finally, the Dean will encompass a strong research background and the ability to successfully network with alumni.

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Michigan State University Department of Media and Information
Deadline: Jan. 3, 2019

The Michigan State University iSchool seeks an innovative, dynamic individual to fill a full-time, tenure stream position at the assistant or associate professor level who uses human-centered approaches to design and is interested in emerging technologies. The ideal candidate builds new things, such as VR, games, AV, IoT, etc., and seeks to understand the impacts of the things they build. Job no: 543608

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University of Missouri, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies
Deadline: Jan. 18, 2019

The iSchool at the University of Missouri seeks to recruit an energetic, highly motivated scholar who will contribute to the research, teaching, and administrative missions of the school in the MLIS, PhD, and certificate programs. We seek a candidate whose work complements current faculty research strengths in library and information sciences, and learning technologies. The ideal candidate will bring a high potential for grant funding in the areas of Human Information Behavior – specifically as it applies to professions such as journalism, medicine, nursing and engineering; Usability of Information Systems and Services, User Experience, and/or interdisciplinary information behaviors.

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iSchool and Communication, University of Arizona
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2019

The School of Information invites applications for a one-year contracted position for a Career Track (Non-Tenure Eligible) Assistant Professor, Library and Information Science. This position also serves as a coordinator for the Knowledge River Program. The position will begin August 2019. Knowledge River is the foremost graduate program for preparing librarians, archivists, and other information professionals to identify and address the information needs of Latino and Native American populations.

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University of Maryland, College Park iSchool
Deadline: Nov. 21, 2018

The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a focus on youth digital practices and emerging literacies. Though not required, we especially encourage candidates who study informal contexts with younger populations (i.e., children from birth to 13) to apply.The successful candidate will conduct research and teaching at the intersection of two or more of these disciplines: library science, learning sciences, Human-Computer Interaction, or information science.

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AI Now Institute at NYU
Deadline: Nov. 27, 2018

AI Now is hiring two-to-three postdoctoral researchers. For the 2019 cohort, the organization is specifically looking to appoint one postdoctoral researcher whose work relates to issues of AI, Gender, and Race.

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School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Deadline: Open until filled

The School of Information Sciences/ the iSchool at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for the position of a Post-Doctoral Scholar in Dr. Jana Diesner’s research group. The person will leverage and improve methods from Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Social Network Analysis (SNA) to advance theory and applications in the areas of emergency management, IoT, and responsible computing. This will be interdisciplinary research at the nexus of computing and social science conducted in collaboration with Dr. Jana Diesner and her lab.

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University of Michigan School of Information
Deadlines: Various, see below

The iSchool at the Unviersity of Michigan seeks applicants for the following openings:

• Social media assistant professor: The UM iSchool seeks a tenure-track professor at the assistant level in social media. Broadly construed, the research areas of interest include, but are not limited to: online harassment; discussion norms and communities; social support; social capital; information-seeking; misinformation and disinformation in social media channels; online civility; content moderation and regulation. Application deadline Dec. 29, 2018.

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• Faculty position in digital curation, archival studies, and scientific data use and reuse: The UM iSchool seeks tenure-track professors at the assistant, associate or full level in the multidisciplinary areas of digital curation, archival science, scientific data use and reuse. Broadly construed, the research areas of interest include: digital curation technologies and methods; discovery, representation and interpretation of archival content and collections; open science and scholarship; provenance of data, objects, images, archival records, and collections; integrity and user acceptance of digital archives; metadata and information organization; and the economics of long-term sustainability. The deadlien for applications is as far out as May of 2022; the school anticipates a multi-year search with the possibility of multiple offers.

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• Faculty position in archival and digital studies: The UM iSchool seeks a tenure-track professor at the assistant level in the multidisciplinary areas of archival studies and digital studies. This is a university-year appointment with an expected start date of September 1, 2019. The candidate will be recruited as part of a cluster hire that includes scholars from Communication Studies and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies who are working in critical/cultural humanistic and social science methods to analyze digital culture. This is a broad search open to researchers working in a variety of methods and concerned with the archive or archives and the power, social change, identity, and representation associated with those who are documented by others versus themselves and those who have the right to represent themselves and others. Application deadline: May 24, 2019.

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University of Missouri, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies
Deadline: Jan. 18, 2019

The iSchool at the University of Missouri seeks to recruit an energetic, highly motivated scholar who will contribute to the research, teaching, and administrative missions of the school in the MLIS, PhD, and certificate programs. The ideal candidate will bring a high potential for grant funding in the areas of Human Information Behavior; Usability of Information Systems and Services, User Experience, and/or interdisciplinary information behaviors. Search for Job ID 28424.

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Wayne State University
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2018

Wayne State University seeks applications for multiple new tenured/tenure-track faculty positions as part of the university’s multidisciplinary initiative in “Big Data”. The intent of this initiative is to build on existing strengths in research and curricula in Big Data and its applications in and implications for business, health, law, social sciences, arts, humanities, sciences and engineering. Up to 9 facutly members will be recruited.

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