Associate Professor of Health Communication at the Borders

Description

The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (HDSHC) and the School of Transborder Studies (STS) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University invite applications for a full-time, tenured position as Associate Professor holding a joint appointment in the HDSHC and STS. Applicants’ scholarship and teaching should focus on health communication and southwest border issues. Salary will be competitive based on qualifications. We encourage applications from scholars who work at the intersection of health communication as it relates to migration, border-crossing, health disparities, patient-provider relationships, medical technologies, mental/behavioral wellbeing, resilience and quality of life, health campaigns, using AI to solve medical problems, and disrupting mis/disinformation that impacts health. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain a rigorous research program at the intersections of health communication and the southwest borders; teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both units; contribute to curriculum development and graduate advising in both units; serve on school, college, and university committees; and provide service to professional associations and the community. The candidate will be in residence on the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of August 2025.

HDSHC, one of the premier schools for studying human communication, offers interdisciplinary Ph.D., M.A., B.A., and B.S. degrees in communication studies. The School’s mission is to produce cutting edge and interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching that responds to pressing issues in the world today. HDSHC faculty members and graduate students embrace a variety of theoretical, methodological and paradigmatic lenses, and study a variety of research topics spanning health, intercultural, interpersonal, and organizational communication as well as performance, and rhetoric. To learn more about the HDSHC, please visit https://humancommunication.asu.edu/.

STS aims to create new understandings and challenge old understandings of borders as well as facilitate social change in collaboration with transborder communities. We leverage our interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological expertise to educate and innovate in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, with implications for borders and transborder communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and around the world. To learn more about STS, please visit https://sts.asu.edu/.

The two schools actively collaborate with other units and centers at the university, including the following: Hispanic Research Center, Latina/os and American Politics Research (CLAPR), American Indian Policy Institute, Center for Indian Education, Center for Asian Research, The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies, Black African Coalition and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict.

About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large, multicultural and curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.

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