Tenure Track Assistant Professor (2), Queens College (CUNY), New York, NY
Posted October 20, 2022
Description:
The Graduate School of Library & Information Studies (GSLIS) at Queens College, City University of New York, has two positions for Tenure-track Assistant Professor. The GSLIS is the only publicly supported American Library Association accredited school of library and information studies in the metropolitan New York City area. Queens is nicknamed “The World’s Borough” as a reflection of its status as the most diverse county in the US and the world’s capital of linguistic diversity.
Assistant Professor Tenure-Track with a strong background in children’s and youth media and culture.
Qualified candidates will have research and teaching expertise as well as practical experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Engage in scholarship and teaching supporting historically underrepresented children and young adults in public libraries
- Culturally-relevant perspective on children’s media and culture
- Youth activism and social justice
- Scholarship and teaching supporting historically underrepresented groups, diversity, equity, and/or social justice.
- Knowledge of and experience with methods for engaging multilingual children and their families.
- Experience addressing/challenging education disparities among Latinx, Black and/or Native American and Indigenous populations.
- Current children and young adult media, both in print and other formats; including but not limited to, picture books, graphic novels, games and social media.
Assistant Professor Tenure-Track In pursuit of the goals of CUNY’s Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative, GSLIS seeks candidates with the ability to employ perspectives from critical race studies, Indigenous methods, environmental justice, and queer studies. Qualified candidates will have research and teaching expertise as well as practical experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Social and community informatics; the digital divide; public infrastructure for information use.
• Geographic information; the critical use of mapping technologies; the social uses of spatial data; geographic information systems or data visualization.
• Digital spaces; virtual and augmented reality; online information cultures; information activism.