ASU Faculty Position in Psychology for Media Arts and Sciences

[Stephen McAdams <smc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Psychology for Media Arts and Sciences

The Arts, Media and Engineering Program (AME) (http://ame.asu.edu ) and 
the Psychology Department (http://www.asu.edu/clas/psych) at Arizona 
State University are announcing an opening for a tenure-track, 
assistant professor in psychology for media arts and sciences.

AME is a joint program of the Fulton School of Engineering (FSE) and 
the Herberger College of Fine Arts (HCFA). The goal of AME is 
transdisciplinary research and education in the integrated development 
of experiential media systems. The program has established its own 
graduate interdisciplinary curriculum which includes AME concentrations 
in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Dance, 
Music, Theater and Visual Arts and is adding concentrations in 
Psychology, Bioengineering, Education and Kinesiology. AME has 
state-of-the-art media facilities.

The Department of Psychology is among the largest and most popular 
departments on the Tempe campus, with 51 faculty, nearly 120 graduate 
students and over 1700 undergraduate majors that participate across six 
basic training areas.   The mission of the department is to foster an 
environment that both promotes innovative, cutting edge research and 
involves students at all levels of the University.   Faculty and 
students are actively involved with a number of centers, institutes and 
research groups on campus that promote transdisciplinary approaches to 
issues of local and national significance, affording outstanding 
research and training experiences that extend beyond traditional 
disciplinary boundaries

 The successful candidate will contribute significantly to the joint 
AME/Psychology research and education efforts on perception and 
modeling of experiential media systems and will strengthen the 
collaboration of the two programs.   These efforts will be integrated 
with the work of the five key AME research areas: sensing; perception 
and modeling; feedback and interaction; experiential construction; and 
learning and knowledge. The appointee will mentor students in the 
Psychology/AME concentration and co-mentor students in the other 
concentrations. The teaching assignment will include specialized 
courses in multimodal perception and cognition for media, dynamic 
modeling as well as other related psychology courses. Three-fourths of 
the appointment will be with AME and one-fourth with Psychology.

 Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in Psychology OR Media Arts and 
Sciences OR closely related field and a scholarly record in psychology 
with emphasis on media applications.

 Desired Qualifications: Interdisciplinary experience in research 
spanning Psychology and Media Arts and Sciences; teaching experience at 
the university level; leadership experience; evidence of funded 
research; effective communication skills.

 Application Deadline: January, 10 2006; if not filled, every FOUR 
weeks thereafter until search is closed. Anticipated start date is 
August 16, 2006.

 Application Procedure: Send a letter of interest, CV, representative 
publications or multi-media demos of related work and names, addresses 
and telephone numbers for three professional references to: Chair, 
AME/Psychology Search Committee, Box 878709, Tempe, AZ, 85287-8709.   
Background check required for employment.   For more information, write 
to:  ame-psychology@xxxxxxx .
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