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Syracuse University Assistant Professor: Communication and Rhetorical Studies in Syracuse, New York
The Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor to begin in August 2025. The Department is in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, located on the ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, particularly the Onondaga Nation. This is a research position (R1).
Candidates must have expertise in emerging media technologies, digital media, and/or artificial intelligence (for instance: machine learning, algorithms, platform studies, creator studies, user experience, data centers, game studies, digital storytelling, extended reality) with a focus on race and/or ethnicity. We seek candidates with experience pertaining to historically excluded or marginalized racial or ethnic communities.
The ideal candidate integrates a critical/cultural and intersectional approach to research, teaching, and service, anchored in a humanities tradition of scholarship. Research and teaching interests should complement the department’s existing strengths in critical/cultural studies, rhetoric, performance studies, language and social interaction, and media studies.
The department is committed to removing barriers that have been traditionally encountered by individuals from underrepresented groups; strives to recruit and retain faculty who will further enhance our diversity; and makes every attempt to support their academic, professional, and personal success while they are here.
About the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
The Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies (CRS) creates skilled and versatile communicators prepared for the diverse professional and personal contexts they will come to understand, pursue, and influence. Launched in 1910 as the Department of Oratory, CRS is one of the nation’s first academic programs devoted to the study of communication and rhetoric. Throughout our evolution, our department has been housed in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, where our programs have benefited from close association with the disciplines of art, design, film and media arts, drama, creative arts therapy, and music.
About The College of Visual and Performing Arts
The College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University is committed to the education of cultural leaders who will engage and inspire audiences through performance, visual art, design, scholarship, and commentary. We provide the tools for self-discovery and risk-taking in an environment that thrives on critical thought and action. To learn more about the college, our distinguished faculty, and our program, please visit our websites at www.syr.edu, www.vpa.syr.edu.