Open Rank T/TT Faculty (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor)

Location: Raleigh, NC

About the Department

The Department of Communication at NC State is an accomplished community of students, staff members, teachers and researchers with varied intellectual interests in the communication arts and sciences. Through our teaching, research and service, we cultivate responsible, caring and collaborative communication practices for our students, our community partners and the global citizenry. We do this because communication is central to addressing the significant challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century and we are committed to enabling people, organizations and communities to thrive. Our Department’s curricular domains include interpersonal communication; organizational communication; rhetoric; media studies; public relations; media production; and science, health, environment, and risk communication (SHER). We serve approximately 800 undergraduate Majors, 50 minors in Science Communication, and 40 graduate students. Faculty also teach in the Department’s Master of Science in Communication program and in its interdisciplinary doctoral program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (in partnership with the Department of English). NC State promotes an integrated approach to problem solving that transforms lives and provides leadership for social, economic and technological development across North Carolina and around the world. NC State’s land grant mission of teaching, research and service is dedicated to the service of North Carolina and its people.

Responsibilities

• The Department of Communication at North Carolina State University invites applications for an open rank tenure/tenure-track Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Communication specializing in science communication, beginning August 16, 2027.
• Seek a community-engaged scholar whose research demonstrates a passionate commitment to the study and practice of science communication, including topics such as public trust in science, dis- and misinformation, public engagement in science, audience engagement, message design, research translation, and science literacy.
• Position intended to complement and extend existing strengths in the Department, including interpersonal communication, organizational communication, public relations and strategic communication, rhetoric and civic engagement, and science, health, environmental, and risk communication.
• Welcome candidates whose research on science communication intersects with one or more of these areas or develops new connections among them.
• Part of the Leadership in Public Science Faculty Cluster, created in 2016; cluster members advance scholarship, teaching, and service to deepen understanding and practice of the public’s engagement with science on campus and beyond.
• Cluster’s current focus spans citizen and community science, public engagement with science, civic and collective scientific literacy, and the democratization and decolonization of scientific knowledge.
• New faculty member will collaborate with existing cluster faculty in the College of Natural Resources and College of Education as well as discipline-based educational research faculty in the College of Sciences.
• To expand and extend scholarship in public science, faculty will be expected to integrate science communication into interdisciplinary research endeavors, contribute to cross-disciplinary teaching and graduate mentoring, and engage in high-impact outreach.
• Contribute to Department of Communication undergraduate programs (B.A. in Communication and undergraduate minor in science communication) and graduate teaching and mentoring our graduate programs (M.S. in Communication and Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media).
• Tenured and tenure-track faculty members have a teaching load of 2/2, develop courses in their areas of expertise and contribute, through service, to the intellectual life of the Department, the College, the University and the field.
• Expected to seek internal and external research funding and develop collaborative initiatives, in particular as part of the Leadership in Public Science Cluster.

Qualifications

Minimum