Assistant Professor of Gender and Communication

The Department of Communication in the College of Communication, Media, Design and Information (CMDI) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) invites applicants for a tenure-track, assistant professor position in Gender and Communication. Eligible candidates will have expertise, as well as a robust agenda and developing record of research, in aspects of gender that connect with, expand, and deepen the Department’s strengths in one or more of its three core areas : Community & Social Interaction, Organizational Communication, and Rhetoric & Culture. Broadly speaking, this means that eligible candidates will study gender and communication in terms of discourse, culture, and community; organizing and institutions; and / or rhetorical critique and praxis.

Strong candidates will demonstrate, in their research and pedagogy, a capacity to inform the complexity of gender as it entangles with multiple relations and technologies of power; for example, through sustained attention to race, sexuality, dis / ability, class, coloniality and imperialism, capitalism and neoliberalism, geopolitics and global flows, environmental / climate politics, computational governance, and / or security and carceral logics and industries. Strong candidates will also be open toward an interdisciplinary orientation, in that their scholarship will be engaged and conversant with historical and contemporary developments in gender studies, such as feminist, queer, and trans theories. Successful candidates will contribute to graduate education, particularly around gender, in ways that build connections across the Department and CMDI. Additionally, they will help to cultivate, teach, and supervise the Department’s undergraduate curriculum and pedagogy related to gender, while also teaching other communication courses related to their expertise.

The position will begin in Fall 2026.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in communication with a specialization in gender and communication (required at the time of appointment) and an emerging record of excellence in service, teaching, mentorship, and research.

Demonstrated experience and commitment to teaching, mentoring, and / or advising students

Ability to contribute across areas of the department and college to research and teaching about gender and communication

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