Assistant Professor - Information Science

University of California Berkeley

Application Deadline: Nov 1, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for appointment to the faculty at the Assistant Professor rank.

Information is the core discipline upon which the School of Information is based. At its simplest, information can be thought of as data with context, and information can be leveraged to create metadata, new data, new information, and/or new knowledge. As the world has evolved and new technologies for managing and manipulating data and information have emerged, so has our field. Information seeking, information management, information use, information architecture, information retrieval, informatics, digital humanities, cultural analytics, information visualization, information economics, information provenance, information veracity, and the philosophy of information are key specialties within the discipline.

We seek applicants who can address key questions like how should metadata and categories be designed, and what are the social consequences of those technical choices? What is the relationship between information, misinformation, and disinformation, and what are the social psychological underpinnings of their spread? How should data and information systems be designed, and how can these systems be audited and governed? How is information collectively created, and how does this differ between, for instance, scholarly publishing and social media content? What are the unintended consequences that emerge from the ways information is designed and used? What are the implications for various information systems in real-world contexts such as science, health, policy, business, law, or other areas?

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