Assistant Professor - Information School
- Employer
- University of Washington Information School
- Location
- Washington, United States
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Date posted
- Oct 9, 2020
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Professional Fields, Library & Information Sciences, Science, Technology & Mathematics, Computer Sciences & Technology
- Employment Level
- Tenured/Tenured Track
- Employment Type
- Full Time
The University of Washington Information School seeks a
creative, collaborative, and forward-thinking scholar, who
demonstrates excellence in research and education, to join our
faculty in forging a more just and sustainable future. The
successful candidate will be expected to explore information-based
approaches to understand and address systemic challenges to urgent
global problems. The Assistant Professor will be expected
to (1) promote equity in health & wellbeing, (2) encourage
environmental sustainability and resilience, or (3) fosters a more
informed, just, and equitable democratic society. We are open to a
broad interpretation of these focus areas, including work that
intersects these areas. The Assistant Professor will be expected to
engage critically with race and technology in one or more of these
areas. We welcome individuals who are excited by, able to thrive
in, and eager to contribute to our diverse, intellectually
stimulating, interdisciplinary environment that respects a wide
variety of research traditions and methods, and is open to new
areas and methods.
Competitive applicants will have demonstrated an ability to
implement research and teaching approaches that
lead to significant social impacts. The Assistant
Professor will be expected to specialize in the ways that
information and technology, including their intersections with
race, ethnicity, and other categories of difference, can and have
been used to exclude, marginalize, privilege, and harm
people, societies, and the environment (e.g., via racially-biased
training data or algorithms, misleading digital representations and
data visualizations, inaccessible user interfaces, racialized
surveillance practices, exclusionary data schemas, selective
data collection practices, unobtainable technologies for learning,
inadequate Internet access in racialized, Indigenous, and rural
communities, inscrutable face and image classifiers, deep fakes,
and many other ways). We also welcome candidates who explore the
political, cultural, and social mobilization of information
technologies and practices to subvert and redress harms, build
networks and resilience among marginalized peoples, advance
environmental and social movements, and or that otherwise examine
how information and technology create opportunities that engender
greater justice, equality, equity, and wellbeing. The Assistant
Professor will be expected to excel in their work while also
demonstrating its possible social limitations and harms, and who
appreciate the larger ramifications of their work, especially
concerning matters of social justice.
The UW Information School is dedicated to hiring faculty who will
enhance diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through
their research, teaching, and service. As information systems and
institutions serve increasingly diverse and global constituencies,
it is vital to understand the ways in which differences in gender,
class, race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, national and
cultural boundaries, national origin, worldview, intellectual
origin, and other identities can both divide us and offer us better
ways of thinking and working. The Information School faculty are
committed to preparing professionals who work in an increasingly
diverse and global society by promoting equity and justice for all
individuals, actively working to eliminate barriers and obstacles
created by institutional discrimination.
Our new colleague will join a broad-based, inclusive information
school, whose faculty members pursue their scholarship, teaching,
and service across multiple degree programs. The University of
Washington is an institution that encourages inclusive research and
community outreach, situated between the Puget Sound and Lake
Washington, in the city of Seattle, on the traditional territories
of the Coast Salish people. Seattle is a rapidly growing, dynamic,
and diverse metropolitan area with a leading technology sector and
vibrant civic sector.
The position is a full-time 9-month tenure track appointment at the
rank of Assistant Professor with an anticipated start date of
September 1, 2021. All University of Washington faculty engage in
teaching, research and service.
Qualifications
Applicants must have a PhD, JD, EdD, MD, or foreign equivalent by date of appointment.
Application InstructionsPlease apply here: http://apply.interfolio.com/76988
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until
the position is filled. Preference will be given to applications
submitted by November 15, 2020. Selected candidates will be invited
for campus visits.
Application packages should include: CV, a letter of intent that
clearly indicates how the candidate’s work complements and extends
the iSchool and our areas of strategic visibility, research
statement, teaching statement, diversity statement*, two sample
publications or scholarly works, and names and contact information
for three references. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for
letters of reference. Please contact Dr. Chirag Shah, Chair, Tenure
Track Search Committee, with questions (iApply@uw.edu).
*iSchool Diversity Statement Guidelines
Diversity, equity and inclusion are core values of the Information School. The Diversity Statement provides an opportunity for applicants to communicate how their approach to research, teaching, and/or service examines, identifies, and contributes to positive social change, especially along the lines of gender, class, race, ethnicity, ability, religious affiliation, national and cultural boundaries, and other identities. For your reference please consult: http://ischool.uw.edu/about/diversity/statement
Equal Employment Opportunity StatementUniversity of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.
Commitment to Diversity
The University of Washington is committed to building diversity among its faculty, librarian, staff, and student communities, and articulates that commitment in the UW Diversity Blueprint (http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). Additionally, the University’s Faculty Code recognizes faculty efforts in research, teaching and/or service that address diversity and equal opportunity as important contributions to a faculty member’s academic profile and responsibilities (https://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/FCG/FCCH24.html#2432).
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