Open Faculty and Post-Doc Positions
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track: Education, Culture & Society
The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level in the Education, Culture and Society program. We are looking for an anthropologist or a scholar in a related field who has conducted long-term ethnographic research on educational processes and settings, either inside or outside schools. The successful candidate will be broadly trained in social theory and will have made or have promise to make conceptual as well as empirical contributions to educational scholarship. We would prefer someone who conducts ethnographic research outside the U.S., but we will consider strong candidates who work domestically. The ideal candidate would have an interest in teaching masters and doctoral level courses in social theory, anthropology and education, and ethnographic research methods. We seek a highly promising early career scholar with a strong commitment to research, publishing, and graduate teaching and mentoring, with a track record or at least commitment to securing external support for his/her research. Successful candidates will have their Ph.D. in hand by June 2012. We will begin reviewing applications on October 3, 2011 but will continue to consider new applications until the position is filled.
Please submit a letter expressing your interest and general qualifications, curriculum vitae, names of three references, and reprints of publications and relevant manuscripts with your application. Please address all correspondence to Chair, Search Committee, ECS.
Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics
The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure track position (assistant or associate) in our division of Educational Linguistics. The candidate should have an earned doctorate in educational or applied linguistics, second language studies, or a related field. Ideal candidates will have expertise in language learning and teaching in one or more of the following settings: K-12 schools, higher education or community programs, in national or international contexts. Candidates should have an active program of research focused on second language studies, second language acquisition/socialization, or TESOL and English as a global language, with one or more of the following additional emphases: technology and new media, heritage language teaching and learning, critical language awareness, corpus analysis, sociocultural and cognitive perspectives on language and literacy, and multilingualism in educational policy and practice.
We are interested in a scholar whose abilities and interests relate to students at both doctoral and master's levels, and who can offer courses, as well as supervise, guide, and conduct research germane to the interests of professional language educators and educational researchers. We anticipate that the appointment would be made at the assistant/associate professor level, and will begin July 1, 2012. We will begin reviewing applications on October 3, 2011 but will continue to consider new applications until the position is filled.
Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, select publications and names of three references by October 3, 2011. Address all correspondence to Chair, Search Committee, TESOL.
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track: Education Leadership Program
The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track position in Educational Leadership. The successful candidate will have (1) an earned doctorate in education or a related field, with a strong background in educational research on leadership; (2) training in a relevant disciplinary perspective, like sociology, history, psychology, organizational development, educational finance; (3) experience with and the disposition to work with practitioners on educational leadership issues. The successful candidate will teach classes about leadership and related topics and will conduct research on educational leadership. The successful candidate will also teach in one or more of the executive leadership programs, chair committees in the Mid-Career doctoral program, and contribute to cross-school programs within the Graduate School of Education. We seek a highly promising early career scholar with a strong commitment to research, publishing and graduate teaching and mentoring, with a commitment to securing external support for his or her research.
We will begin reviewing applications on October 3, 2011 and we will continue to consider new applications until the position is filled. Please submit a letter expressing your interest and general qualifications, curriculum vitae, names of three references and reprints of publications and relevant manuscripts with your application. Please address all correspondence to Chair, Search Committee, Leadership.
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track: Literacy Education
The University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education, Reading/Writing/Literacy Program invites applications for an assistant professor, tenure-track position in literacy education, beginning September 2012. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research programs center on the interdisciplinary study of literacy and language, reading and writing in educational settings broadly construed, with a preferred emphasis on secondary English/literacy education, urban and multicultural school/classroom-based research and pedagogy, and a commitment to educational practice and issues of equity. The successful candidate will be expected to teach masters and doctoral courses and to participate in our urban school-university partnerships, nationally recognized research centers, and/or other post-secondary collaborative programs within and outside the University.
The program in Reading/Writing/Literacy prepares masters and doctoral students for careers in research, teaching, and leadership in schools, colleges, universities, and community-based adult and family literacy programs. The successful candidate will join a collaborative, interdisciplinary faculty committed to improving public and community-based education through exemplary applied research. Preferred candidates will have a strong interest in instructional practice, teaching experience in secondary, post-secondary and/or adult settings, and research interests which include some combination of the following: adolescent literacies, writing, literary theory, English Education, young adult literature, and digital media/technologies in 21st century literacy education. We seek a highly promising early career scholar with a strong commitment to research, publishing, and graduate teaching and mentoring, with a commitment to securing external support for his or her research.
We will begin reviewing applications on October 3, 2011. Please submit a letter expressing your interest and general qualifications, curriculum vitae, names of three references, and reprints of publications and relevant manuscripts with your application. Address all correspondence to Chair, Reading/Writing/Literacy Search Committee.
Post-doctoral Fellowship Position
The Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania is seeking applications for a 1-year post-doctoral fellowship position to participate in research and project management in three NSF-funded projects beginning October 15, 2011 or sooner.
