The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) seeks to hire up to four outstanding full-time faculty members (rank open) to join our dynamic and collegial School. Preference will be given to the following specializations, but strong candidates in any area are encouraged to apply.

  *   Information retrieval & data analytics--natural language processing, machine learning, and data visualization in application domains such as health, science, and business

  *   Information, technology & society--legal and regulatory environment; political economy of information; responsible and ethical uses of information in a global context; technology and civic contexts

  *   Digital youth--understanding, supporting and enhancing the interactions of youth with digital information and technology

  *   Knowledge organization--information architecture, metadata standards, linked data, cataloging and classification, taxonomy, ontology, indexing, digital asset management, records management

  *   Cultural heritage informatics--contemporary archival research and practice including digital archives; community archives and archiving; convergence of libraries, archives and museums; digital preservation

  *   User experience/Human-computer interaction--social computing, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, social media, computer-supported cooperative work, interaction design, and multi-disciplinary study of the design, use and effects of ICTs

Emily J.M. Knox, PhD, MSLIS

Assistant Professor

School of Information Sciences

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

501 E. Daniel Street, MC-493

Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: (217) 300-0212