Communication and Media Studies 2009-2010

Tenure-Track Positions Open
Please move jobs down the list of categories as you find out information (note the new category for "deadline passed, no other news yet" to facilitate this).

Please provide links for more information on these positions, if known.

It would be great if people could write in complete sentences and give more details, rather than fewer. Please and thanks.


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Arizona State University - Hugh Downs School of Human Communication - rhetorical studies, rhetoric and critical culture (Assistant/Associate) (due December 1) Listing Here

Butler University - PR (due November 15)

Coastal Carolina University - Public Relations (review begins immediately)

Duquesne University - Assistant Professor of IMC/Business & Professional Communication (due December 15, 2009)

Elon University - Media Communications (Due Nov 15) - Listing Here

Grand Valley State (2 positions) - Broadcast and Health Communication (deadline 11/23/09) Full Listing Here

Georgia State University - Two positions, rhetorical studies and international communication (due Nov 20 and Dec 15) Listings Here

Gonzaga University - 2 positions: public relations, technologically mediated communication (due December 1) Listing Here Note: Email confirmation sent on receipt of application.

Indiana State University - PR (due December 15) Indiana University South Bend - media, cultural studies, PR/journalism (due November 20, 2009), Listing Here

Keene State College - (due November 16, 2009), Listing Here

Marquette University - PR and Corporate Communication (due December 1) Monmouth College - generalist, qualitative (due November 16, 2009), Listing Here Northwestern University - Technology & Social Behavior (Due Nov 15, 2009) Listing Here

Oglethorpe University - Communication and Rhetoric (due December 8) Listing Here

Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information (4 open rank posts - Communication, Journalism and Media Studies -- Global Media & Democracy, Digital Media & Society, Library and Information Sciences) (due 12/1/09) 11/2 - got an email notice that materials were under review

University of Central Missouri - Public Relations (due December 4)

University of Nevada Reno - Public Communication (due November 21, 2009), Listing Here

University of North Carolina Wilmington- Performance Studies (due January 20, 2010) Listing Here

University of Portland (Two positions) - Assistant Professor Communication Studies, Journalism/New Media (due Nov. 30, 2009) Listing Here

University of Utah - (Two positions) New Media Studies (review starts November 15, 2009); organizational communication Note: they email an EEOO form.

University of Wisconsin-Madison - (Two positions) Rhetoric (due December 1, 2009) Listing Here; Mass Communication - 11/2 got affirmative action notice Note: they mail a letter of receipt

Villanova University - (Two Positions) Rhetoric and Media Studies/Journalism, send before NCA. See NCA Interviews below.

Deadline Passed, No Other News Yet
American University - Public Communication (October 1, 2009) Auburn University - rhetoric, intercultural, health (due November 2, 2009), Listing Here Note: sending email upon receipt, then a "form c" (EEOO form) via snail mail.

Babson College - Assistant Professor in Media Studies (review begins Nov 6, 2009) Full Listing Here - email receipt received on 11/5

Baylor University - Organizational Communication (due Nov 1) / Visual Rhetoric (due Nov. 1)

Clemson - 3 positions, any area of Organizational Communication or Technology & Culture (due 10/15) (SEE NCA INTERVIEWS) - Also doing phone interviews in addition to NCA interviews.

College of Wooster - Rhetorical approaches to media communication (due November 1, 2009), Listing Here

Note: Sending emails upon receipt of materials

Note: Reposted the position on November 3rd to CRTNet and basically said send applications ASAP

George Washington University - Assistant Professor, School of Media and Public Affairs (due November 1, 2009)

 Note: Received an affirmative action survey on 10/27 Illinois College Media Production (due October 31, 2009) Listing Here

Note: they email an affirmative action form upon receipt of your application.

DePaul University - Public Relations (due 10/15)

Georgetown College - Communication and Media Studies (review starts October 15, 2009) Full Listing Here George Washington University - General Communication (review starts October 25, 2009)

Ohio State University - Communication Technology (deadline November 1, 2009) - got affirmative action letter 10/30

Ohio University (3) - Health Communication (1), Organizational Communication (2) (review starts Oct 1, 2009)

Middlebury - Comparative Media Studies (review starts 11/2) Full Listing Here Requests for more information made this week to 30 candidates: http://justtv.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/moving-forward-with-our-media-studies-search/#comments Missouri State University - - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Media (review begins Oct. 5, 2009),Full Listing Here.

North Central College - generalist (due November 1, 2009), Full Listing via CRTNet, college website hereListing Here

Northeastern University - Assistant Professor (with expertise in research methods) (due November 1 2009)

Rochester Institute of Technology - Journalism (due Oct. 1, 2009), [http://https://myinfo.rit.edu/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&OAHP=IRC_EXT_SITE_VISITOR_APPL&OASF=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=53668611&retainAM=N&addBreadCrumb=RP&p_svid=32669&p_spid=532102&oapc=7&oas=gc1agMHXP5SJYs58zAZaCQ.. Full Listing Here]

Towson University - Assistant Professor, Research Methods (due Oct. 22, 2009)

University of Colorado at Boulder (Assistant Professor in Journalism) due November 1, 2009)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(Assistant Professor in Interpersonal Comm. due November 1, 2009)

University of Michigan - Interdisclipinary Study of Mass Media (due September 25).

