Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Communication in Media Industry Studies

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Communication in Media Industry Studies

Location:

Annenberg School for Communication

Open Date:

June 1, 2026

Deadline:

August 31, 2026, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

The University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication is seeking to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position in Media Industry Studies to begin the fall semester of 2027.

We are seeking a productive researcher, engaged scholar, and committed teacher/mentor who studies critical approaches to media industries and their intersections with media policy, political economy, advertising, and surveillance. The ideal candidate will be familiar with the historical and shifting structural and material conditions transforming the media industries, whether economic, technological, political, legal, regulatory, and socio-cultural factors. Of notable interest are critical scholars who consider how power operates within these industries and the larger socio-political relationships within which they are embedded.

The Annenberg School for Communication is a graduate school dedicated to the study of communication theory and research, with 24 full-time faculty members and approximately 80 doctoral students representing a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds and interests. The faculty also has primary responsibility for an undergraduate communication major within the School of Arts and Sciences, serving students interested in the study of communication from a liberal arts perspective.

In addition to its doctoral program, the School offers a Master of Communication and Media Industries (MCMI) program, which enrolls cohorts of approximately 15 students seeking advanced professional training in media and communication. The ideal candidate would be expected to engage in the new MCMI program.

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in the fields of communication, media studies, behavioral social sciences, economics, or related disciplines by the start of their appointment and demonstrate excellence in teaching, as well as a publication record indicative of promise for leading scholarship in this field.

Submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, three names of references, and three articles, chapters, or other research to Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser, Dean, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania via Interfolio. For full consideration, applications must be submitted by Monday, August 31, 2026.