Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Media Law and Technology

Department: School of Journalism and Communication
Rank: Open Rank Professor (updated)
Annual Basis: 9 Month

Application Deadline

November 15, 2024 (updated); position open until filled

Required Application Materials

We invite applications from qualified candidates who share our commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning and work environment. Employment begins September 16, 2025.

To ensure consideration, please submit application materials by November 15, 2024 (updated). The position will remain open until filled. Interested applicants should submit:
• a letter of interest (cover letter);
• an academic CV;
• contact information for three academic references;
• a diversity statement (see below).

As part of the application process, applicants seeking faculty positions at the University of Oregon are asked to submit a statement about their past, present, and future contributions to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in their professional careers. For example, you may have worked with members of communities or local governments in politics, or university constituents such as students, staff, or faculty to further the goals of equity and inclusion.

In evaluating statements of contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, search committees often consider the applicants:
• Awareness of inequities and challenges faced by underrepresented minority students and faculty.
• Track record (commensurate to career stage) of activities that reduce barriers in education or research for underrepresented minority students and faculty.
• Vision and plans for how their work will continue to contribute to UO's mission to serve the needs of our diverse state and student population and create an inclusive campus.

We particularly welcome applications from scholars who are from populations historically underrepresented in the academy, and/or who have experience working with diverse populations. Applicants are encouraged to highlight their experience and philosophy with regard to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to address how they integrate these values in research, teaching, engagement, and/or service.

Specific inquiries about the position may be directed to the search chair: Bryce Newell, Associate Professor, SOJC Eugene, at: bcnewell@uoregon.edu.

Position Announcement

The University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC) seeks a tenure-track faculty member at the assistant, associate, or full professor rank with research and teaching expertise in the use, adoption, and regulation of new and emerging information and communication technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), forms of immersive media (VR/AR/XR), and/or digital platforms (including, but not limited to, social media and/or digital games). Applications are especially welcome from more senior scholars with First Amendment/press freedom expertise. A successful candidate will be expected to teach our required undergraduate course in media/communication law, as well as other courses in their area of specialization, including in our thriving Eugene-based undergraduate programs in Media Studies, Journalism, Advertising, and Public Relations. The candidate may also contribute to our professional master’s programs, including our master's program in Immersive Media Communication (based in Portland) and our PhD program in Communication and Media Studies. They will be eligible to supervise and mentor graduate students in the SOJC’s graduate programs and undergraduate students in the SOJC Honors Program.

Senior scholars with significant expertise in First Amendment law (including freedom of speech and freedom of the press) may be considered for an endowed chair.

We seek an outstanding scholar and educator whose research and teaching are focused on some or all the following areas:

1) How the law regulates new and emerging information and communication technologies including, but not limited to, generative AI, immersive media (XR/VR/AR), and/or digital platforms;
2) How these technologies regulate human behavior;
3) How the use, adoption, and regulation of these technologies can be informed by diverse approaches to human values, ethics, and critical approaches to technology, data, media, and/or information; and
4) Related issues of media and technology law, including free speech and the First Amendment, privacy, surveillance, and/or platform regulation.

A successful candidate will have expertise in US media law, including the First Amendment, but expertise in international or comparative media and technology law, the intersection of geopolitics and technology regulation, and/or in evaluating emerging policy proposal