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Assistant/Associate Professor of AI and Communications (TT)

Main Campus - Boston, MAMain Campus - Boston, MA
R11077

ABOUT SIMMONS

Located in Boston's historic Fenway area, Simmons University has a strong tradition of empowering women and challenging traditional gender roles. Simmons was founded for equality 125 years ago as one of the first higher education institutions dedicated to helping women become leaders. Today, our university continues to grow and evolve and now offers Boston's only women's undergraduate program and graduate programs open to all.

You're joining our community at an especially exciting time as we continue to innovate for the future. Simmons recently launched a six-school academic structure that leverages our expert faculty and longstanding expertise in professions that make our communities stronger. In addition, we continue to highlight our high-value education proposition that is delivering greater ROI to students and putting them on the fast track to career growth and success. You'll find that people who work here truly believe in our mission of preparing students to become social justice-oriented leaders who excel in their professions and their communities. This commitment and pride make for a dynamic workplace.

As a university that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, Simmons encourages applications from all under-represented groups. Simmons is committed to creating, developing, promoting, and enhancing inclusive hiring practices-at all levels, for all positions-ensuring diverse talent pools and the delivery of a consistent positive candidate experience. Simmons is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to continuing to develop a more diverse faculty, staff, student body, and curriculum.

ABOUT THE SCHOOL
The Communications Department is housed in The Gwen Ifill School of Media, Humanities and Social Sciences, which was launched in 2018. As a pioneering Black woman journalist, Gwen Ifill broke through barriers of prejudice and stands as a model of professional excellence and a purposeful life. The Ifill School aims to carry on that legacy for the next generations. To that end, we are a community of educators and learners guided by intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and generosity of spirit. We derive strength from our differences and pursue civic engagement through humanistic inquiry that values language, lived experience, artistic expression, and imagination. We give voice to our stories, past and present, individual and global, told and untold, to influence a future whose questions have yet to be asked. Our students view society through the multi-faceted lenses of language, narrative, art, music, film, and contemporary media.

ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS
The Communications Department at Simmons provides intellectually and experientially rigorous paths of study in Journalism, Design, Integrated Media, and Media Studies. Our interdisciplinary hybrid graduate degree in the intersection of AI and communication launches in Fall 2026. We seek a scholar and or educator whose research and teaching critically examine the intersections of artificial intelligence and communication. The ideal candidate will explore how AI technologies shape, mediate, or disrupt human communication, media ecologies, and sociocultural systems. This position welcomes interdisciplinary approaches grounded in critical theory, media studies, science and technology studies (STS), ethics, or cultural studies.

JOB SUMMARY
The Communications Department in the Gwen Ifill School of Media, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Simmons University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment in Communications to begin Fall 2026. Appointment at the Associate Professor position will be made based on evidence of a substantial record of advanced research and the level of leadership in the candidate's field of specialization. We seek a dynamic educator and scholar with expertise in Communication, Journalism, Design and AI. Candidates whose scholarship intersects with algorithmic bias, digital media, environmental justice, sexuality, disability, class, or global inequalities are strongly encouraged to apply.

The candidate will teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in digital culture and communication, media analytics, machine learning tools and their media implications, and communications research methods. Courses should integrate critical analysis of AI's impact on media and society, while exploring the development of ethical communication strategies within these contexts. There are opportunities to develop curricula in both undergraduate and graduate programs.

Beyond teaching, duties include scholarship or creative work, remaining current and engaged in the field, advising students in the Communications program, and serving on department, college, and university committees that advance the institution's mission.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Teach three on-the-ground undergraduate and three synchronous online graduate courses each year;
  
• Participate in course design and the ongoing creation and revision of curricula in consultation with faculty and program leadership;
  
• Participate in ongoing Department curricular planning and periodic program review;
  
• Serve the department, school, and university through committee work and student engagement efforts;
  
• Serve as a major advisor for students, tracking their course plans and progress towards their degree;
  
• Maintain an active research agenda, which may include written scholarship and/or practice as research as appropriate to the candidate's discipline.
  

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. in Communications or related discipline required;
  
• Demonstrated record of teaching at the university level;
  
• Commitment to collaboration across the department, school, and university;
  
• Active scholarly agenda.
  

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
We will begin reviewing applications on Aug 15.

Required Application Materials

To apply, submit the following materials online at jobs.simmons.edu:

• letter(s) describing your interest in the position and your teaching experience and philosophy;
  
• research/writing sample;
  
• CV.
  

Name of references will be requested for short-listed candidates.
Please address any questions to ifilldean@simmons.edu

Instructions to Applicants: Please upload all applicable application materials (e.g. resume/cv, cover letter, writing sample, teaching philosophy, etc.) in the Application Materials box on page 2 ("My Experience") of this application. Documents can be uploaded individually or as a combined document (e.g. PDF).

Simmons University is committed to inclusive excellence in all aspects of an individual's community experience. As a university committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Simmons encourages applications from all under-represented groups. Simmons is committed to creating, developing, promoting, and enhancing inclusive hiring practices-at all levels, for all positions-ensuring diverse talent pools and the delivery of a consistent positive candidate experience. Simmons is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to continuing to develop a more diverse faculty, staff, student body, and curriculum.


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Located in Boston's historic Fenway area, Simmons University is a small, private, non-sectarian College which has educated students for enriching careers and purposeful lives since 1899. Working at Simmons means joining a collaborative, diverse and mission-driven community of educators and professionals.

We prepare students to be leaders for themselves, their communities and the world. Our faculty and staff members lead by example - sharing a commitment to excellence and putting the students first.