Assistant Teaching Professor - Data, Design, and Development for a More Just World
Position Description
The University of Washington Information School is seeking a creative and energetic individual to teach the study, design, and development of information technology for the good of people, organizations, society, and the environment. The successful applicant will be expected to be 1) an engaged teacher and mentor, 2) an expert in one or more domains of information technology below, and (3) engage diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the context of teaching technical topics.This is an opportunity to add your voice and expertise to a diverse, intellectually stimulating, and interdisciplinary academic environment committed to social justice.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach and address sociotechnical issues in one or more of the following areas (listed alphabetically):
- Cybersecurity
- Data Science including Analytics, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Databases and Data Modeling
- Client-side and Server-side Web Development
- Human-Computer Interaction and Design
- Data Visualization
- Mobile App Development
- Networking, Cloud, and DevOps
- Software Engineering
While technical expertise in the above is key, the successful applicant will be expected to address ways in which technology can be designed and used to oppress, exclude, or harm people, societies and the environment (e.g., via inaccessible user interfaces, exclusionary data schemas, misleading data visualizations, exploitative data collection practices, racially biased applications of machine learning). The successful applicant will be expected to engage with social justice in their teaching of technical topics (e.g., using approaches such as value sensitive design, design justice).
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