Assistant Professor

AACTE Connect360; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Michigan invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor in media psychology to begin August 25, 2027. The position emphasizes innovative research and teaching in how individuals and communities engage with mediated communication.

Applicants should have a PhD by start date; the ideal candidate will contribute to graduate and undergraduate instruction, mentor students, and participate in service while advancing interdisciplinary research using diverse

Qualifications

• PhD by start date is required.
• Strong commitment to teaching and research in media psychology.
• Ability to teach graduate and undergraduate courses.

Responsibilities

• Conduct and publish research in media psychology.
• Teach graduate and undergraduate courses.
• Mentor graduate and undergraduate students and contribute to service.
• Collaborate across disciplines and contribute to the department's scholarly community.

Job description

The Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) seeks to hire a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor to teach and conduct research in media psychology, to begin August 25, 2027.

The preferred candidate will demonstrate an innovative research agenda that advances the understanding of media psychology (i.e., uses, processes and eects) at the individual, community, and/or societal level.

We are particularly interested in applicants who use innovative methods and approaches in their research and teaching, including experiments, surveys, content analysis, meta-analysis, computational methods, psychophysiological methods, neuroimaging or other

social scientic techniques. Scholars utilizing a range of methods, and/or who supplement quantitative methods with qualitative approaches, are welcome.

The ideal candidate will provide graduate and undergraduate students with the theoretical and methodological foundations to explore how individuals and groups of people interact with, and are aected by, mediated communication. This may include the processes and eects of media use in relation to a person’s identity, attention, stage of development, or other contextual factors; choices for exposure; and how people’s emotions, cognition and perceptions interact with media—both as recipients and as active users.

All areas of media psychology will be considered. This could include scholarship on media choice; psychological antecedents and consequences of media use; representations of gender and/or sexuality and their consequences; representations of race and ethnicity and their consequences; media uses and eects among members of understudied and/or marginalized groups; media uses and eects through the life course; media eects on health, risk, and environmental behavior; media eects on cognitive processing and learning; media and children; media and well-being; new and emerging media (e.g., social media, virtual reality, AI, etc.).

In the letter of application, the applicant should elaborate on how they have and/or would support interdisciplinarity, appreciation for research traditions other than their own, and collegiality in a department with a great deal of intellectual diversity.

A PhD by the start of the appointment is required.

Job duties include research activity, teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses, mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students, and service to the department, school, university, and profession.

• Applicants should submit a letter of application
• a curriculum vitae
• a statement of current and future research plans
• a statement of teaching philosophy and experience
• a statement of activities that demonstrate leadership and service
• up to three representative publications or other writings evidence of teaching excellence
• contact information for three recommenders. Letters will be requested after the rst round of review.

Review of dossiers will begin on September 15, 2026; applications received after September 11, 2026 may not receive full consideration.

Employment will require a successful criminal background check and candidates must meet all degree requirements prior to the start date of the position. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.