Employment Type: Permanent Faculty

Vacancy ID: FAC0004684

Position Summary/Description:

This position is located in the Communication Department within the College of Arts and Sciences. We are seeking an innovative and dynamic teacher to teach courses that reflect our program’s investments in interpersonal and organizational communication as part of everyday life and as critical components of advocacy and social influence. Candidates will teach a 3/3 load (six total), five of which must be undergraduate courses that meet the Communication Beyond Carolina degree requirement. Such courses must meet a minimum threshold of 2/3 course content and/or assignments that include the practice of oral communication (broadly defined). The department currently offers multiple courses with this designation (e.g., Small Group Communication, Persuasion) and is currently adding the designation to more of our current Interpersonal Communication and Organizational Communication course offerings. Candidates will also have the opportunity to develop new courses based on their own teaching and research expertise. Faculty in Interpersonal Communication focus on the relational dimensions of social problems. Faculty in the area use critical and historical analysis, ethnography, discourse analysis, and conversational analysis, among others. Major areas of teaching include interpersonal communication, persuasion,, gender communication, family communication, race and social discourse, and identity and communication. Faculty in Organizational Communication use a critically-informed, engaged approach to understand everyday organizational life from a communication perspective. Faculty in the area employ multi-level, multi-method analyses of organizing across work, community, and social change contexts, with a sustained focus on communication as constitutive of organizing. Major areas of teaching include globalization, labor, work and identity, power and resistance, ethics, leadership, democracy and citizenship, and gender, race and class to create constructive organizational change. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be affiliated with the Program for Public Discourse and will work with other faculty around campus who are also addressing the Communication Beyond Carolina needs.

Education and Experience:

Qualifications include the following: Ph.D. (or conferral during the 2023-2024 academic year) in Communication or a related discipline with a specialization in Interpersonal Communication or Organizational Communication is required. Candidates should have a record and/or demonstrated potential for, outstanding teaching at the undergraduate level, preferably with experience incorporating oral practices into their teaching. Interest in teaching courses related to small group communication, persuasion, dialogue and deliberation, democracy and democratic decision-making, civic participation, multi-stakeholder decision-making, community collaboration, or public participant processes preferred.

AA/EEO Statement:

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.