Dear MAC Members,
I received the note below about a
tenure-track position at Texas A&M. Please pass this info on to colleagues
and graduate students who might be interested. Thanks Lillie Fears
Dear Professor Fears:
Would you please encourage qualified candidates to apply for our
tenure-track position in Gender and Mass Media? Texas A&M hopes to
recruit an outstanding assistant professor to fill this Fall 2008 joint
appointment in its Journalism Studies and Women’s Studies programs. A
position announcement is being sent separately to you.
This position is part of a larger
The Journalism Studies program was created in 2004 and offers an
interdisciplinary minor that emphasizes interaction between students and media
professionals as well as superior classroom and lab instruction. Our
Journalists-in-Residence project gives our students extraordinary opportunities
to build early career networks and provides our faculty with unique teaching
resources. Our Media Internship Program is aided by a scholarship fund
that makes it possible to place our best students with national media outlets
and related institutions.
The 18-year-old Women’s Studies Program offers a well established
undergraduate minor and graduate certificate and is developing an undergraduate
major. In addition to the program director, the program contains a
tenured faculty member who is a joint appointment between Women’s Studies
and the Department of Philosophy, as well as a tenure-track assistant professor
whose line is wholly within Women’s Studies; two tenure-track assistant
professors were hired last year as joint appointments between the program and
the Departments of Communication and Philosophy. Affiliated faculty
members, who have made a formal commitment to teach within the program and to
pursue a research agenda that includes gender studies, come from a wide variety
of departments within and beyond the College.
Additional details about both programs can be found at their respective
websites, http://journalismstudies.tamu.edu/ and http://wmst.tamu.edu/.
For full
consideration, interested candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of research
and teaching interests, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation by
October 1, 2007 to:
Media Studies Search Committee
Women’s
4351 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4351
We appreciate any help that you may be able to provide in encouraging
candidates to apply for this position.
Sincerely,
Randall S. Sumpter,
Coordinator of Journalism Studies
4234 TAMU