[SIGCIS-Members] Tenure-track position in Social Informatics, Indiana University

[Nathan Ensmenger]

The School of Informatics and Computing is hiring this year, and the position in social informatics might be a good fit for some of our SIGCIS members or their students.

Our social informatics faculty currently includes two historians of computing, as well as a number of other STS-trained or -oriented scholars.  

-Nathan


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Indiana University- School of Informatics and Computing
Faculty Position in Social Informatics
 
The School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for an asst/assoc/full professor position in social informatics (SI), in the informatics division, to begin in August 2015.  Our intent is to hire the candidate, either senior or junior, best able to help our SI Group lead the development of Social Informatics, an opportunity greatly enabled by the recent merger into the SoIC of the IUB Department of Information and Library Science (ILS). Candidates with interests in ethnography, social and political values in computing, economic and policy perspectives on information technology, and internet and media studies are especially encouraged to apply.
 
Applicantsrelevant area or (junior level) expected before August 2015.
 
The SI Group in the Informatics Division currently has six members whose work is grounded in
 
The SoIC is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed  Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and integrating the full breadth of computing and information technology.  It includes Computer Science, Informatics, and Library and Information Science, with over 85 tenure-line faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1100 undergraduate majors.  Its degrees include B.A. and B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Informatics, Master’s in Computer Science, Security Informatics, Bioinformatics, Human Computer Interaction Design, Information Science, and Library Science, and Ph.D.s in Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science.
 
Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally
 
Applicants 
 
http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/972 (Social Informatics)
 
or by mail to Faculty Search, SoIC, 919th St, Bloomington, IN 47408. Questions may be sent to hiring at soic.indiana.edu.  For full consideration applications are due by December 1, 2014. 
Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2014.
 
Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.