Department of Human Centered Design, Cornell University
Tenure-Track, Assistant ProfessorThe Department of Human Centered
Design (HCD) brings multi-disciplinary perspectives together to improve health
and well-being through design. Through transdisciplinary thinking
and expertise, we bring arts and design, material and social sciences,
and the humanities to innovate, investigate, and address real-world challenges
by using analog and digital knowledge, tools, rigorous research methods, and creative
processes. Our faculty includes scientists, artists, anthropologists,
historians, architects, engineers, psychologists, and experts in apparel,
interiors, business, material sciences, and technology. We work together and
collaborate externally with colleagues from across the university, as well as
industry and non-profit community partners, to conduct research and enhance
students’ learning. Using state-of-the-art lab and studio
spaces, we conceptualize,
prototype, and evaluate products and processes that enhance human potential,
health equity, social justice, sustainability, and community flourishing. (https://www.human.cornell.edu/hcd).
We are seeking an exceptional scholar
to join our faculty in the area of Material Science. We welcome scholars
who approach their respective area of expertise from a multi-disciplinary range of perspectives. Research, teaching,
and engagement/outreach interests may include, but are not limited to: - Exploring and critiquing the role of design, management, and material science
in producing, expressing, and shaping human identities, cultures, and communities.
- Generating and translating novel solutions in apparel design,
manufacturing, and material science across a spectrum of
products, practices, and policies to enhance the lived experience and improve
daily life.
- Creating and exploring the potential for new materials
to improve the health of users and the environment.
- Developing and refining new materials, technologies, and embodied environments to produce novel innovations where physical and digital
components interact with humans across scales, from on-the-body to the
inhabited world.
- Creating, evaluating, and applying rapidly
renewable materials and exploring circular,
reuse, and/or disposal processes and their impacts.
The successful candidate will demonstrate the potential to develop a world-class research and design program
that engages with current issues in one or more of the above areas and must provide unequivocal evidence of excellence in teaching and advising at both
undergraduate and graduate levels. Responsibilities include creating a
successful research program; teaching undergraduate and graduate courses;
advising B.S., M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. students; and providing service to the
department and university community. A Ph.D. is required.
HCD has strong connections to
several other units on campus. These relationships support the department’s aim to address
real-world challenges and opportunities through
critical, creative, and collaborative engagement with design.
We seek a colleague who is committed to social and environmental justice and
will advance scholarly and real-world understandings of how design shapes
environments, humans, and the interaction between the two.
Cornell has an ongoing commitment to its founding principle
of educating “any person…in any study,” and the university offers a collegial
and supportive campus atmosphere and high quality of life. Beyond campus,
Ithaca is in the heart of the Finger Lakes region which boasts a vibrant
cultural life amidst breathtaking natural beauty. A wide range of outdoor
activities is close at hand in all seasons.
Cornell also seeks
to meet the needs of dual-career couples,
with both its own Dual Career
program and membership in the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment
Consortium to assist in dual career searches To Apply: Please
submit, via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23585:
In the case where any of these
materials are posted on the Internet, please submit a Word document describing each electronic posting
and include a link (a URL) to it. The starting date for
the new hire may be as early as the Fall semester of 2023, but applications
will be accepted and reviewed until the position is filled. For more information, please contact Sienna Torbitt, slt86@cornell.edu.
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