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http://www.washington.edu/admin/acadpers/ads/aa3166.html

Position Announcement - AA3166
Position Overview

Organization: Department of Communication, College of Arts and Sciences

Title: Assistant Professor

Search #: AA3166
Position Details

The Department of Communication at the University of Washington seeks
a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor to develop communication
scholarship with “big data” computational approaches.

Applicants’ substantive areas of research and teaching must contribute
to areas of strength in the Department: communication and culture;
communication technology and society; global communication;
journalism; media organization; political communication; rhetoric and
critical/cultural studies; and social interaction. Position requires
experience in curation and analysis of large-scale datasets related to
one or more of these areas of study. Relevant research skills include
social network analysis, web and mobile analytics, data aggregation
and data mining, data visualization, and/or text and natural-language
processing. Joining a growing multidisciplinary community of social
scientists, computer scientists, and humanities scholars at the
University of Washington with new analytical tools, the successful
applicant will enrich the field by developing theories and designing
methods, techniques or applications to answer important questions
about communication.

The start date for this position is September 16, 2013. Candidates
must have earned or be close to completion of a Ph.D. in communication
or closely related discipline by then. Applicants with expertise in
computational social science or digital humanities are welcome to
apply.

University of Washington faculty members engage in teaching, research,
and service. Candidates are expected to conduct research, teach four
courses during a three-quarter academic year, and supervise graduate
students at the master’s and doctoral levels. The position involves
teaching in the Department of Communication’s undergraduate and
graduate programs. Candidates must submit: (1) a letter of application
that addresses research and teaching interests (on the latter please
indicate fit with current courses and/or suggestions for potential new
ones); (2) a curriculum vitae; and (3) three letters of
recommendation. Application materials are to be submitted online at
http://com.uw.edu/facultysearch. Review of applications will begin
September 15, 2012. Inquiries should be directed to the search
committee chair, Professor Patricia Moy, at pmoy@uw.edu.