Associate Professor of Health Communication at the Borders
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
School of Transborder Studies
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU
The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (HDSHC) and the School of Transborder Studies (STS) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University invite applications for a full-time, tenured position as Associate Professor holding a joint appointment in the HDSHC and STS. Applicants’ scholarship and teaching should focus on health communication and southwest border issues. Salary will be competitive based on qualifications. We encourage applications from scholars who work at the intersection of health communication as it relates to migration, border-crossing, health disparities, patient-provider relationships, medical technologies, mental/behavioral wellbeing, resilience and quality of life, health campaigns, using AI to solve medical problems, and disrupting mis/disinformation that impacts health. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain a rigorous research program at the intersections of health communication and the southwest borders; teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both units; contribute to curriculum development and graduate advising in both units; serve on school, college, and university committees; and provide service to professional associations and the community. The candidate will be in residence on the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of August 2025.
HDSHC, one of the premier schools for studying human communication, offers interdisciplinary Ph.D., M.A., B.A., and B.S. degrees in communication studies. The School’s mission is to produce cutting edge and interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching that responds to pressing issues in the world today. HDSHC faculty members and graduate students embrace a variety of theoretical, methodological and paradigmatic lenses, and study a variety of research topics spanning health, intercultural, interpersonal, and organizational communication as well as performance, and rhetoric. To learn more about the HDSHC, please visit https://humancommunication.asu.edu/.
STS aims to create new understandings and challenge old understandings of borders as well as facilitate social change in collaboration with transborder communities. We leverage our interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological expertise to educate and innovate in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, with implications for borders and transborder communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and around the world. To learn more about STS, please visit https://sts.asu.edu/.
The two schools actively collaborate with other units and centers at the university, including the following: Hispanic Research Center, Latina/os and American Politics Research (CLAPR), American Indian Policy Institute, Center for Indian Education, Center for Asian Research, The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies, Black African Coalition and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict.
About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large, multicultural and curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.
About Arizona State University
ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter, ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.
Required Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Communication or a closely related field
- Evidence of excellence in scholarship (research and/or creative activity), commensurate with years of experience, focused in health communication and southwest border concerns.
- This may include but is not limited to: migration, border-crossing, health disparities, patient-provider relationships, medical technologies, mental/behavioral wellbeing, resilience and quality of life, health campaigns, using AI to solve medical problems, disrupting mis/disinformation that impacts health.
- Evidence of excellence in teaching, commensurate with years of experience.
- This may include but is not limited to: health communication and additional area(s) of specialization that meet the curricular needs of the HDSHC and STS at the undergraduate and graduate level.
- Evidence of commitment to service to the university, discipline, and community commensurate with years of experience.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty, staff, students and communities to develop use-inspired, community-embedded research, local and global engagement, principled innovation, and other concerns that advance the principles of the ASU Charter.
- A record of development and writing of successful proposals for external funding or capacity to develop and write successful proposals commensurate with years of experience.
- Evidence of and/or capacity to build transdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and the School of Transborder Studies and related units (e.g., ASU’s Chicano/a Research Collection).
- Evidence of activities related to mentoring excellence for graduate and undergraduate students’ independent research projects commensurate with years of experience.
How to Apply
The application deadline is November 17, 2024. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order by which they were received until the position is filled. Candidates will be asked to create or use an existing Interfolio Dossier to submit the following application materials:
- A cover letter specifying interest in the position and how qualifications match the required and desired qualifications
- A curriculum vitae that includes a comprehensive publication, mentoring, and funding record
- An outline of future research plans (not to exceed one page)
- Evidence of excellence in teaching (e.g., syllabi, teaching evaluations)
- Evidence of excellence in scholarship (e.g., reprints of no more than three articles or book chapters)
- A list of three references (including, their names, affiliations, email, and phone number), who may be contacted at a later date. References will not be contacted without first alerting candidates
For additional information:
Email search committee chair: Dr. Jonathan Pettigrew at jpet@asu.edu
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