[Air-L] JOB: Cornell Comm / Science, Environment, and Risk Communication

[danah boyd]

Hi y’all! Cornell’s Department of Communication is searching for an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication as part of a cohort hire for "Creating a Climate-Resilient Future." This is a tenure-track position based in Ithaca, NY. 

For more info, see: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219 



Cornell University, Department of Communication
Assistant Professor
Cohort Hire: Creating a Climate-Resilient Future 
Focus: Science, Environment, and Risk Communication
Department of Communication, Cornell University

Position:	Assistant Professor, Tenure-track.

Location:	Ithaca, NY. The academic home for this position is the Department of Communication, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, housed on the Ithaca campus of Cornell University.

The Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at Cornell University is seeking a highly collaborative scholar to conduct research and teach in the areas of science and/or risk communication. Our new colleague will join a Cohort Faculty Hire in Creating a Climate-Resilient Future. 

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Roadmap to 2050 identifies Transdisciplinary Moonshots—opportunities for the College to collaborate on future-focused, cross-disciplinary scientific breakthroughs and to align research, education, and extension programs for greater impact and stronger connectivity. The Moonshot areas build upon core strengths in CALS, spanning the agricultural, environmental, life, and social sciences, with the goal of recruiting 27 faculty into the College over the next three years. The CALS Roadmap to 2050 spearheads the “solutions century” by collaborating across the university, our network of partners, and diverse communities to coalesce around the world’s leading challenges. We connect across all of New York state and the world to enliven our innovation ecosystem, connecting local to global programs in the form of new collaborations and basic discoveries.

This hiring cohort will advance the CALS Transdisciplinary Moonshot in Creating a Climate Resilient Future. Research in the cohort will unite existing transdisciplinary strengths at Cornell with critical new competencies to help navigate transitions to climate-resilient futures in three interdependent domains: renewable energy, sustainable cities, and agri-food systems. For this position, we are seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track position at the assistant professor level for a risk communication scholar. In addition to this advertised hire, the cohort will include a geospatial analyst, an environmental engineer, a socioecologist, and a landscape architect within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

A track-record of publishing outstanding peer-reviewed scholarship is expected, as is excellence in and commitment to teaching, translation of knowledge, and advising and mentoring of students. We seek a colleague with an outstanding record demonstrating success and promise across all these areas, who will be supported by and contribute to a vibrant culture of inclusive excellence at Cornell. The successful applicant will conduct research and teach in the areas of risk and/or science communication. Risk and science communication are related to our environmental and health communication research areas, which are among the Department’s core strengths. We welcome innovative and imaginative scholars who approach the study of risk and/or science communication from psychological, sociological, or institutional vantage points using quantitative or mixed methods. Scholars with specific expertise in analysis of public opinion related to scientific, environmental, and health issues are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants whose risk communication work also contributes to other core strengths in communication and media studies, information technology, organizations and networks, and/or social justice are similarly encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will become a part of the inclusive community of scholars at Cornell. They will have the opportunity to join multiple graduate fields across the university, including within the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering, and interdisciplinary institutes such as the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture.

For more, see: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219