36.3739, Jobs: General Linguistics: Black Digital Studies Professor, University of Rochester: Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies

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Date: 04-Dec-2025
From: University of Rochester: Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies [fdiblackstudiesevents at gmail.com]
Subject: General Linguistics: Black Digital Studies Professor, University of Rochester: Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies

Job Location: New York, USA
Web Address: https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aas/
Job Title: Black Digital Studies Professor
Job Rank: Rank Open
Salary: $90,000-$390.000

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics

Other Specialties: Please see list in description
Description:
Open Rank Position in Black Digital Studies
The Department of Black Studies and the Frederick Douglass Institute
at the University of Rochester invite applications for an open rank
position in Black Digital Studies. The Department is interested in
exceptional applicants whose research and teaching focuses on the
relationship between Black Studies and Digital Studies with a social
science emphasis. The Department is seeking to hire a scholar whose
work demonstrates a deep commitment to understanding how digital
technologies intersect with structures of power, race, and gender. We
are interested in applicants whose research and teaching moves beyond
representation to consider the epistemological nature of digital
technologies and the relationship between the digital and the
construction of Blackness.
We are interested in a scholar working in areas that may include (but
not limited) the following:
 - Algorithmic oppression, bias, and racism (i.e., health, education,
criminal justice system)
 - AI, race, and questions of the human
 - AI, eugenic infrastructures, and racism
 - Black digital studies and approaches to technofascism
 - Intersections between Black digital studies and Black game studies
 - Virtual reality and other immersive technologies (VR, AR, XR)
 - Robotics, machine bias, and racism
 - Data ethics and practices
 - Data justice and digital democracy
 - AI and African and/or Black language models
 - Black digital studies/technologies and the environment
 - GIS, and geospatial analysis, visualizing, and mapping technologies
and techniques
 - Black feminist digital studies
 - Black digital studies, health, and medicine
 - Black digital archives and scholarly approaches to digital
archiving practices
 - Network analysis and text mining
 - Inequality and Digital Access
 - Behavioral economics and digital life
Successful candidates will be trained in social science theories and
methodologies including, but not limited to, digital ethnography, text
mining, web scraping, word frequency analysis, and other qualitative
and quantitative methods in Digital Studies. We are particularly
interested in scholars trained in Black Studies and who bring new
inter-and multi-disciplinary perspectives to Digital Studies within US
and/or African Diaspora, which includes Africa, Latin America, and the
Caribbean.
The department seeks a scholar who has a strong record of publication,
teaching, and service. We seek a scholar who is committed to the field
of Black Studies and who has a demonstrated commitment to mentorship
at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The University of Rochester is committed to identifying scholars doing
path-breaking research on Blackness that will enhance the university’s
strategic direction in this area. Though this position is 100% in
Black Studies, we are particularly interested in applicants who can
forge cross-campus collaborations with other academic programs and
community partners, and scholars who will lead the development of
curricula and programming in Black Digital Studies across the
University.
We are open to candidates with a Ph.D. in any Social Science
discipline, including Black Studies, Africana Studies, African
Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, Pschology, Political
Science, Geography, Communication Studies, Information Sciences,
History, Environmental Studies, Health, Economics, Political Science,
Social Work, Linguistics, Computer Science, Urban Studies and/or
Planning, etc.
The term of appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2026. Review
of applications will begin on December 19.
Salary Range (accounts for disciplinary differences, market
competitiveness, and candidate experience):
Assistant Professor           (90, 000-160,000)
Associate Professor          (115,000-250,000)
Full Professor                     (135,000-390,000)
Interested candidates should submit applications via Interfolio,
https://apply.interfolio.com/177985, January 2, 2026. The dossier
should include:
Assistant Professor:
 - PhD must be in hand by July 1, 2026, for appointment at this rank.
 - Cover letter that describes candidate’s research agenda, overview
of teaching experience and pedagogical practice, and commitment to
interdisciplinary/multi-disciplinary research.
 - Curriculum vitae
 - Writing sample (20-30 pages)
 - Names and contact information for three letter writers
Associate and Full Professor:
 - Cover letter that describes candidate’s research agenda, overview
of teaching experience and pedagogical practice, evidence of
curriculum development and programming specific to Black Digital
Studies, and commitment to interdisciplinary/multi-disciplinary
research.
 - Curriculum vitae
 - Names and contact information for three letter writers
For more information about The Frederick Douglass Institute and
Department of Black Studies, please visit the departmental website
https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aas/, or contact the chair of the search
committee, Jordache A. Ellapen, jellapen at UR.Rochester.edu.

Application Deadline: 02-Jan-2026
Mailing Address for Applications:
        All applications accepted via Interfolio.
        USA
Email Address for Applications: jellapen at UR.Rochester.edu
Web Address for Applications: https://apply.interfolio.com/177985
Contact Information:
        Jordache A. Ellapen
        Email: jellapen at UR.Rochester.edu

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