- ITEST-Nano: Nanotechnology and Bioengineering in Philadelphia Public Schools
- ARIEL (with the Franklin Institute Science Museum): Augmented Reality
for Interpretive and Experiential Learning
- DRK12 BioGraph (with MIT): Graphical Programming for Constructing
Complex Systems Understanding in Biology
The position entails working on an interdisciplinary team as a research and co-project manager for three NSF-Funded projects. Descriptions of each project may be gleaned from the titles. For further information, please contact Susan Yoon below.
Experience and skill in some or all of the following is an asset:
quantitative analysis including, regression, multilevel modeling, survey and scale design, and experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
Applicants who do not have extensive quantitative methods experience but have deep and varied experience in qualitative analyses and methods can apply. Other experiences in management of large data sets, classroom observations, professional development, grant proposal writing, and curriculum design are also favorable.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or Ed.D. in education. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Please submit a cover letter, a CV, and a representative piece of writing to Susan Yoon, yoonsa@gse.upenn.edu.
Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship in Education Policy
The University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education is hiring a two-year postdoctoral fellow. Preferred start date is between May 1st and September 1st, 2012. The fellowship includes a salary of $50,000 per year, plus health insurance, and generous funding for conference travel, professional development, and a computer fund.
This post-doctoral fellowship is designed to foster fellows as independent scholars. Emphasis is on developing and/or refining the fellow’s methods, design, fieldwork and/or substantive area expertise in education impact research, providing opportunities for scholarly publication and the development of the fellow’s independent research agenda. No teaching is required for this position. Approximately half of the fellows time will be spent on their own independent research, and half on collaborative research projects, described below.
While all are invited to apply, we have targeted the program to two types of fellows.
One is an applicant strong in methods and analysis, who wants to hone those skills and acquire more sophisticated design, measurement, and statistical skills in an applied setting, while developing insight and understanding of education issues and gaining experience with education research. This might be a candidate from a field such as economics, sociology, psychology, or political science.
Another type of applicant may have a solid foundation in education, but wants to develop more sophisticated and rigorous design and statistical analysis skills, while gaining deeper insight and experience with specific education policy issues and conducting fieldwork in schools. This might be an applicant from an education school.
The program, broadly focused on the effects of policy on teaching and learning, targets three main areas: 1) theory, 2) research design and methods, and 3) fieldwork.
The research projects that fellows will participate in are designed to allow fellows to perform at the highest levels of methodological and substantive rigor. Fellows will have the opportunity to choose among several projects: These include:
- a mixed method longitudinal study of math teachers’ mentoring and induction and their effects on teacher knowledge, instruction, and student achievement;
- a randomized experiment designed to test the effectiveness of a cognitive science curriculum/professional development intervention in middle school science;
- the psychometric validation of a cutting-edge leadership assessment, and;
- longitudinal multi-level analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort, to examine the effects of instruction on the achievement gap.
These projects offer opportunities for developing expertise in 1) qualitative analysis and fieldwork, including development and analysis of surveys, interviews and classroom observations, 2) the measurement of instruction, 3) multi-level longitudinal modeling, 4) Item Response Theory (IRT), 5) psychometrics, 6) design and analysis of randomized experiments, 7) designing customized student assessments, and 8) studying education policy implementation.
Fellows will be encouraged to take leadership roles on the projects in which they participate. Projects are at various stages, so there are opportunities for designing instruments, conducting fieldwork, and analysis of already collected data.
Fellows are also invited to participate in the seminars and methods modules that are part of Penn’s IES pre-doctoral fellows program (see http://www.gse.upenn.edu/pimfer/overview.html ).
Fellows will work on collaborative interdisciplinary project teams which include public policy analysts, psychometricians, sociologists, economists, and others. The program will also include opportunities for writing research proposals, both for independent projects and for extending the current projects.
For breadth of experience, fellows will have both a primary and secondary mentor. The primary mentor will be Laura Marie Desimone, associate professor of public policy and education, or Andrew Porter, George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education and Dean of the Graduate School of Education. Collaborators who might serve as secondary mentors include Robert Boruch (psychologist/statistician), or others at the University of Pennsylvania, depending on the fellows’ area of interest.
Applicants must have received their doctoral degree by the start date. Three letters of recommendation, a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and two publications or papers should be sent to lauramd@gse.upenn.edu . In your letter of interest, please specify how your interest, expertise and targeted areas for development fit with the proposed projects, and what you hope to gain from a postdoctoral fellowship position. The deadline for applications is November 4. We will continue to review applications after that, as needed. Please direct inquiries to Professor Laura M. Desimone at lauramd@gse.upenn.edu.
The U.S. Department of Education requires that fellows be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to diversity.