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The Department of Communication at NC State is an accomplished community of students, staff members, teachers and researchers with varied intellectual interests in the communication arts and sciences. Through our teaching, research and service, we cultivate responsible, caring and collaborative communication practices for our students, our community partners and the global citizenry. We do this because communication is central to addressing the significant challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century and we are committed to enabling people, organizations and communities to thrive.

Our Department’s curricular domains include interpersonal communication; organizational communication; rhetoric; media studies; public relations; media production; and science, health, environment, and risk communication ( SHER ). We serve approximately 800 undergraduate Majors, 50 minors in Science Communication, and 40 graduate students. Faculty also teach in the Department’s Master of Science in Communication program and in its interdisciplinary doctoral program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (in partnership with the Department of English).

NC State promotes an integrated approach to problem solving that transforms lives and provides leadership for social, economic and technological development across North Carolina and around the world. NC State’s land grant mission of teaching, research and service is dedicated to the service of North Carolina and its people. Applicants are encouraged to review the institution’s mission, vision and strategic plan, and consider how their background, interest and experience would enable them to support the university.

The Department of Communication at North Carolina State University invites applications for an open rank tenure/tenure-track Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Communication specializing in science communication, beginning August 16, 2027. We seek a community-engaged scholar whose research demonstrates a passionate commitment to the study and practice of science communication, including topics such as (but not limited to) public trust in science, dis- and misinformation, public engagement in science, audience engagement, message design, research translation, and science literacy.

The position is intended to complement and extend existing strengths in the Department, including interpersonal communication, organizational communication, public relations and strategic communication, rhetoric and civic engagement, and science, health, environmental, and risk communication. We welcome candidates whose research on science communication intersects with one or more of these areas or develops new connections among them. This position is part of the Leadership in Public Science Faculty Cluster, created in 2016.

Cluster members—both individually and collaboratively—advance scholarship, teaching, and service to deepen our understanding and practice of the public’s engagement with science on campus and beyond. The…