Faculty Position in Cross-Cultural Cognitive Development
Applications are being accepted for an academic year tenure-track
appointment in Cross-Cultural Cognitive Development at the Assistant
Professor level with a joint appointment in the Experiment Station. Fiscal
year term employment will be offered and continued based on academic
personnel review. Faculty advise and teach at the undergraduate and
graduate levels. Candidates will be expected to teach, develop a research
program which focuses on cultural and other environmental (nutritional,
toxicological) determinants of variations in human cognitive development,
and guide graduate student research. Candidates must hold an earned
Doctoral or equivalent degree in Psychology, Human Development, or related
filed, and a record of research in cognitive development. Knowledge of
brain-behavior relationships is desirable.
Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) is responsible for an
undergraduate degree program which enrolls over 500 majors, and forms the
core faculty for both an M.S. degree program in Child Development and a
Ph.D. program in Human Development. Research and teaching interests of
HDFS encompass the life cycle from birth to old age. Faculty research
includes projects ranging from those focusing primarily on environmental
determinants of behavioral development to projects focused upon the
organismic substrate of such growth. Faculty of HDFS are engaged in
collaborative efforts with faculty from other campus departments such as
Anthropology, Psychology, Nutrition, and Psychiatry, and with researchers
from other University of California campuses as well as other universities
in the United States and abroad.
With their applications, interested parties shouldinstitutional commitment
to the development of a climate and supports equality of opportunity and
respect for differences.