Communication Studies 2008-2009

For the 2008-2009 job search season

This page covers communication studies/communications and mass communication (advertising, journalism, PR).

Positions Open--Please move jobs down the list of categories as you find out information and then delete the outdated information

 * Boston College (research methods)
 * Cal State Long Beach (communication theory)
 * Catholic University
 * Central Michigan University (3: new media, PR, visual)
 * Coastal Carolina University (PR)
 * Dominican University (Rhetoric)
 * Duquesne University (broadcast/electronic media)
 * Fordham (film/tv)
 * Iowa State (human computer interaction)
 * Lehigh University (new media/convergence)
 * Louisiana State (media law/print journalism)
 * Middle Tennessee State University (3 positions: communication disorders, interpersonal communication, rhetoric)
 * Northwestern University-Medill (integrated marketing communications)
 * Ohio University (3: health comm, rhetoric/public advocacy, technology)
 * Penn State (2: telecom/"Digital society", interpersonal)
 * Pepperdine (2: interpersonal/intercultural, PR/advertising)
 * Purdue University (PR)
 * Queens College (media historian)
 * Rutgers (health)
 * Seattle University (social interaction)
 * St. Bonaventure (advertising)
 * SUNY Albany (interpersonal and health)
 * SUNY New Paltz (interpersonal)
 * Syracuse University (2: advertising, newpaper journalism)
 * Temple (advertising)
 * Texas A & M (health)
 * Texas Christian University (2: advertising, journalism)
 * Texas State University, San Marcos (organizational rhetoric/rhetorical methods)
 * Texas Tech University (2: advertising, PR)
 * University of Alabama (Interpersonal/ Intercultural) (Organizational)
 * University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (Organizational, Small Group, and/or Interpersonal Communication)
 * University of California, San Diego (film/new media)
 * University of Cincinnati (new media)
 * University of Colorado-Boulder (advertising/new media, law*(law is cancelled))
 * University of Colorado-Denver (communication and diversity)
 * University of Denver (intercultural)
 * University of Florida (advertising)
 * University of Illinois (3: 2 advertising, interpersonal)
 * University of Iowa (2: interpersonal and rhetoric)
 * University of Maryland (2: both PR)
 * University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2: media and society, quantitative research)
 * University of Massachusetts-Amherst (intercultural/international/global)
 * University of Michigan (2: race/ethnicity in media, political comm)
 * University of Minnesota (3: journalism, history/mass comm, PR)
 * University of Missouri (2: interpersonal, political comm)
 * University of North Carolina at Charlotte (health)
 * University of Puget Sound (comm studies - theory and research)
 * University of San Francisco (interpersonal/social interaction)
 * University of South Carolina (3: health comm (1), mass comm (2)--all open rank)
 * University of Tampa (advertising)
 * University of Tennessee (2: sports journalism/new media journalism)
 * University of Texas-Austin (4: 2 advertising, communication and humanities, health comm)
 * University of Wisconsin- Madison (strat comm)
 * University of Wisconsin - Madison (television)
 * University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (intercultural/global)
 * University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (2: advertising, online publishing)
 * Vanderbilt University (rhetoric/public address)
 * Washington State University (intercultural/international media)
 * West Virginia University (open specialty)

Requested More Information

 * Texas State University, San Marcos (letter rec'd 9/16)
 * Texas State University, San Marcos (Letter rec'd 10/14)
 * Marquette (letters of recommendation)
 * Catholic University (10/12)

Phone Interview

 * Ball State University (rhetoric)
 * Iowa State (PR): scheduled for 10/10
 * SUNY Albany
 * College of Charleston
 * Ohio University (rhetoric)
 * Cal State Long Beach

Meeting at NCA

 * James Madison University (Conflict position)
 * Dartmouth
 * Fairfield University
 * Syracuse University (critical/cultural studies & rhetoric)
 * Ball State University (rhetoric)
 * University of Illinois (interpersonal)
 * Dominican University (contacted on 11/11) (rhetoric)
 * SUNY New Paltz (interpersonal)
 * Gustavus Adolphus
 * Willamette
 * Lewis and Clark (rhetoric/forensics)
 * University of Colorado Denver

Rejection Letter Received
Concordia College (basic course director position) 10/22
 * Dartmouth (speech position, November 7th)
 * Northwestern (Medill school, 11/1)

Scheduled On-Campus Interviews

 * University of Illinois (advertising)
 * University of Denver
 * University of Southern California (race/ethnicity)
 * Colorado State University (conflict)
 * Syracuse University
 * University of Minnesota
 * Elizabethtown College

Search Cancelled

 * UMass Amherst - International/Global
 * UMass Amherst - News and Society
 * Austin College - Rhetoric/Critical
 * UMass Amherst - Qualitative
 * UMass Amherst - Quantitative
 * Villanova University - Rhetoric
 * Villanova University - Performance Studies
 * Penn State - telecom/"Digital society" (e-mail sent out Nov 4, 2008)
 * Arizona State University (2: rhetoric and sexuality or ethnicity; rhetoric and critical cultural studies) - not cancelled; but delayed indefinitely
 * USC-Aiken - generalist and PR
 * South Carolina - Rhetoric

Questions/Comments

 * Has anyone heard anything the three Middle Tennessee State University positions? Are they interviewing at NCA?