Professor of Journalism, PhD Program, Communications: Tenure Track; Open Rank (Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor)

The Columbia Journalism School (www.journalism.columbia.edu) currently seeks a full-time professor (rank open) to join the faculty of our interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Communications. This program connects the practice of journalism with the humanities and the social sciences to generate original research on the relationships between people, institutions, and media in their cultural, social, political, historical, economic, and technological contexts.

The successful candidate should have an ambitious research agenda and a distinguished publishing record as well as experience in and passion for supervising Ph. D. students. The candidate should also be adept at working with faculty members in various disciplines throughout the university.

Students in our program craft individual research agendas that draw on the university's resources in the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, and the professional schools.

We are particularly interested in candidates with research agendas in one or more of the following fields: Science, Technology, and Society (STS); media law and policy; media history; global media; journalism studies; race and gender and media; and/or social media and public life.

The interdisciplinarity of our program is evidenced by this brief list of the dissertation topics of some of our recent graduates: conservative social media influencers; native advertising; the ordinary person's experience of appearing in the news; the making of a left-wing Spanish political party in the digital age; the surveilling of religious expression in the U.S.; binge-watching and media habits; sabotage and speech in U. S. progressive-era politics; and media, trust and political polarization in the U.S. and Germany. The successful candidate should be able and eager to work with students of such wide-ranging interests.

The successful candidate should have a Ph. D. in hand by the date of the appointment.

This position is expected to begin no earlier than January 1, 2027, pending budgetary and administrative approval. The search will remain open no less than thirty days after posting and until the position is filled.

A Ph.D. degree is required.

The successful candidate should have an ambitious research agenda and a distinguished publishing record as well as experience in and passion for supervising Ph. D. students. The candidate should also be adept at working with faculty members in various disciplines throughout the university.

We are particularly interested in candidates with research agendas in one or more of the following fields: Science, Technology, and Society (STS); media law and policy; media history; global media; journalism studies; race and gender and media; and/or social media and public life.

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Pay Transparency Disclosure

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.