Full or Associate Professor of Design

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts is one of the largest and most comprehensive arts schools in the region. It has over 2,000 majors and offers degree programs in art, dance, film, inter-arts, music, and theatre.

The Department of Visual Art has 21 full-time faculty members and 8 full-time academic staff members and offers BA, BFA, MA, and MFA degrees in the areas of Ceramics, Digital Studio Practice, Fibers, Graphic Design, Jewelry/Metalsmithing, Painting/Drawing, Photography, Print/Narrative Forms, Sculpture, and BFA and MS degrees in Art Education.

In the newly created Design Research Institute, the faculty member will establish an extramurally funded research program to build on outstanding design research. The Design Research Institute fosters design thinking and collaborative design research projects with university departments, corporations and industry in areas such as industrial design, engineering, architecture, business, fresh water sciences, education, human experience, interactivity and informatics.

In the Department of Visual Art, the faculty member will teach design at the professional, graduate or undergraduate level in areas of expertise. Faculty members are expected to contribute to the department, school and university through committee service and faculty shared-governance responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications: Candidate must have a master's degree or doctorate in Design or related discipline.

Preferred qualifications include: evidence of outstanding design research; a history of funded federal grants and/or other funded grants and contracts; a history of collaborative/interdisciplinary research projects; a record of publication and presentation at the national/international level; and teaching experience in a higher education environment commensurate with rank.

Persons interested in being considered for this position must apply through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment Site located at www.jobs.uwm.edu/. The direct link to the posting is http://www.jobs.uwm.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51064.

Completed on-line applications must include a letter of application describing interest in and qualifications for the position; a curriculum vitae which includes applicant's email address; a brief research plan; a teaching statement; A document listing the names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses of three references. Do not include letters of reference with application. In addition, to complete the application, a PDF document with further written and visual documentation of previous and/or current design research must be emailed to [email protected]. Applicants should include their full name in the body of the email.

Additional materials may be requested later by the Search Committee.