The Department of Journalism and Communication at Utah State University’s main campus in Logan invites applications for Assistant Professor of Applied Media Studies. We are seeking a person who is constantly forward-focused on emerging digital mediums and can bring the various professional journalism backgrounds represented in our course curriculum together as we continually think about how our media technology affect our social interactions and how our students can graduate with skills that reflect our changing communication technologies.  Successful candidates will be able to translate content creation and storytelling tactics across multiple media sources and platforms.

We are seeking a candidate who will be excited to join a growing department with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion for students, faculty, and staff. This is an academic-year (nine-month), tenure-track position with an initial start date of August 1, 2023.

• Teach courses across our curriculum and develop new courses in the candidate’s research or professional interest areas (teaching load: 3 courses in the fall, 3 courses in the spring)
• Conduct and publish scholarly research in the successful candidate’s areas of academic interests
• Bolster our department’s interest in diversity and equity for students, faculty, and staff through service work or professional and academic work
• Advise and mentor students
• Serve on departmental committees and perform other departmental, college, and university service as needed

Minimum Qualifications:

• D. to be completed before August 1, 2023, in Mass Communication, Strategic Communication, Public Relations, Social Media, or Media Studies or a closely related discipline from a regionally accredited college or university
• Terminal Master’s degrees may be considered if the candidate has substantial professional media experience
• Demonstrated ability to teach established courses, such as media writing, qualitative or quantitative research, strategic campaigns and client management, and social media.
• Demonstrated expertise and experience in professional media content creation
• Demonstrated ability to conduct and publish scholarly research
• Active commitment to furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout USU
• Interest in assisting with the continued growth of our department
• Willingness and ability to mentor undergraduate students

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to think outside of the medium silos of “print,” “broadcast,” and “social media”
• Interest in emerging media paradigms and how to effectively teach them to undergraduate students
• Experience working with and supporting diverse populations
• Interest in and dedication to developing a funded research program
• Interest in developing interdisciplinary professional, teaching, research, and other academic collaboration

Along with the online application, please attach:

• CV to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under “Resume/CV”
• Sample syllabus for a public relations course the applicant has taught or is prepared to teach to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under “Documents 1-10”
• Samples of the applicant’s professional client-based work in public relations to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under “Documents 1-10”
• At least three recent academic and/or professional references (collected as part of the online application)
• Cover letter to be typed/pasted at the end of your application
• Statement of teaching philosophy and/or goals to be typed/pasted at the end of your application
• Statement outlining commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all areas of work to be typed/pasted at the end of your application

Other Required Document Types/Special Instructions to Applicants:

• Review of applications will begin December 31, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled
• For more information, contact Dr. Debra Monson, committee chair, at debra.monson@usu.edu or 801/710-9155

**Document size may not exceed 10 MB.**

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