Assistant Professor of Psychology

Posted on May 28th, 2024 by Travis Dix

The Department of Psychology invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant/Associate Professor rank to begin August 2024/January 2025. Applicants must be a psychology generalist with interest and ability to teach core classes including Learning Theory, Statistics for the Social Sciences, and Research Design & Analysis.  Courses in our current Biological Psychology concentration include Physiological Psychology, Sensation & Perception, and Memory & Cognition.  Candidates should also be able to teach lower division undergraduate courses in the discipline including Psychology as a Social/Natural Science and Developmental Psychology.  Other candidates with a Ph.D. in a related area of psychology with interest and ability to teach the aforementioned lower and upper division undergraduate courses in the discipline will also receive consideration.  Candidates must have a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as intrinsic aspects of excellence in teaching and mentoring. Women and minority candidates who would contribute to diversifying our faculty are strongly encouraged to apply.  Faculty teach 12 credit hours per semester and are expected to participate in university governance through committee work, departmental collaboration, and academic advising. ABD applicants meeting the same qualifications will be considered but will be employed at a non-tenure-track rank of instructor until the Ph.D. is conferred.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in psychology from an APA-accredited doctoral program and regionally accredited college/university conferred by the time of appointment. Demonstrated excellence in teaching.
  • Experience teaching and mentoring students from underrepresented groups, including racially minoritized students, and cultivating inclusion and belonging.

Alternative Qualifications

Master’s-level candidates with each of the following will be considered at the non-tenure-track instructor level, with potential to qualify for tenure-track and promotion in the future:

  • Master’s degree from a Psychology program and regionally accredited college/university;
  • Demonstrated excellence in teaching

Submit letter of interest, current resume/curriculum vitae (CV), teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness, statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and three professional references to:

Selection Committee, c/o Psychology Department Chair 

Email address: [email protected]

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