Back to Listings Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor Communication & Journalism Location College Station Open Date 8/13/2026 Position ID 188570 Description The Department of Communication and Journalism in the College of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Journalism to join its Journalism & Media Practices Division. This full-time, nine-month faculty
appointment has an anticipated start date of August 1, 2027. This position is part of a strategic faculty cluster examining the communicative foundations of democratic society. Through coordinated hiring across the department's three academic three academic divisions—Humanities & Critical/Cultural Studies, Communication & Media Science, and Journalism & Media Practices—Texas A&M University is investing in scholarship
that advances understanding of communication, public knowledge, citizenship, civic participation, and the institutions and practices that sustain democratic public life. The initiative reflects the department's commitment to strengthening each of its scholarly traditions while fostering intellectual exchange across complementary perspectives on communication and public life. We seek a scholar whose research advances
scholarship in journalism and media through the study of how journalism, news, and media institutions produce, distribute, and sustain public knowledge in democratic society and evolve as democratic institutions. Competitive candidates will demonstrate a promising and theoretically grounded program of scholarship examining the evolving roles of journalism, information systems, media institutions, and public
communication in informing publics, fostering civic participation, and supporting democratic life. We welcome scholars using a wide range of rigorous methodological approaches whose work contributes to advancing scholarship in journalism and media through research that is theoretically significant, methodologically rigorous, and socially consequential. Successful candidates will be expected to develop and sustain a
strong program of scholarship, publish in leading scholarly outlets, demonstrate evidence of capacity to secure external funding appropriate to their career stage and area of scholarship, teach foundational courses and courses in their area of scholarly expertise, and contribute to departmental, university, and professional service. As a member of the Journalism & Media Practices Division, the successful candidate
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