Open Faculty position

Tenure-Track, Associate or Full Professor: Fashion Design Management

The Department of Human Centered Design (HCD) brings multi-disciplinary perspectives together to improve health and well-being through design. Through transdisciplinary thinking and expertise, we bring arts and design, material and social sciences, and the humanities to innovate, investigate, and address real-world challenges by using analog and digital knowledge, tools, rigorous research methods, and creative processes. Our faculty includes scientists, artists, anthropologists, historians, architects, engineers, psychologists, and experts in apparel, interiors, business, material sciences, and technology. We work together and collaborate externally with colleagues from across the university, as well as industry and non-profit community partners, to conduct research and enhance students’ learning. Using state-of-the-art lab and studio spaces, we conceptualize, prototype, and evaluate products and processes that enhance human potential, health equity, social justice, sustainability, and community flourishing. (https://www.human.cornell.edu/hcd).

We are seeking an exceptional scholar to join our faculty in the area of Fashion Design Management. We welcome scholars who approach their respective area of expertise from a multi-disciplinary range of perspectives. Research, teaching, and engagement/outreach interests may include, but are not limited to:

Exploring and critiquing the role of design and management in producing, expressing, and shaping human identities, cultures, and communities.
Examining the social, behavioral, philosophical, industrial, political, and economic forces that fuel consumption, production, regulation, distribution, and representation of fashion in both material and media forms.
Generating and translating novel solutions in apparel design and manufacturing across a spectrum of products, practices, and policies to enhance the lived experience and improve daily life.
Analyzing the impacts of fashion trends on mental and physical health.
Innovating, leveraging, and evaluating technologies that increase efficiency, transparency, and traceability in fiber, textile, and apparel production.
Developing environmentally and socially responsible design practices and possibilities that have a beneficial impact on ecologies, social spaces, justice-oriented efforts, industries, individuals, and communities.
Scrutinizing the relationship between fiber, textile, and fashion industries with sustainability broadly defined.
Creating, evaluating, and applying rapidly renewable materials and exploring circular, reuse, and/or disposal processes and their impacts.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the potential to develop a world-class research and design program that engages with current issues in one or more of the above areas and must provide unequivocal evidence of excellence in teaching and advising at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Responsibilities include creating a successful research program; teaching undergraduate and graduate courses; advising B.S., M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. students; and providing service to the department and university community. A Ph.D. is required.

HCD has strong connections to several other units on campus. These relationships support the department’s aim to address real-world challenges and opportunities through critical, creative, and collaborative engagement with design. We seek a colleague who is committed to social and environmental justice and will advance scholarly and real-world understandings of how design shapes environments, humans, and the interaction between the two.

Cornell has an ongoing commitment to its founding principle of educating “any person…in any study,” and the university offers a collegial and supportive campus atmosphere and high quality of life. Beyond campus, Ithaca is in the heart of the Finger Lakes region which boasts a vibrant cultural life amidst breathtaking natural beauty. A wide range of outdoor activities is close at hand in all seasons. Cornell also seeks to meet the needs of dual-career couples, with both its own Dual Career program and membership in the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium to assist in dual career searches.

To Apply: Please submit, via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23564:

For more information, please contact Sienna Torbitt, slt86@cornell.edu

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor: Material Science

We are seeking an exceptional scholar to join our faculty in the area of Material Science. We welcome scholars who approach their respective area of expertise from a multi-disciplinary range of perspectives. Research, teaching, and engagement/outreach interests may include, but are not limited to:

Exploring and critiquing the role of design, management, and material science in producing, expressing, and shaping human identities, cultures, and communities.
Generating and translating novel solutions in apparel design, manufacturing, and material science across a spectrum of products, practices, and policies to enhance the lived experience and improve daily life.
Creating and exploring the potential for new materials to improve the health of users and the environment.
Developing and refining new materials, technologies, and embodied environments to produce novel innovations where physical and digital components interact with humans across scales, from on-the-body to the inhabited world.
Creating, evaluating, and applying rapidly renewable materials and exploring circular, reuse, and/or disposal processes and their impacts.

To Apply: Please submit, via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23585:

For more information, please contact Sienna Torbitt, slt86@cornell.edu.

