Am U of Beirut job ad

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
Media and Communication
Assistant Professor

The media studies program at the American University of Beirut (AUB) seeks a media and communication educator for a full-time faculty position at the rank of assistant professor to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, engage in research and student advising, and help further expand the media studies program at AUB. The position is to begin September 1, 2014. Appointment is for an initial period of four years.

Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in media studies, communication, mass communication, journalism studies, or a related media/communication field.

Interested applicants must submit a letter of interest, CV, and arrange for three letters of reference to be directly sent to: Patrick McGreevy, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, c/o 3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10017-2303, USA or Patrick McGreevy, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El-Solh, Beirut 1107 2020 Lebanon.

Electronic submissions are preferred and may be sent to as_dean AT aub.edu.lb.

Application review will begin on October 1, 2013. Applications will continue to be accepted until October 20, 2013.

For more information on this position, please visit http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas

The American University of Beirut is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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CMM Institute Fellows 2013/14

Fellows Program 2013/2014
A Partnership among Villanova University, Fielding Graduate University, and the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution

Topic:  Using the “communication perspective” and CMM for
understanding our lives lived in new media.

Communication is a generative force in the construction of social worlds. In the 21st Century these social worlds are increasingly created within a mediated landscape. These new media include a variety of digital platforms, experienced via a range of devices that offer on-demand access to content, interactive user feedback, creative participation, mobile community formation around specific content issues, and the real-time generation of new unregulated content. The new media, in fact, appear to offer it all and substantial claims have been made about their capacity to contribute to and enhance our contemporary social life.

In this year’s call for Fellows, we seek proposals that take a communication perspective and use the lens of CMM to further our understanding of lives lived in new media and, in particular, address the issue of how new media impacts our capacity to make and engage in social worlds.

Proposals that focus on any of the various types of new media are welcome. These new media can include web-hosted social sites like facebook, mobile supported technology applications like twitter, or the range of different media hosted sites for citizen engagement and democratic participation activities.

We particularly encourage proposals that can demonstrate the practical import of a communication perspective and that enrich our understanding of the value of using CMM to understand the new media context and the types of social worlds these new media are helping to make and foster.

Application Process:  Applications can be downloaded using the “Letter of Intent” form on the CMM Institute website  Applications are due by Friday, November 1, 2013.   Applicants will be notified the week of January 5, 2014.

If you are invited to become a CMM Fellow for 2014, you will be asked to present your work and engage participants in your topic area at the 2014 CMM Learning Exchange in October, 2014 (specific dates and location to be determined).  The three partnering institutions will also post your work on our respective websites. The three institutions will conduct a blind review process and select 3 Fellows for 2014.  Each Fellow will receive a cash award of $2500.00 and will have your travels expenses to the 2014 Learning Exchange paid for.

Download relevant files here:

For more information, contact Kim Pearce.

– See more details here.

Hebrew U of Jerusalem job ad

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Department of Communication and Journalism
Tenure-Track Research and Teaching Positions

The Noah Mozes Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites outstanding candidates to apply for tenure-track positions starting July, 2014.

Preference will be given to candidates specializing in the following areas:
* Cinema and Visual Culture
* Media Institutions
* Discourse Studies

These areas complement the Department’s strengths in internet research, political communication, journalism, cinema and culture. The successful applicant will join a dynamic research-oriented faculty offering innovative undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs. For more information about our faculty and research please visit the Smart Family Institute of Communications website.

The language of instruction is Hebrew, although English is acceptable for an initial period.

Applications should include:

  • Detailed CV including full list of publications
  • A scientific biography, including a research plan for the next several years, 3-4 pages long
  • Letters of recommendation from at least two persons qualified to assess the candidate’s achievements and potential
  • Copies of three selected recent publications that best showcase the candidate’s scholarship
  • Brief description of 3-4 potential courses that the candidate could teach
  • Teaching evaluations (if such exist)

Applicants will compete with candidates of other departments in the Faculty of Social Sciences for academic positions.

Application materials and/or inquiries should be directed to:

Prof. Esther Schely-Newman, Chair (msetti AT huji.ac.il).
Department of Communication and Journalism
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel.

Letters of recommendation should be sent directly to the above address, or to msetti AT huji.ac.il.

Deadline for applications: September 30th 2013.

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CFP Immigrants and meanings of work

CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
Immigrants and Meanings of Work: A Global Perspective (Working Title)

Editors
Suchitra Shenoy-Packer, DePaul University
Elena Gabor, Bradley University

Extended abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2013

We would like to invite you to contribute, help shape, and develop an important area of scholarship – Meanings of work from immigrants’ perspectives.

