Category: Job Ads

School for International Training: Multiple Positions (International)

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Multiple faculty and administrative positions, School for International Training and/or World Learning, Inc., Brattleboro, VT, USA. Deadlines: Various. 

The School for International Training (SIT) and their parent organization, World Learning, Inc., both based in Brattleboro, VT, USA, are advertising for multiple positions, some academic and others administrative, around the world. SIT Study Abroad Academic Directors manage SIT’s undergraduate study abroad programs located in 42 countries worldwide. The program themes vary from development and social change to arts, environmental studies, post-conflict transformation, health, and human rights. All SIT Study Abroad programs emphasize field study while examining critical global issues in keeping with the broader organizational missions of peace and social justice. SIT’s educational model focuses on cultural immersion as its primary heuristic component and uses theories of experiential education to inform its curricula and augment student learning. The academic centerpiece of most SIT Study Abroad semester programs is the independent study project. This component weaves together theory and practice and synthesizes the other program coursework. Specific positions available at this writing include: Academic Director – Chile; Academic Director – Senegal; Academic Director – Tunisia; several program coordinators in Iraq; program officers in Washington, DC; and traveling faculty positions in food, human rights, health, climate, and cities).

Utrecht U: Intercultural Communication (Netherlands)

“JobChair (Full Professor) of Intercultural Communication, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Deadline: November 7, 2021.

Utrecht University is looking to fill the Professorship of Intercultural Communication (ICC). The Chair is positioned in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication of the Faculty of Humanities. The department focuses on the study of Western European languages and cultures in a global context. The research domain of the Chair lies within the broad field of multilingualism, focusing on the linguistic interaction between speakers from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in diverse and inclusive societies. The Chair plays a leading role in the department’s research in ICC, which intertwines the fields of linguistics (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics) and cultural and literary studies (Institute for Cultural Enquiry). The Chair is responsible for the one-year ICC Master’s program, which attracts around 50 students a year. The Chair maintains close relations with colleagues in all language sections (German, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Language & Communication) of the department.

U of Stavanger: Diversity and Inclusion in Early Childhood & Schools (Norway)

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Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway. Deadline: November 1, 2021.

 

The University of Stavanger invites applicants for a position as Postdoctoral Fellow who will conduct and disseminate  systematic research reviews on diversity and inclusion in early childhood and / or schools at the Faculty of Arts and Education, Knowledge Centre for Education. The position is vacant from 01.01.2022. The Knowledge Centre for Education is part of the knowledge ecology of Norway, mandated:

  1. to carry out research syntheses for the whole education sector – from Early Childhood through Higher education, for practitioners, researchers and policymakers;
  2. to disseminate research syntheses in ways that enable engagement and understanding;
  3. to increase knowledge about systematic syntheses of research – their relevance, their use, and how to do systematic research reviews and syntheses;
  4. to contribute to enhanced use of research in policy and practice.

The objective of the position is to strengthen research, and to give researchers/scholars holding a doctoral degree the opportunity for further qualification toward top academic positions.

Loyola Marymount: Intercultural Communication (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, Communication Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Deadline: November 1, 2021.

The Communication Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles seeks applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in the area of Intercultural Communication, beginning Fall 2022.

This position requires expertise in the field of intercultural communication in a global context. LMU is particularly interested in candidates whose teaching and research can inform our understanding of issues of race, ethnicity, culture, identity, nationality, and transnationality.

U Utah: Race & Communication (USA)

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Assistant Professor in Race and Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Deadline: Review begins October 15, 2021, but open until filled.

The University of Utah’s Department of Communication, located in the College of Humanities, seeks a scholar whose research, teaching, and service expertise in race and communication complements and expands our existing strengths in Critical Cultural Studies; Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk; Digital Media; and Rhetoric.

They invite applications for this tenure-track position from scholars and scholar-activists who have an outstanding research record (or the promise of such a record) in areas of communication focused on race and ethnicity theoretically anchored by frameworks that may include Chicanx and Latinx; Mestiza consciousness; critical race and post-colonial inquiry; Middle Eastern, South Asian, or African studies; Pacific Islander; indigeneity; intersectionality. The successful applicant may also study race and communication in myriad contexts such as sport; science and technology; media, popular culture, or digital media; public health; environmentalism; globalization. They invite applicants who will innovatively expand the Department, including those who diverge from the parameters of the position description.

