Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position

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Cognitive Psychology Tenure-Track Position

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Psychology Department support Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The Department of Psychology has 33 permanent full‑time faculty. In addition to our undergraduate B.S. psychology major, the Psychology department offers an undergraduate degree in behavioral neuroscience, and master’s programs in experimental psychology, school counseling, and mental health counseling. The department houses five primary areas of research and teaching expertise – Developmental, Social, Abnormal, Cognitive, and Neuroscience – as well as interdisciplinary areas and the internationally recognized Center for Cross‑Cultural Research.

The department supports Western’s mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. Please visit the department website to learn more about our mission. As a public institution in a state where students of color make up a growing proportion of high school graduates, Western and the department are strongly committed to effectively serving our increasingly diverse student body.

We highly encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and scholars who are from other populations historically underrepresented in the academy and/or who have experience working with diverse populations.

The Department of Psychology at Western Washington University seeks applicants for a tenure‑track Assistant Professor position with expertise in applied cognitive psychology to begin September 16, 2026.

This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. The position is open with respect to area of expertise. Possible applied topics in cognitive psychology might include, but are not…