Four Open-Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Positions
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (The iSchool,
ischool.syr.edu)
seeks scholars and leaders to fill four open-rank tenure-track faculty positions to start
in Fall 2019. Successful candidates will have a productive program of research in an
information-related field and be able to contribute to the development of students and
courses in our degree programs in information management and technology, data science and
data analytics, library and information science (including school media) and information
science and technology.
The successful candidates will join our “Faculty of One”: a highly collegial environment
that stresses interdisciplinary collaboration amongst our school's faculty and with
other members of the university community and beyond. Our research and teaching often
adopt a socio-technical approach, recognizing that important problems are not simply
technical nor just about people, but rather require both social and technological
insights. We seek applicants whose topic areas and skills adopt this philosophy, and who
can speak to overlapping areas within the school.
We are particularly seeking applications from researchers whose interests are located in
one or more of the following scholarly areas:
* technical, behavioral and/or social approaches to address privacy and security for
trustworthy cyberspace
* computational social science
* digital humanities
* big data approaches to exploring important organizational, scientific, social,
economic, cultural or political questions
* information and knowledge management with big data
* community-focused librarianship in K-12, academic, special or public libraries
* information literacy, especially ways to increase users’ resilience to
misinformation or to privacy and security attacks
* library services, such as youth or reference services
* information organization and retrieval
* human-computer interaction (HCI), user experience and/or user behaviour
* design and evaluation of interactive, social, ubiquitous and/or other emerging
computing systems
* designing for marginalized populations
* ethical and policy implications of digital technologies and design
We specifically seek applications from women and from members of groups traditionally
underrepresented among scholars in higher education. We are interested in candidates who
have the communication skills and cross-cultural abilities to be effective with diverse
groups of students, colleagues and community members. Experience mentoring students from
marginalized groups is particularly valued.
Rank and experience level of these positions are open: we encourage applications from both
junior and senior scholars with a record of achievement appropriate to the rank sought at
time of application. A completed Ph.D. in a relevant field of study or the expectation of
completion of the Ph.D. by August 2019 is required. The School is committed to
professional development for junior faculty, and provides excellent mentoring and
support.
Application process
Applications—including 1) a cover letter outlining the applicant’s interests and
qualifications and including the rank sought; 2) a current curriculum vitae; 3) short
statements describing interests and accomplishments in research and in teaching; and 4)
names and contact information of at least three references—can be submitted at
https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/76240.
All applications will be held in strict confidence; we will seek references only from
finalists. We we are pleased to speak with interested applicants ahead of submitting
materials.
We will begin screening applicants in October 2018 and continue until the positions are
filled, so applications should be received by 7 October 2018 to ensure full consideration.
Direct questions to Dr. Kevin Crowston, search committee chair, crowston(a)syr.edu.
About the iSchool at Syracuse University
Located at the center of picturesque Syracuse University, the iSchool prides itself on
being a thought leader in both scholarship and instruction. Our faculty have recognized
strengths in information retrieval, information management, library programs and services,
natural language processing, computational social science, online communities and civic
participation, new forms of organization and collaboration, information and communications
policy, smart energy systems, digital literacy, information privacy and security,
globalization, data science, entrepreneurship, social media, social computing and other
areas.
The iSchool has five degree programs and numerous certificate programs, with an enrollment
of 31 doctoral students, 873 masters students and 685 undergraduate majors, led by 44
full-time faculty and more than 100 part-time faculty. The iSchool is ranked #4 overall by
US News and World Report for library and information science and #2 for information
systems. Faculty teach in the classroom and/or prepare and oversee delivery of online
courses (with a typical allocation of two courses per semester), and mentor and advise
undergraduate, masters and doctoral students.
iSchool faculty members received more than $5M in external research support in the past
year. The iSchool hosts seven research centers and laboratories and is recognized as a
National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Research and in Information
Assurance/Cyber Defense (IA/CD) by the National Security Agency and the Department of
Homeland Security.
Kevin Crowston
Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished Professor of Information Science
School of Information Studies
+1 (315) 443.1676
crowston@syr.edu<mailto:crowston@syr.edu>
348 Hinds Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244
crowston.syr.edu <http://crowston.syr.edu/>
Syracuse University
Most recent publication: Lee, T. K., Crowston, K., Harandi, M., Østerlund, C. &
Miller, G. (2018). Which motives are most effective in recruiting citizen scientists?
Results of a field experiment. Journal of Science Communication. doi:
10.22323/2.17010202.
Check out our new research coordination network on Work in the Age of Intelligent Machine:
http://waim.network/