Assistant/Associate/Professor in Advertising (OPEN RANK, 2 positions)- Fall 2025

Description

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (2 positions) - Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations, Full Time - The University of Tennessee Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations seeks to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor as well as an assistant professor position to begin August 1, 2025.

Qualifications

The Tombras School seeks colleagues with expertise in advertising and a contemporary understanding of the changing aspects of the field. The ability to teach in one or more of the following areas is strongly desired: principles, research, graphic design, issues, media, management, issues, and campaigns. A Ph.D. at the time of the appointment in communications with a concentration in advertising, equivalent, or other relevant fields and evidence of excellence in teaching and research commensurate with appointment at a Carnegie classified Research 1 University are required. Professional experience is preferred. ABDs will be considered for the rank of Assistant Professor.

The successful candidates will demonstrate the potential to receive externally funded research. Responsibilities include maintaining an active program of research, teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses, and performing service to the school, college, university, and discipline. The salary for the positions is competitive and commensurate with experience.

§  Candidates for Assistant Professor should have a demonstrated potential to succeed as a junior faculty at a state flagship campus such as University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

§  Candidates for Associate Professor should have a demonstrated record of publishing in top publication venues and service to both their research fields and their home institutions.

§  Candidates for Professor should be nationally recognized researchers with active and distinct research agendas. A record of or potential for obtaining external funding is also desirable.

 

Application Instructions

Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations

 

Housed in the College of Communication and Information, the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations makes history as the first named school at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the first named school of advertising and public relations in the SEC and among all land-grant institutions in the country. Details on its vision for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts as well as its mission to be a leading academic institution in the fields can be found here.

The Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations includes 18 full-time faculty members who engage in quantitative and qualitative research with the goal of advancing public relations and advertising theory and informing practice. The school offers coursework at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The School includes approximately 600 undergraduate majors and 35 M.S. and doctoral students. Visit the websites for the College and School for more information.

 

The College of Communication and Information

 

The College of Communication and Information (CCI) consists of four schools: Advertising and Public Relations, Communication Studies, Information Sciences, and Journalism and Media. CCI has approximately 1,500 undergraduate majors (across five undergraduate majors in advertising, public relations, communication studies, information sciences, and journalism and electronic media) and approximately 420 graduate students (including a College-wide M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communication & information and an M.S. degree in information sciences). The College’s Research & Innovation Center (RIC) provides a wide array of support services for CCI faculty interested in pursuing sponsored research. The Center involves dozens of researchers across various disciplines and agencies to focus the array of talent in CCI, the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and other research institutions in the pursuit and conduct of sponsored research. College-wide research facilities include: the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center, the Scripps Convergence Lab, a User Experience Lab, and a Message Effects/Focus Group Lab.

 

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