Copenhagen Business School: Civil Society Studies (Denmark)

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Associate Professorship in Civil Society Studies, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark. Deadline: October 17, 2021.

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a vacant Associate Professorship in Civil Society Studies at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy (MPP) In announcing this Associate Professorship, the Department wishes to strengthen theoretically informed civil society studies by increasing the comparative understanding of historical developments and contemporary practices of civil society nationally and internationally. The school expects that the candidate has a research profile covering one or more of these themes: Civil society in the context of cultural economy and/or political economy; civil society in a historical sociological, cultural and critical perspective; conceptual developments of civil society; the organization of the relationship between Civil Society, State and Market and how and to what extent these spheres provides inclusion and/or exclusion.

East-West Center: Title IX & DEI Coordinator (USA)

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Title IX & Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Coordinator, Management Operations, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Deadline: Open until filled.

The East-West Center is accepting applications for a two-year, limited position as a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Coordinator. This position oversees Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) efforts throughout the East-West Center (EWC). Serving as a subject-matter expert and organizational culture champion, the incumbent will work collaboratively with Management Operations and the Human Resources Office to implement a robust, integrated DE&I strategy that spans compliance, accountability, retention, employee engagement, talent acquisition, and learning and development. The position will foster innovation in DE&I initiatives by using meaningful data to measure compliance with and aligned business strategies to DE&I principles and with regard to Title VII, Affirmative Action and the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). Additionally, this position will have primary responsibility for ensuring compliance with Title IX to support the organizational climate in which all members of the EWC team are protected from all forms of sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, sexual violence, and gender-based harassment and discrimination. The DE&I Coordinator will serve as a liaison with DE&I Committee and other stakeholders to develop initiatives and processes at the Center along with providing support to programs that promote equity for under-represented minorities on the EWC campus.

King’s College London: International Education (UK)

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Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in International Education, King’s College London, London, UK. Deadline: 24 October, 2021.

 

King’s College London is seeking to recruit a social science scholar with interests in the global dimensions of education to contribute to teaching and program administration on our BA Social Sciences and MA Education suite of programs. The successful candidate will have expertise in, or that can be applied to, international and comparative education, education in a global context, and education and international development, with a strong grounding in a foundation discipline. They will also have strong communication, organizational and teamworking skills, a commitment to inclusive and democratic ways of working, proven teaching ability and an interest in, and aptitude for, communication across disciplines. They will be a member of the friendly and vibrant Centre for Public Policy Research within the School of Education, Communication and Society, which is a School in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy. The school particularly welcomes candidates from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. This full-time post post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

SDSU: Asst Prof of Conflict Communication/Civil Discourse (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor of Conflict Communication / Civil Discourse, San Diego State University, CA, USA. Deadline: October 11, 2021 (or until filled).

The School of Communication at San Diego State University (SDSU) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Conflict Communication/Civil Discourse, at the level of advanced assistant professor, to start August 2022.

Responsibilities: The successful candidate is expected to have a scholarly research agenda examining conflict communication or civil discourse from an interpersonal, organization, group, health, or intercultural, perspective. The faculty member will be able to teach curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate level. Courses include, but are not limited to, topics in communication theory, methodology, and conflict management. The candidate will also have the opportunity to create and teach classes aligned with their particular research interests, including upper division and graduate level courses. The successful candidate will also be expected to provide service to the School, College, University, and professional communication organizations. Faculty members are expected to serve on and chair master’s thesis and comprehensive examination committees, and mentor early career faculty members as appropriate.

Saint Louis U: Race & Media (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor of Race and Media, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA. Deadline: Review to begin 18 October, 2021, until position is filled.

Saint Louis University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track position in the Department of Communication. We are seeking a candidate with expertise in race, media and social justice. The position is at the assistant professor level, to begin in Fall 2022. Duties include teaching courses such as media and society, stereotyping and bias in media and other courses in the Journalism and Media Studies concentration, along with courses in the department’s core curricula and in our graduate program. Candidates are expected to participate in service and maintain an active program of published research. Tenure-track faculty in our department teach two courses each semester. Earned doctorate by August 1, 2022, documented teaching experience and excellence and record or promise of published scholarly research. A successful candidate will demonstrate meaningful commitment to social justice, equity and inclusion in their teaching, research and service.