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor: Health Equity

The Department of Human Centered Design (HCD) brings multi-disciplinary perspectives together to improve health and well-being through design. Through transdisciplinary thinking and expertise, we bring arts and design, material and social sciences, to innovate, investigate, and address real-world challenges by using analog and digital knowledge, tools, rigorous research methods, and creative processes. Our faculty includes scientists, artists, anthropologists, architects, engineers, psychologists, and experts in apparel, interiors, material sciences, and technology. We work together and collaborate externally with colleagues from across the university, as well as industry and non-profit community partners, to conduct research and enhance students’ learning. Using state-of-the-art lab and studio spaces, we conceptualize, prototype, and evaluate products and processes that enhance human potential, health equity, social justice, sustainability, and community flourishing (https://www.human.cornell.edu/hcd). HCD is a partner in the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures.

We are seeking an exceptional scholar to join our faculty in the area of Health Equity. We welcome scholars who approach their respective area of expertise from a multi-disciplinary range of perspectives to develop evidence-based critical solutions to improve lives and address current critical topics with specific attention to bridging the disparities regarding human health. This position may be supported in part by Cornell University’s FIRST program (Cornell FIRST), a grant from the NIH’s Common Fund’s Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Program, to recruit early-career faculty who have a demonstrated commitment to inclusive excellence. The successful candidate will join our current faculty in linking theoretical research in science, technology, architecture, engineering, mathematics, and design to applied research innovation and outreach. Research, teaching, and engagement/outreach interests may include, but are not limited to:

Generating and translating novel solutions across a spectrum of products, practices, and policies to enhance the lived experience and improve daily life.
Exploring and critiquing the role of design and/or materials in producing, expressing, and shaping human health and well-being of individuals and communities.
Developing and refining new materials, technologies, and embodied environments to produce novel innovations where physical and digital components interact with humans across scales, from on-the-body to the inhabited world.
Developing environmentally and socially responsible design and management practices that have a beneficial impact on individuals, communities, and the environment.

The successful candidate will demonstrate potential to develop a world-class, externally funded research and design program that engages with current issues in one or more of the above areas. Candidates must provide evidence of excellence in teaching and advising at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Responsibilities include creating a successful research program; teaching undergraduate and graduate courses; advising undergraduate and graduate students; and providing service to the department and university community. A Ph.D. is required.

To Apply: Please submit, via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23888:

For more information, please contact Sienna Torbitt, slt86@cornell.edu.

Open Rank, Tenure Track Faculty Position

The Department of Human Centered Design (HCD) integrates analog and digital knowledge, tools, methods, and creative processes from design, humanities, social sciences, engineering, and physical sciences to address real-world challenges and enrich people and their environments (https://www.human.cornell.edu/hcd). We are seeking to appoint an exceptional design-research scholar at Assistant, Associate or Full Professor rank in any of the following or related foci:

Emerging Technologies for Design—developing, testing, and understanding the place of interactive, adaptive, and sustainable technologies and methods in creative processes, practices, and design outputs (materials, systems, tools, and digital fabrication & manufacturing).
Smart Interfaces: developing and testing smart interfaces manifested as near-body environments, objects, and spaces that enhance human-agent-materials relations.
Design of Interactive Systems across Scales, from materials, to wearables, to objects, to indoor environments, to the outdoors (and beyond).
Design with Embedded Artificial Intelligence supporting and augmenting human activity, collaboration, and behavior in ethical and inclusive ways.
Hybrid Design: bio-design and bio-digital hybrids that enhance human-agent-materials relations.

Qualifications:

The new faculty member will be expected to develop an externally funded research program of international distinction with a deep, impactful record of research publications, teaching excellence, and design distinctions. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, advising B.S., M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. students, and providing service to the department and university community. Prior to the appointment start-date, applicants must have earned a Ph.D. in an area of design, architecture, media arts, human computer interaction, robotics, computer science, materials science & engineering, biological systems, or another area suggested by the foci listed above.

Housed in state-of-the-art teaching and laboratory facilities, HCD has strong connections to several other units on campus, including Computer and Information Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Human Development and Psychology. These connections support the department’s aims to design for real-world challenges and opportunities and advance understanding of how people and their environments interact and are enabled, supported, and augmented by design. Cornell has a historical commitment to educating “any person…in any study” and strives to offer a high quality of life, providing a collegial and supportive atmosphere on campus. Beyond campus, Ithaca is in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, and both Cornell and Ithaca offer a vibrant cultural life and a wide range of sporting and outdoor activities close at hand.

Cornell also seeks to meet the needs of dual career couples, with both its own Dual Career program and membership in the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium to assist in dual career searches.

To Apply: Please submit, via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24117

For more information, please contact Sienna Torbitt, slt86@cornell.edu.