Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Organizational Communication & TechnologyApply now DescriptionThe Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin seeks applications for a full-time tenure-track assistant professor faculty member in Organizational Communication and Technology to begin Fall 2027. The Department of Communication Studies is housed within the Moody College of
Communication, which is ranked #1 in the QS World University rankings for Communication and Media Studies among public universities in the United States (and #4 among all universities globally) in 2026. Moody College includes programs in Advertising and Public Relations, Journalism and Media, Radio-Television-Film, and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.The Department of Communication Studies has strong graduate
and undergraduate programs and provides faculty research, teaching, and leadership support/opportunities. At the graduate level, the department is organized into three focal areas: Interpersonal Communication; Rhetoric, Language, and Political Communication; and Organizational Communication and Technology. The faculty are a cohesive group that often collaborates on research with one another, teaches a wide range of
graduate and undergraduate courses, and advises approximately 75 Ph.D. and M.A. students.We welcome applications from scholars who study the intersection of communication, organizing, organizations, and digital technologies, including but not limited to AI. We invite applicants from a broad range of theoretical orientations and methodological approaches, including people with expertise in qualitative, quantitative,
and mixed methods. We are particularly interested in applicants whose research advances our understanding of communication in technology-rich organizational environments and complements the work being done in the Organizational Communication and Technology area. Research in that area currently examines topics such as networks, remote and hybrid work, workplace cyberbullying, AI and automation, human-AI collaboration,
trust in AI and algorithmic systems, digitization and digital media, crises and disasters, hidden organizations, temporality, democratic organizing, team dynamics, (in)visibility management, identity management, emergent and informal organizing, work-life balance, resilience, and wellbeing. Faculty have access to pre-and post-award external funding support and have opportunities to join the vibrant research center
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