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Assistant/Associate Professor of Instruction or Practice  

The University of Texas at Austin: School of Information  

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Deadline: Reviews will begin on October 16, 2023 and continue until the positions are filled. Preference will be given to candidates who can start teaching in Spring 2024.  

Description 

The School of Information (iSchool) at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for full-time professional track positions (Assistant/Associate Professor of Instruction and Assistant/Associate Professor of Practice). We seek candidates qualified to teach a range of courses in the iSchool's new undergraduate degree programs, the B.S.I. and B.A. in Informatics as well as the Master of Science in Information Studies (MSIS) program. Thus, ideal candidates will have broad professional experience in one or more core areas of information studies and informatics. 

We seek candidates who could teach in one or more of the following areas: 

• Libraries and Librarianship (e.g., information literacy, library instruction, library assessment, user research in libraries, management and leadership in information organizations, digital libraries, information organization and access, design and management of information services, collection development and management, school libraries, academic libraries, public libraries, youth services) 
• Cultural Heritage Informatics (e.g., archives, digital collections, preservation, digital curation, digital humanities, museum studies, metadata, cultural studies of information technology, history of information, critical data studies) 
• Social Justice Informatics (e.g., information and human rights, serving and working with communities, gender and information technology, information and communication technologies and development, technology for social good) 
• Human-Centered Data Science (e.g., databases, big data, information retrieval, robotics, artificial intelligence, information visualization) 
• User-Experience Design (e.g., human-computer interaction, user-experience research, user interface design, product management, human-robot interaction, value-sensitive design) 
• Health Informatics (e.g., public health informatics, health information for underserved populations, eHealth, mobile health, electronic health records, self-tracking) 
• Social Informatics (e.g., information technology and society, public interest technology, information technology and organizations, future of work, information security and privacy) 

The University of Texas School of Information has active and growing teaching and research programs in each of these areas. Professional track faculty at the iSchool are valued intellectual partners in their area of concentration, adding their valuable expertise to our undergraduate and graduate degree programs.  

Qualifications 

Candidates for the Instruction or Practice tracks should hold a graduate degree in a relevant field, broadly defined. Applicants for the Practice track should have at least three years of professional experience in a field relevant to the subject(s) in which they teach. Applicants for the Instruction track should either hold a doctoral degree or have a record of successful teaching experience in higher education. 

Questions about the positions may be sent to Dr. Soo Young Rieh, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at rieh@ischool.utexas.edu.