Job Notice: Open Rank Tenure Track Position at U.Maryland iSchool -- Socio-technical Cybersecurity
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University of Maryland College of Information Studies
Open Rank Tenure / Tenure-Track Faculty (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor)
Best Consideration Date: 1/4/2019
To Apply: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/65528
A socio-technical approach to cybersecurity recognizes that to protect our information and critical infrastructure we must consider human, social, organizational, economic, institutional, and technical factors, as well as the complex interactions among them. Creating, maintaining, operating infrastructural systems that are resilient in the face of threats that include malicious attacks, random vandalism, natural disasters, and information warfare necessarily requires fundamental advances in our understanding of the socio-technical aspects of cybersecurity.
The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Maryland’s iSchool), invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor or Professor position in socio-technical aspects of cybersecurity. The successful candidate will engage in an active program of high-impact research; provide research advising to students at all levels; develop courses and teach in the College’s undergraduate, graduate, and non-degree programs; and engage in service to the profession and shared governance within the university.
Minimum Qualifications:
The successful candidate will have a strong interest in research and teaching related to socio-technical aspects of cybersecurity. Within this broad domain are a wide range of specific topics, methodological approaches, theoretical perspectives, and disciplines. We welcome applications from scholars interested in any socio-technical aspect of cybersecurity who are working with research grounded in theory, rooted in empirical methods, and producing broadly applicable and transferable results that augment policy, knowledge, and practice.
We seek exceptional candidates with high quality research and publication records in interdisciplinary fields that include or blend social and behavioral sciences, economics, science and technology studies, law, computer science, informatics, information systems, and/or computer science. A Ph.D. or equivalent degree is required at the time of appointment.