Assistant Professor in Organizational Communication

The Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to hire an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Critical Organizational Communication. Candidates should have a Ph.D. or a completion date of a Ph.D. by July 1, 2024 and be qualified to teach undergraduate and graduate Organizational Communication courses, contribute to the core courses in the graduate program, and develop specialized undergraduate and graduate courses reflecting their research interests. We are particularly interested in a colleague whose research and teaching emphasizes advocacy and organizing for social change, community-based organizing, and social movement organizing. Candidates with a focus on environmental communication who are working on related issues of environmental justice, labor, and sustainability are strongly encouraged to apply. About Organizational Communication at UNC: Faculty in Organizational Communication use a critically informed, engaged approach to understand everyday organizational life. Faculty in the area employ multi-level, multi-method analyses of organizing across work, community, and social change contexts, with a sustained focus on communication as constitutive of organizing. Major areas of teaching include labor, work and identity, power and resistance, ethics, leadership, democracy and citizenship, and gender, race and class to create constructive organizational change.