The University of Washington Tacoma invites applications for a full time tenure-track Assistant Professor in Global Media Studies in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS) Program. The successful candidate will be an intellectually expansive scholar whose research addresses the interdependencies and interconnections of globalization as developed through one or more of the following areas: development communication, reception studies, production studies, social media, convergence technologies, and global health. The successful candidate will build on the critical and cultural studies framework in which the major is situated, and advance a teaching and research agenda that addresses the ways in which new technologies complicate and facilitate transactions in a global society.