10/28 Affirmative Actions email came

University of Missouri - Interpersonal Communication and Political Communication

Political Comm email receipt of information 11/10. 38 applicants

University of Maryland - Emerging Media (due 10/30/09)

University of Minnesota - 2 positions - New Media Journalism and Journalism and Mass Communication History (due October 19, 2009)

(review starts October 30, 2009) Full Listing Here Note: They follow up with an EEOO (online) form request via email once they start to process your application

University of Oregon - Communication Studies (due September 20, 2009)

University of Texas at Tyler - Assistant/Associate Professor in Journalism (review began in October 2009) Full Listing Here

University of South Carolina at Aiken - Communication and Media (due October 13, 2009)

Email sent on receipt of final letters. Contacting references of semi-finalists.

Western Illinois University - qualitative/generalist (due October 15)

Positions Canceled
University of Pittsburgh -- Rhetoric (deadline 1 October 2009) Full Listing Here Withdrawn according to CRTNET, August 18, 2009.

University of California Los Angeles - Mass Communication **Does anyone know where this was posted?** --&gt; I believe it was posted in the September edition of Spectra.reply: I saw it on one of the sites like phds.org or higheredjobs.com, but it doesn't matter because it was pulled over a month ago (11/1)

University of Iowa -- Visual News/Digital Communication - Search cancelled due to budget cuts. Email sent to applicants 11/11

Phone Interviews
Austin College - Assistant Professor of Media Regulation/History, Rhetoric, and/or Documentary Film/Video Production

Email request for phone interview 11/5.

Denison University -Assistant Professor in International/Cross-Cultural Communication and Media Studies.

Phone interview scheduled for the week of November 2nd. Contacted via email.

Any news after the phone interviews? (11/7)

Eastern Illinois - Scheduled for October 19 - For both Multimedia Design and Basic Course Director.


 * Any news about the Basic Course?
 * Phone interview for Multimedia Design held week of 10/12

Empire State College - Phone interview October 29th

Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne
 * Email received with follow-up questions on November 11. They're scheduling phone interviews for November 18-25 and planning to bring in 3 people for campus interviews in January and February.

Request for phone interview (11/12)
 * Is this for the rhetoric position or the digital media position?
 * Rhetoric position.
 * Media Studies position too

Northeastern University (Chicago) - Generalist (Due Oct 31)

E-mail received 11/2 with interviews being scheduled for 11/6-11/10

Penn State Hazleton - 

E-mail received 11/11 with interviews being scheduled for 11/23-24, 11/30, 12/4.

Roosevelt University Media Studies Full Listing Here.


 * scheduling for the week of October 19th, contacting people via email
 * Any news on this position?
 * Had a phone interview with them week of the 19th; SC probably won't pick candidates for on-campus interviews until at least mid-November.

Sam Houston State University - Business Communication (review begins immediately)

-phone interview held 10/20 and other interviews being held at ABC

Santa Clara University - Organizational Communication (deadline Oct 1, 2009)


 * - phone interviews held on October 20

University of Oregon - Online journalism assistant professor - phone interviews done Friday, Oct. 30. Said they did phoners with 5 people. Plan to bring 2 finalists to campus after 1st of the year.

== On-Campus Interviews == Fairfield University 

- On-Campus interviews scheduled for November


 * Did someone post this because Fairfield said that was their plan? Or has anyone actually been invited for an on-campus interview yet?


 * - Actually invited for an on-campus interview


 * Does anyone know if they have one or two open positions? I heard a rumor it might be two.


 * - When did they invite you for an on-campus interview? Had a phone interview in early October but have not heard anything as of yet.


 * There is at least one on-campus interview happening this week. (10/29)


 * Have others been scheduled?


 * Hoped to be finished interviewing (on-campus) by the end of this week (10/30)

Middle Tennessee State University - Organizational Communication (due 10/26)

E-mail invitation for on-campus in late November

Saint Louis University (Public Relations Position)
 * on-campus interview week of Oct. 26

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - (PR position) On-campus interviews started Oct.26 (Have all the campus interviews been scheduled? I heard a rumor they are hiring two people this year)


 * - Don't know if all have been scheduled, but they are bringing 6 candidates with the aim of filling 2 positions.

University of Minnesota - Mass communication history position. 3 finalists selected and on-campus interviews scheduled for November

Saint Louis University - Multiplatform journalism position - on-campus interview scheduled for later in November.

Roger Williams University - Assistant Professor of Journalism - scheduled for first week in December

Offers Made & Accepted
Ohio University (organizational communication)
 * An offer was made to an org comm candidate, and the offer was accepted on 11/3.
 * ---Congratulations! Who is the candidate/new asst. professor?
 * -is this the org comm or the org comm (multicultural position)??

