[Air-L] Assistant Professor-Integrated Security

[Jeremy hunsinger]

The Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track
position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position will have a
focus on Integrated Security and will begin August 10, 2020. Teaching
requirements for this position will be four courses a year (2:2).

This position will support the University's Destination Area Strategic
Initiative on Integrated Security. Virginia Tech is seeking faculty
specifically interested in engaging with research and curricular
initiatives that support innovation and problem solving in areas such as
cybersecurity, data analytics, privacy and ethics, network governance, and
multiple forms of global (financial, election, human, infrastructure,
network, transportation, and social media) security. The Department of
Political Science is the anchoring host department for the Integrated
Security Destination Area's Pathways minor.

http://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/512795/assistant-professorintegrated-security

The Department of Political Science seeks broadly trained applicants,
technically proficient in transdisciplinary security studies. For further
information on the Integrated Security Destination Area, see
https://www.provost.vt.edu/destination_areas/areas_of_focus/da_is.html; for
further information on the Integrated Security Minor,  see
https://www.pathways.prov.vt.edu/minors/is.html.

Applicants should be prepared to offer a variety of courses at the
undergraduate and graduate levels. There will be occasional travel to
attend national conferences and meetings. Candidates from diverse
backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will be
required to have a criminal background check.

The Carnegie Foundation classifies Virginia Tech as a university with “very
high research activity,” and the Department of Political Science also has a
strong record of excellence in teaching. Members of the Department work
closely with faculty in transdisciplinary programs, including the
Integrated Security Destination Area, the Alliance for Social, Political,
Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT), the School of Public and
International Affairs (SPIA), Women’s and Gender Studies, Africana Studies,
and the Department of Science, Technology, and Society.

Required Qualifications

A Ph.D. in Political Science or a closely related field required by the
time of appointment. Candidates must have evidence of an active research
agenda and demonstrations of teaching effectiveness to meet the
Department’s key teaching needs in its B.A. and M.A. programs. Applicants
are required to have training in the politics of evolving contemporary
systems for hybrid cyber-warfare, cyber-conflict, cyber-institutions, and
cyber-defense capability, which bridge the fields of Russian, Eurasian, and
global politics.

Preferred Qualifications

Preference will be given to those with prior experience with and/or
substantive training in network analysis, game theory, data analytics,
statistics, conflict modelling, text analysis, and real-time online
conflict simulation experiments as well as expertise in great power
strategic competition tied to Russian, Eurasian, and Southwest Asian global
conflicts.
more information at link above
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jeremy hunsinger
Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech

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