Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Personality Psychology

Department: Psychology
Rank: Assistant Professor
Annual Basis: 9 Month

Application Deadline

November 1, 2024; position open until filled

Required Application Materials

Applicants are asked to apply online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28354 by submitting a cover letter, curriculum vitae, three representative publications, and three statements: 1) research accomplishments and future plans (research statement), (2) teaching experience and approach (teaching statement), and 3) personal contributions to foster an environment of equity and inclusion for faculty, staff, and students from diverse backgrounds (DEI statement). We encourage candidates to speak to their understanding of dimensions of diversity attained through personal experiences and/or investment in learning about the experiences of underrepresented individuals in their statements. Three letters of recommendation will be requested if applicants advance to further rounds of consideration.

Position Announcement

The University of Oregon’s Department of Psychology invites applications for an Open Rank (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor) tenure-track position in Social-Personality Psychology to begin in Fall 2025. We particularly welcome applicants whose work emphasizes advanced quantitative methods for investigating individual differences (broadly defined) in topic areas such as Personality, Health Psychology, or Social Cognition. These methods include, but are not limited to, structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, intensive longitudinal analysis, psychometrics, Bayesian inference, network analysis, and machine learning. Successful candidates will contribute to research, teaching and mentorship, and leadership within the Social-Personality area.

The Department of Psychology at University of Oregon is a leading institution in the study of personality and individual differences, and the Social-Personality area includes faculty who do work on a broad range of topics and using a variety of methodologies. Excellent candidates will contribute to theoretically grounded, foundational research on topics related to individual differences in one or more areas within social and personality psychology and adjacent fields, for example personality structure and stability, interpersonal perception and judgment, or individual differences in health behavior. Several Social-Personality area faculty are also members of our Diversity Science cluster, and we particularly encourage applications from scholars who are from groups historically underrepresented in the academy.

Department or Program Summary

The primary goal of the Department of Psychology is to cover the entire field of basic psychological research. Department faculty group themselves into four major areas: Clinical, Cognitive/Systems Neuroscience, Developmental, and Social-Personality. The Clinical doctoral program has been continuously accredited by the American Psychological Association since 1958, is a member of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science and has been accredited by the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System since 2013. Our department values interdisciplinary collaboration and embraces the values of open and reproducible science. Further, we embrace basic as well as translational work with potential for societal impact.

Applicants for this position may be interested in the department’s connections and collaborations with the School of Computer and Data Sciences as part of UO’s recent Data Science Initiative, and access to UO’s high-performance computing resources (https://racs.uoregon.edu). Furthermore, applicants may also be interested in the department’s Diversity Science emphasis area, which includes faculty across the department's four major areas, and the department's involvement with the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health. Located on the UO's new Portland campus, this Ballmer Institute is focused on improving the behavioral health and wellness of children and adolescents in Oregon and beyond.

Our faculty believes innovation occurs where traditional areas intersect. We pride ourselves on fluid area boundaries and cross-area collaborations. A large share of the collective research activity occurs in projects that involve multiple faculty members within the department. In addition, our faculty engage in productive research collaborations with faculty in other UO departments as well, including: Anthropology, Architecture, Biology, Data Science, Economics, Education, Human Physiology, Philosophy, and Physics.

Minimum Requirements

• Ph.D. in Psychology or a related field (e.g., Public Health) at the