If you are an immigrant yourself and/or you have conducted research with immigrants within the intersections of race, class, gender, immigration status (or others), and work, we are interested in chapters that reveal how you or other immigrants construct the meaning of work in your/their lives. We take a deliberate interdisciplinary focus in order to be inclusive of theoretical perspectives. However, because we are interested in the subjective experiential realities of diverse groups of immigrants working in different parts of the world, we prefer interpretive, critical-cultural works that include immigrants’ voices (either as quotes or as first person narratives) as primary sources of research investigations.

Potential Topics:
We are open to a variety of innovative topics pertaining to Immigrants and Meanings of Work. Here are some examples:
* Immigrant first-person accounts of their work experience explained in the context of academic perspectives of meanings of work/meaningful work
* Religious ethos that influence meanings of work (and that carry over into the immigrant’s adopted culture)/i.e., A Buddhist immigrant’s views of work that influence her work experiences and meaning-making in an adopted Catholic country.
* Immigrant work ethic/work ethic in transition
* Socialization/adaptation dissonance between what was taught (e.g., values) in one’s native country vis-à-vis what is experienced (the “reality”) in the adopted country
* Social construction of immigrant work identity
* Pan-cultural/culturally universal work values

Please submit an extended abstract between 600-800 words (excluding references) to Suchitra at sshenoy1 AT depaul.edu and Elena at egabor AT bradley.edu by October 15, 2013. Questions may be directed at either or both.

Stanford U job in Middle Eastern studies

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
School of Humanities and Sciences
Middle Eastern Studies

STANFORD UNIVERSITY invites applications for a tenure-line, open-rank position in MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES to begin in the academic year 2014-15. The scholar-teacher appointed will be based in a social science department but is also expected to make contributions to the interdisciplinary study of the Middle East and North Africa across the University. The appointment can be in one of the following departments in the School of Humanities and Sciences: Anthropology, Communication, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. Teaching responsibilities will be determined by the home department.

Stanford U

Applicants should provide a cover letter including a brief statement of research interests, a curriculum vitae including list of publications, and sample(s) of recent scholarship. Assistant level and untenured applicants should arrange to have three letters of reference submitted to Interfolio. Currently tenured applicants should submit the names of three references.  For full consideration, materials must be received by October 1, 2013.

Apply through Interfolio.

Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. It welcomes nominations of, and applications from, women and members of minority groups, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the university’s research and teaching missions.

U Miami job ad

 

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
School of Communication
Position in Health and/or Intercultural Communication

The Department of Communication Studies in the School of Communication at the University of Miami is seeking applicants for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 2014.  Successful candidates will have expertise in health and/or intercultural communication and will join a growing team of faculty working to build a nationally prominent Ph.D. program focused in these areas.  Applicants must have a Ph.D. in communication, or provide evidence they will have completed all requirements for the degree by August 2014.  They should also have a record of strong teaching and publication in mainstream communication journals, or promise of such.

Review of applications will begin November 1, 2013 and continue until the position is filled.  Qualified candidates should send:  (1) letter summarizing teaching philosophy and research area, (2) current CV, and (3) three letters of recommendation to:

Professor Diane Millette
Communication Studies Department
School of Communication
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248127
Coral Gables, FL  33124-2105

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical and dental benefits, tuition remission, vacation, paid holidays and much more.  The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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Fellowships at FMSH Paris

Fondation maison des sciences de l’homme
Fellowships for Postdoctoral Researchers

Fernand Braudel – IFER programme for postdoctoral international mobility in SHS (International Fellowships for Experienced Researchers)

The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH, Paris) offers postdoctoral fellowships for researchers in the social and human sciences for periods of nine months within the framework of its « Fernand Braudel-IFER » programme (International Fellowships for Experienced Researchers). This programme is carried out with the financial support of the European Union (Action Marie Curie – COFUND – 7th EU Research Framework Programme), the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), the Institute for SHS at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne), and the collaboration of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).

Research Stays for Senior Researchers
For “senior” researchers (over 40 years of age), the FMSH offers research stays in France through the following programs:
– “Visiting Professorships”: individual stays lasting from 1 to 2 months for foreign researchers from all countries
– International Program for Advanced Studies (IPAS): research stays lasting from 3 to 5 months for small international research groups working on a common project
– Institute of Advanced Studies, Paris
– Research stays in France or in selected foreign countries in the framework of exchange agreements with other research institutions:
• Russia/CIS Program,
• India Program,
• China Program,
• Latin America Program

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CID Welcomes the New Assistant to the Director

CID has recently welcomed Minh Cao, a graduate student in Communication at Villanova University, as the Assistant to the Director of the Center. Minh is currently in the second year of her academic program, working on her Master’s dissertation while assisting the Director with website content management. She is excited to be part of the project, especially when her personal and academic backgrounds show great connections to the work of the Center.

