[Jobs] boise state

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MEDIA STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
AA-0115-67

Beginning Fall Semester, 2008

The Department of Communication at Boise State University seeks an  
Assistant Professor in Media Studies. The department is committed to  
the balanced integration of theory and practice in the teaching,  
professional, and community activities of its faculty. Applicants for  
this position must be able to teach courses in media practice in one  
or more of the following: media production; web site design and  
development; Internet broadcasting; information gathering; broadcast  
and/or new media journalism. Applicants must also be prepared to  
teach courses in media theory, analysis, and criticism in their areas  
of interest and specialization. In addition to fulfilling his/her  
teaching duties, the successful candidate will be expected to engage  
in scholarly research and publication.

The department has eighteen full-time faculty and enrolls more than  
650 undergraduate majors and 30 graduate students annually. In our  
research and teaching we are strongly committed to providing students  
with a broad-based education in the complex processes of interaction  
and meaning-making. We are unified by an allegiance to social/ 
cultural and humanistic approaches to the study of human  
communication. Additional information may be reviewed at http:// 
comm.boisestate.edu.

QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates must have a completed Ph.D. in  
Communication or a related discipline by August 22, 2008. Applicants  
must also demonstrate excellence or the potential for excellence in  
teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level and in scholarly  
research.

RANK: Tenure Track. Assistant Professor.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES: Send a cover letter, vita, summary of recent  
teaching evaluations, written samples of your research, transcripts,  
three letters of recommendation to:

Search Committee Chair
Search # AA-0115-67
Department of Communication
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725-1920
(208) 426-3562

Review of applications will begin October 15, 2007 and continue until  
the position is filled.

Boise is Idaho's largest city and its government and business center.  
The city and Boise State provide stimulating varieties of  
educational, cultural, professional, and recreational opportunities.  
The campus, with the largest enrollment of Idaho's colleges and  
universities, rests along the Boise River just a few minutes walk  
from downtown. The Department of Communication is housed within Boise  
State's College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs.

Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,  
think. --Byron