Pratt Institute
Application Deadline: November 1, 2024
A top-ranked college with opportunities in art, design, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, and information studies, Pratt offers nearly 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The School of Information (SI) at Pratt Institute has been educating information professionals for nearly 135 years. SI, one of six schools within Pratt Institute, offers rigorous, interdisciplinary, student-centered programs at the intersection of information, knowledge, and culture. We enroll over 300 graduate students in our Masters programs in Library and Information Science, Information Experience Design, Museums and Digital Culture, and Data Analysis and Visualization. We pride ourselves on providing a vibrant and diverse community of scholars, designers, and learners committed to using information and technology to improve lives and communities. We seek a new faculty member who will help advance our mission to lead the information field, through teaching and research, in making connections with arts, culture, and technology. Today, Pratt is committed to advancing social justice, environmental sustainability, and accessibility through our curriculum as well as increasing diversity in the ranks of our faculty, students, and staff. We seek applicants who can contribute to the furtherance of these goals as well as advancing antiracism and decolonization efforts.
Position Summary: The School of Information (SI) at Pratt Institute seeks to hire one full-time tenure-track faculty member at the assistant professor level. We seek a full-time faculty who can contribute notably to our M.S. Library and Information Science program.We are open to a wide range of interests from the field of Library and Information Science. Potential areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Academic librarianship and scholarly communication
Reference and Instruction
Archives and preservation
Misinformation and disinformation studies
Connections between LIS and art, design, and architecture
Activism and advocacy
Civic/community engagement
Special collections and ephemera
Sustainability and LIS
Engagement with users/stakeholders and UX librarianship
Data literacy and Data librarianship
Information ethics, policy and justice
Makerspaces and other emerging models of instruction in libraries
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