[Jobs] toronto

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

niversity of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies -- 5-Person  
Faculty Search -- Open rank; open area.
The University of Toronto is recruiting five faculty members to join  
the Faculty of Information Studies (FIS) in playing a leading  
international role in its field. As recognized in the Faculty's  
2004-2010 Academic Plan [1], society's information practices are  
being reconfigured and transformed by material shifts in underlying  
systems, technologies, and networked infrastructures. Candidates are  
sought from all ranks to collaborate in exploring these new and  
evolving practices, as part of a major, multi-year process of Faculty  
renewal. Consideration will be given to all specialisations fitting  
within the Plan -- from historical roots through present practice to  
multiple emerging futures. Rank, tenure status, and salary would be  
commensurate with the candidate's qualifications and academic  
accomplishments.
[1] available from http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/activities/planning/ 
FISAcademicPlan.pdf
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
-- Documentary and Information Practices: The selection,  
representation, classification, organization, management, curation,  
and preservation of organizational and cultural records and objects,  
including provision of effective and equitable access, as transformed  
by emerging technologies of digitization, reproduction,  
classification, and distribution;
-- Health and Medical Informatics: Information practices and  
behaviour in a wide variety of health fields -- including novel uses  
of information systems, reconfigured knowledge and information  
practices, and other consequences for health care of evolving systems  
and networks;
-- Communication, Culture, and Media: The social, cultural, and  
political aspects of the socio-technical practices of information  
system design, development, implementation, uptake, reconfiguration,  
and use;
-- Books, Documents, and Records: The evolving nature and use of  
books, documents, col-lections, records, and other knowledge and  
information media, in a wide range of contexts, genres,  
organizations, and communities;
-- Information Systems and Management: The strategic design,  
development, and management of new informational systems and  
practices, parlaying emerging technologies and infrastructures into  
new and reconfigured practices in business, education, the public  
sector, and civil society;
-- Information Interaction and Retrieval: Human-computer interaction,  
information retrieval, web- and network-based systems for  
classification and organization, metadata schemes and standards,  
proposals for a semantic web, and other aspects of the design,  
configuration, and use of computer systems supporting information  
practice; and
-- Information Policy: Issues of information policy, including  
privacy, identity, security, public access, intellectual freedom,  
intellectual property, etc., and how these are being influenced by on- 
going developments in information technology infrastructures and  
associated socio-economic transformations.
Candidates must have a Ph.D., preferably with excellent teaching and  
research experience. Duties include research and teaching at the  
graduate level. Applicants should (i) send curriculum vitae, teaching  
dossier, copies of three representative papers/publications, and a  
statement outlining current and future research interests, and (ii)  
arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent, under separate  
cover, preferably electronically, to:
Email: facultysearch at fis.utoronto.ca
or on paper to:
Brian Cantwell Smith, Dean Faculty of Information Studies, University  
of Toronto, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6, Canada
Phone: (416) 978-3202
Application review will begin on December 17, 2004, and continue  
until all positions are filled.
The University of Toronto offers the opportunity to teach, conduct  
research and live in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the  
world. The Faculty of Information Studies provides a context in which  
to work in an emerging interdisciplinary environment and in a range  
of collaborative programs including Knowledge Media Design, Book  
History and Print Culture, Women's Studies, and Aging and the Life  
Course.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within  
its community and especially welcomes applications from visible  
minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with  
disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may  
contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified  
candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent  
residents will be given priority.

jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu
jeremy.tmttlt.com
www.tmttlt.com

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