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From: cconway@gsu.edu <gsuconway@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:51 AM
Subject: [COGDEVSOC] faculty position in lifespan development at Georgia
State University
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*Assistant Professor of Psychology.  *Georgia State University anticipates
hiring a tenure-track faculty member at the level of assistant professor,
beginning August 2018, pending budgetary approval. The department is
looking for creative and engaging scholars whose research focuses on any
aspect of typical or atypical lifespan development (e.g., infancy, youth
development, emerging adulthood, aging), with preference for candidates who
can contribute to one or more department strengths in language and
literacy, social interventions, cognitive neuroscience, and comparative
cognition. Bolstered by a strong external funding record, high impact
faculty publications, a diverse and large undergraduate major, and a
nationally competitive doctoral program, the Department of Psychology (
http://psychology.gsu.edu) seeks to advance both basic knowledge and
applied scholarship using innovative and diverse forms of inquiry to
address the most challenging issues of the 21st century.

Georgia State University is an enterprising public R1 university located in
downtown Atlanta, a global metropolitan area and one of the largest and
most racially/ethnically diverse cities in the Southeastern U.S. A national
leader in using innovation to drive student success and research growth,
and enrolling and graduating one of the most diverse student bodies in the
nation, Georgia State provides its world-class faculty and more than 50,000
students unsurpassed research, teaching, and learning opportunities. Georgia
State houses several interdisciplinary initiatives and centers in which
psychology faculty are actively involved, including the Georgia
State/Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (
http://www.cabiatl.com/cabi), the Center for Research in Atypical
Development and Learning (cradl.gsu.edu), the Regents Center for Learning
Disorders (http://rcld.gsu.edu), the Gerontology Institute (
http://gerontology.gsu.edu), the Language Research Center (
http://lrc.gsu.edu) and University initiatives in Language & Literacy (
researchlanglit.gsu.edu), Brains & Behavior (
http://neuroscience.gsu.edu/brains-behavior), and the Partnership for Urban
Health Research (http://urban.publichealth.gsu.edu).



Qualified applicants must have a PhD in psychology or related discipline,
be developing an independent research program with strong potential for
external funding, and be committed to the teaching and mentoring of
graduate and undergraduate students. Applicants should submit (1) a cover
letter outlining qualifications for and interest in this position; (2)
curriculum vitae; (3) a research statement describing their program of
research/scholarship including future goals; (4) a teaching statement
describing their general philosophy as well as commitment to teaching a
diverse student body; (5) evidence of teaching effectiveness (i.e. course
syllabi and teaching evaluations); (6) representative publications; and (7)
three letters of recommendation. Submit application materials
electronically to psysearch@gsu.edu. Review of applications will begin
November 1, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. *An offer
of employment will be conditional on background verification. *Georgia
State University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate
against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on
the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected
class.

-- 
Christopher M. Conway, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
P.O. Box 5010
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30302-5010
cconway@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-6300
Fax: 404-413-6218
<cconway@gsu.edu>
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