Minh grew up in Hanoi, Vietnam, where she spent 18 years before embarking on her academic journeys in the U.S. Having vastly enjoyed her conversation with one of the Villanova’s ambassadors who was at a college fair in Vietnam, Minh decided to pursue her undergraduate degree at Villanova University. She chose Global Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS) as her major, the name of which often causes inquiring looks from others. One can simply understand GIS as the studies of a perspective that embodies interrelating disciplines in regarding, comprehending and accessing global matters. GIS has, in many ways, complimented Minh’s academic endeavor in Communication, as the latter turns out to have much of the same nature as her previous degree.

Minh looks forward to contributing to CID and hopes that she can provide additional help in fostering the mission of the Center.

U Kentucky job ad

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
Assistant/Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication

The University of Kentucky Department of Communication within the College of Communication and Information extends this invitation for applications for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication beginning August 15, 2014. Expertise in intercultural communication from a social scientific orientation, Ph.D. in communication, evidence of excellence in teaching, and research and publication credentials commensurate with departments in Research I universities required. Candidates demonstrating the ability or potential to teach courses related to existing undergraduate curricula in interpersonal, health, organizational, or mediated communication contexts preferred. Opportunities are also available to teach in the College master’s and doctoral programs. Responsibilities include teaching two courses per semester, actively engaging in research, and participating in program advising and service activities.

The Department of Communication is a part of the College of Communication and Information with master’s and doctoral programs in communication and undergraduate programs in communication, journalism, media arts and studies, and integrated strategic communication; a new interdisciplinary major in information, communication, and technology has been approved. The University has recognized Department faculty for their teaching excellence. The Department has an active research faculty with a consistent record of extramural funding. Research technology includes 1) digital survey building, 2) portable data-base driven data-collection, 3) a one-of-a-kind, digital content analysis lab, 4) a private video coding lab for content analysis, 5) a 20-seat stadium-style theater for video stimuli presentation, and 6) an interpersonal interaction lab. Faculty research specialties include interpersonal, mass, instructional, organizational, health, and risk communication.

Lexington is in the center of the Bluegrass, an internationally acclaimed cultural landscape, and in close proximity to Louisville and Cincinnati. It is a community of 300,000 and is distinguished by its rating as one of the top 10 most educated cities in the nation (according to the U.S. Census), top 5 cities for young professionals (Kiplinger), top 3 mid-sized cities for lowest cost of living (KPMG LLP), and top 5 cities to raise a family (Forbes). More information on Lexington is available at http://www.visitlex.com and http://www.aceweekly.com

The University of Kentucky and the UK College of Communication and Information are strongly committed to increasing diversity in their community of students and faculty. Individuals with ethnically diverse backgrounds are actively encouraged to apply for this position. The University of Kentucky is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Contingent on final budgetary approval, salary for the position will be commensurate with experience. To apply, please send a letter of application, vitae, evidence of teaching and research excellence, and contact information for three references to the Intercultural Communication Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication, 227 Grehan Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0042 (email: comhires@uky.edu).  Review of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled; interviews are planned to begin in November, 2013. Upon offer of employment, successful applicants for all positions may be required to pass a national background check as required by University of Kentucky Human Resources.

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CASBS (Stanford) fellowships

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University invites applications for residential fellowships during the 2014-2015 academic year. This sabbatical fellowship provides an excellent opportunity for faculty to pursue priority research while engaging in a diverse, interdisciplinary intellectual community. We ask your help in identifying and encouraging applications from communication scholars. The Leonore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication was established at CASBS in 2004 to fund CASBS Fellows who

  • advance scholarship in the field of communication as it has emerged since the mid-20th century, and
  • are engaged with communication scholarship as their primary field.

We appreciate your assistance in ensuring that outstanding, innovative communication scholarship is a vital part of our multidisciplinary group of Fellows.

CASBS offers a supportive, stimulating, and peaceful environment in which to work. A CASBS fellowship award is considered a career milestone for any scholar, and most recipients report that the year had a transformative effect on later work. CASBS considers applications from scholars in a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary areas in the social and behavioral sciences, and humanities.

The application form and guidelines, as well as detailed information regarding the fellowship program, are available here. Please note that applications for the 2014-2015 fellowship year are due by 3 October 2013.

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