Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

About the role

The Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising in the College of Media at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign invites applicants for a full-time (100% FTE) tenure-track assistant professor position. The expected start date is August 16, 2027.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the department’s research, teaching, service, and public engagement missions.
• Build on the department’s strengths and expand expertise in contemporary media and advertising.
• Teach courses in the existing undergraduate and graduate curricula, potentially developing new electives in areas related to advertising or public relations.
• Contribute to the interdisciplinary doctoral program in the Institute of Communications Research (ICR).

Requirements

• A Ph.D. in a relevant field by August 16, 2027, including advertising, public relations, communication, mass communication, marketing, psychology, and information sciences.

Qualifications

• Promising record of scholarship.
• Eagerness to contribute to the department’s missions.

Skills

• Research expertise in AI and advertising, AI and public relations, computational social science with an emphasis on media and advertising, data analytics including social media analytics, and advertising.
• Expertise in social and mobile media and emergent technologies.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$80,000-$90,000.

Schedule

100% full-time Academic position, appointed on a 9/12-month basis.