Job Overview
The exciting
interdisciplinary PhD in Educational
Neuroscience (PEN) program at
Gallaudet University (Washington, D.C.) is seeking applicants with an expertise
in Cognitive Neuroscience-Educational
Neuroscience at the assistant or associate professor level for two (2) tenure-track
positions beginning in fall, 2015.
Postion 1:
Candidates with a vibrant Cognitive
Neuroscience-Educational Neuroscience (specifically, neuroimaging) research
program, with a strong focus on children,
and who advance understanding of the neural basis of learning in one or more of
the following scientific areas (encompassed within the discipline of
Educational Neuroscience), will be seriously considered: language/bilingualism,
reading/literacy, math/numeracy, science/higher cognition, or social/emotional
learning.
Position 2:
Candidates with a vibrant Cognitive
Neuroscience-Educational Neuroscience (specifically, neuroimaging) research
program, in adults and/or children,
in one or more of the following areas, will be seriously considered: human motion perception and generation, human brain
mechanisms for multisensory integration of motion
and vision, mirror neurons, the interface of human motion perception/generation and technology (Avatar, Robotics,
Motion Capture), the brain’s translation of rapidly-changing motion and visual information into
meaningful action, for example, in face perception, language perception and
generation (signed or spoken), biological motion or reading.
Gallaudet’s PhD in Educational Neuroscience (PEN)
program (launched fall 2013) pioneers new Cognitive Neuroscience and
Educational Neuroscience science especially involving how children learn. The
successful candidate will be housed in the PhD in Educational Neuroscience
program and will enjoy an affiliation with one of PEN’s five affiliated
departments as per the candidate’s scholarly research and expertise (e.g., Psychology,
Linguistics, Hearing Speech and Language Sciences, Interpretation or Education).
The new faculty member will have vibrant opportunities to work collaboratively
with members from the home PEN program, the five affiliated departments, the
consortium of universities in the Greater Washington DC Area, and, importantly,
an extensive network of scholars available via the National Science
Foundation’s Science of Learning Center
at Gallaudet University, Visual Language
and Visual Learning, VL2, and VL2’s three Resource Research Hubs, particularly,
the Brain and Language Laboratory for Neuroimaging (BL2). As a core mission outgrowth of Gallaudet’s NSF
Science of Learning Center, VL2, the PEN program is thus linked with an active
network of leading world scholars in Cognitive Neuroscience, neuroimaging, language and
bilingualism, reading and literacy, and higher cognition, in both hearing
children and the young deaf visual learner, and American Sign Language.
Gallaudet’s PEN PhD program is also
propelled by the goal of achieving great excellence in teaching, and to provide its students with the most cutting-edge
knowledge, healthy and lively critical analysis and discussion, strong
mentorship, and a great richness and diversity of career paths.
Qualifications
Position 1 & 2: Candidates must show (i) significant potential for innovation,
scholarship, and commitment to excellence in research and teaching.
Additionally, candidates
must have (ii) a PhD or EdD in Cognitive Neuroscience
or Educational Neuroscience; (iii) strong
evidence of foundational research training in the Cognitive Neurosciences with
specific neuroimaging expertise (e.g., fMRI, EEG, fNIRS, MEG); (iv) an
innovative research program that links (or has the potential to link) Cognitive
Neuroscience research outcomes with learning and education in children; (v)
promising publication record and teaching experience; and (vi) proficiency in American Sign Language and knowledge of
Deaf Culture, or, a demonstrable commitment to develop mastery of American Sign
Language.
Position 1 Responsibilities: The successful candidate will maintain a highly effective
research program in the Cognitive Neurosciences (inclusive of combined neuroimaging
and behavioral experimentation), engage in teaching, graduate student
mentorship, and scholarly dissemination activities that lead to publications
and federal external grant funding. The new faculty position also affords exciting leadership enhancing opportunities
in Gallaudet’s PhD in Educational Neuroscience program through the building and
sustaining of partnerships with other universities and related student
mentoring, and encourages great innovation and creativity in building diverse,
meaningful, and principled two-way partnerships spanning science and society.
Position 2 Responsibilities: The successful candidate will maintain a high-profile
research program in the Cognitive Neurosciences (inclusive of combined
neuroimaging and behavioral experimentation), demonstrate excellence in
teaching, graduate student mentorship, and scholarly dissemination activities
that lead to publications and federal external grant funding. The new faculty position also affords exciting
leadership enhancing opportunities in Gallaudet’s PhD in Educational
Neuroscience program through collaborative building and sustaining of
Gallaudet’s PEN-VL2 Motion Light
Laboratory.
Gallaudet University is a bilingual university and serves deaf, hard
of hearing, and hearing students from many different backgrounds and seeks to
develop a workforce that reflects the diversity of its student body. Gallaudet
is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer
and actively encourages deaf, hard of hearing members of traditionally
underrepresented groups, people with disabilities, women, and veterans to apply
for open positions.
Compensation
Assistant Professor; position pending final approval. Salary
commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Application Information
Review of applications to begin immediately.
Send a curriculum vitae, representative publications, and a detailed
cover letter demonstrating each of the following five (5) points inclusively: (i)
Evidence of your quality of scholarly training and activities specifically in
the Cognitive Neurosciences (with clear identification of your neuroimaging
expertise), (ii) research program, (iii) your unique approach to the emerging
field of Educational Neuroscience, (iv) teaching experiences and teaching
philosophy, and (v) how your expertise in the Cognitive Neurosciences can
inform learning in young children, or, how you plan to do so in the future. Under
separate cover, please have three letters of reference sent; all correspondence
should be addressed to:
PhD in Educational Neuroscience Program Search Committee (Position 1)
Attention: Provost Carol Erting
Gallaudet University
800 Florida Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20002-3695
Review of completed applications will begin January 5,
2014 and continue until the position is filled; employment to
begin Fall semester 2015.
Specific questions may be addressed either to Provost Erting (carol.erting@gallaudet.edu)
or to Professor Laura-Ann Petitto (Laura-Ann.Petitto@Gallaudet.Edu),
Chair, PhD in Educational Neuroscience Steering Committee.