Xavier University (Public Relations Position)

== NCA Interviews == Clemson - Technology & Culture

- Scheduling NCA interviews (11/2). Contacted by phone.

--any idea how many they are doing?
 * - He was vague about that, though interviews are 25 minutes long and and they were trying to schedule them between 11 and 4pm on Thursday, so my guess is about 10. Though I'm not clear if this is for Tech & Culture only, or for the Org Com position as well (they might have Org Comm people coming on a different day). It sounded like he was going to make most of the calls today/tomorrow...

Illinois College -Rhetoric and Communication Studies Full Listing Here


 * Scheduling NCA interviews, October 30, contacting by phone
 * They received about 165 applications. They're planning on interviewing 15 at the convention, following up with campus interviews after NCA.
 * Do you know if all 15 calls have been made?
 * -- At 6pm EST on Oct 30 they had made about half of them.
 * Great, thanks for the information.
 * Do you have any idea if the rest of the calls have been made?
 * no idea, although they haven't gotten back to me with a finalized day/time for my interview, so they may still be contacting/scheduling. update: day/time finalized as of 6 nov.



James Madison University - PR/Org Com (due 10/15)

-E-mail with interview scheduled for Friday of NCA

Northeastern (Boston)


 * - They were going to have interviews at NCA but the interviewer has the flu. They're going to contact for campus interviews in January.

University at Buffalo (SUNY) - HCI

- they may have interviews at NCA, details pending.

- confirmed - informal.

University of Cincinnati - Comm - TT Comm & Emerging Technologies - Scheduling NCA meet and greets (10/20)

- from what I heard, these are not 'interviews,' per se, but rather informal 'meet and greets' with candidates who have expressed interest in the Cincinnati position.

--Are they contacting people to schedule them or should we initiate that?

they are contacting people who have started submitting their applications, even if they are not yet complete. i did that and mentioned my nca availability, and then was contacted for a 'meet and greet.'


 * ---I am the same - I submitted my application and have not mailed in the rest of the what they want. I was also contacted and scheduled a "meet and greet" appointment at NCA.


 * --hmm, I've submitted and sent everything (and indicated NCA availability in my letter) and have heard nothing.


 * --I am in the same position as "hmm, I've" right above me.
 * -- I am the OP on this. Yes, it is a meet and greet. I am under the impression that a faculty member in my dept told someone on the search committee that a few of us would be a good fit and then we were contacted to touch base with them at NCA. After that I submitted my postal materials and search chair set up meet and greet. He then followed up when my electronic app materials were completed.
 * --Thanks for the info.
 * -- I am the same as directly above.
 * -- I am very confused, does this mean that we should contact someone at Cincinnati if we want to talk to them about the position? does this mean that if we don't get contacted they aren't interested in our application?
 * -- I don't know and I don't think that any of us could know. (OP here again) Maybe the SC contacted me and my classmates because he was told to do so via this faculty member... and maybe he isn't really interested in us at all but is doing a favor for someone. PERSONALLY, my NCA strategy is to contact SCs and ask if they're doing any meetings and/or holding any receptions. YMMV. NCA is early this year and the job postings were late, so maybe some schools aren't ready? Just my 2 cents.
 * --I have been advised by a very experienced full prof to *not* contact the SC about meetings at NCA. That said, it doesnt seem like it could hurt in this situation (where you have good info that other people are being contacted for meetings). If you havent heard from them and they dont want you they will say no. If they want to talk to you they will say yes. Just my 2...
 * - Yeah, I was advised by a very experienced full prof TO contact people. He said "At NCA it's on and SCs expect this. I dunno. I asked my advisor what he thinks. I think that it could go either way. :0/ Once again, conflicting info...

Georgetown College (KY) - scheduling by phone 11/7

University of Houston Downtown - Rhetoric (due October 15, 2009) "Full Listing Here


 * - Scheduling NCA interviews by email (11/3)

University of Richmond - Communication and Culture (review starts October 1, 2009) Full Listing Here


 * 11/5: Finalizing short list. Will be contacting (calling) soon to schedule NCA preliminary interviews (x2)


 * I received an e-mail for an interview with Richmond, to take place Friday or Saturday during NCA (e-mail received 11/9) (x2)

University of South Carolina - Rhetoric (Due Oct 30, 2009)


 * Note: Sending letters upon receipt.


 * Will be calling for NCA interviews shortly and then scheduling phone interviews for after NCA


 * --- on 11/6, I got an e-mail and phone call to schedule an NCA interview either on Friday (Nov. 13) or Saturday (Nov. 14)

Villanova University - Rhetoric - Received email for interview for rhetoric position (11/9)

- Journalism/Media Studies - Received invitation (11/10) for interview on Saturday.

Willamette - Rhetoric Position


 * Scheduling NCA interviews (10/23)--contacting by phone
 * Can you tell me when you submitted your application materials? Thanks and congratulations!


 * I submitted mine electronically, on the 19th
 * Same here, and was contacted on 10/23 for NCA interview.