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Assistant Professor

McGill University logoMcGill University
Montreal, Canada
Deadline: 2026-10-16
Posted: Sep 20, 2026

NL Highlights

Develop and lead an independent research program in democratic and community resilience.
Teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and supervise graduate students.
Contribute to media policy, regulation, and governance, or foster artistic/community engagement with emerging media.

Details

Reference

JR0000080515

Salary & Funding

The award provides $100,000 per year for six years to McGill University to help support the salary costs associated with the successful Emerging Leader appointment as well as direct research expenses, with the possibility of extension for a further six years. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Duration

Six years, with the possibility of extension for a further six years

Contact Info

Darin Barney, Professor and Chair, Department of Art History and Communication Studies (darin.barney@mcgill.ca)

Eligibility

Must be internationally based, working and residing outside Canada, on June 9, 2026.
Must be within five years following the start date of their first research-related appointment, minus eligible delays.
PhD required by McGill for tenure-track, but not for the Impact+ Program itself.
Authorized to work in Canada and willing to work in Quebec.

Next Steps

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Submit application through Workday using the provided link.
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Use a personal email address when creating a Workday account.
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Application package must be a single PDF file (max 5 MB) including:
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Cover letter

Opportunity Overview

TITLE: Assistant Professor

How to Apply:

  • Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply.
  • If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at McGill University), do not apply through this Career Site. Login to your McGill Workday account and apply to this posting using the Find Jobs report (type Find Jobs in the search bar).

The Faculty of Arts at McGill University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position to advance transformational research programs that support the growth of Canada s global leadership in the following strategic priority area:

Democratic and community resilience

Emerging Leaders must have an independent program of research that demonstrates strategic alignment with this priority area. The award provides $100,000 per year for six years to McGill University to help support the salary costs associated with the successful Emerging Leader appointment as well as direct research expenses, with the possibility of extension for a further six years.

Successful candidates will be expected to begin a full-time tenure-track appointment in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor no later than June 9, 2027.

Job Duties

The Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader will develop and pursue a research program aligned with the democratic and community resilience priority area. The successful candidate will also teach undergraduate and graduate courses, develop courses in their areas of specialization, supervise and mentor graduate students in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, and contribute to the intellectual life of the University.

Democratic and community resilience refers to the capacity of political institutions and communities to withstand and respond to pressures including rising authoritarianism and militarism, increasing economic precarity, declining trust in news media, environmental injustice, gendered, ableist, racist and other forms of prejudice and violence, and deteriorating conditions for diversity, equality, and freedom. Emerging communication and media technologies, including social media platforms, proliferating surveillance systems, cryptocurrencies, prediction markets, algorithmic decision-making and accelerating Artificial Intelligence are implicated in these pressures. A Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader will develop critical research and teaching programs that address the social, cultural, political, economic, infrastructural and environmental dimensions of emerging media, across regional, national and global contexts. Successful candidates will demonstrate their potential to contribute to intentional media policy, regulation and governance in the public interest, robust artistic and creative cultures, and/or vibrant community and political engagement with emerging media technologies. We seek candidates whose research centers the priorities, experiences and knowledges of historically and structurally disadvantaged and marginalized people, communities and regions, and who are committed to serving a diverse student body and an inclusive campus climate.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

  • Only candidates who were internationally based, both working and residing outside Canada, on June 9, 2026, are eligible.
  • Candidates must be within five years following the start date of their first research-related appointment, minus the length of any eligible delays in research.
  • Recent graduates and postdoctoral fellows may also be eligible.
  • Research-related appointments are defined as those where the individual has the autonomy to conduct research independently.
  • Eligible leaves, including maternity, parental, medical, and bereavement leave, are credited as twice the amount of time taken. The category and period of eligible leaves should be clearly indicated in the required cover letter. Professional leaves, including training, sabbatical, and administrative leave, are not credited.
  • A PhD is required by McGill University for appointment to a tenure-track position; however, it is not a requirement of the Impact+ Emerging Leaders Program itself.
  • Candidates should review the eligibility and selection criteria for the Impact+ Program prior to applying.
  • Canadians living abroad who wish to relocate to Canada are encouraged to apply.

Application Process

  • Applications must be submitted through Workday, McGill s HR management system, using the link below.
  • Use a personal email address when creating an account in Workday.
  • Refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply.

Required Documents

The application package should include the documents listed below and must be merged into one single PDF file not exceeding 5 MB:

  • Cover letter
  • Curriculum vitae (including links to representative publications)
  • Statement of research describing current and future research, alignment with the strategic priority area, and potential for knowledge translation, mobilization, and application of research results (maximum 2 pages)
  • Research infrastructure needs: laboratory space, equipment (max. 1 page)
  • Teaching statement and dossier (max. 1 page)
  • Contact information for three references

Job Details

  • Job Type: Tenure-track
  • Rank: Assistant Professor
  • Salary: Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience

Posting Period

  • Posting date: Wednesday September 16, 2026
  • Closing date: 30 days from posting date

Inquiries from potential candidates are welcome and will be treated in strict confidence. Correspondence can be directed to Darin Barney, Professor and Chair, Department of Art History and Communication Studies ( darin.barney@mcgill.ca ).

Commitment to Equity and Diversity

Please note that to work at McGill University, you must be both authorized to work in Canada and willing to work in the province of Quebec at the campus where the position is based / located. McGill University offers immigration and relocation support for selected candidates.

McGill University is an English-language university where most teaching and research activities are conducted in the English language, thereby requiring English communication both verbally and in writing.

McGill University is committed to equity and diversity within its community and values academic rigour and excellence. We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities.

At McGill, research that reflects diverse intellectual traditions, methodologies, and modes of dissemination and translation is valued and encouraged. Candidates are invited to demonstrate their research impact both within and across academic disciplines and in other sectors, such as government, communities, or industry.

McGill further recognizes and fairly considers the impact of leaves (e.g., family care or health-related) that may contribute to career interruptions or slowdowns. Candidates are encouraged to signal any leave that affected productivity, or that may have had an effect on their career path. This information will be considered to ensure the equitable assessment of the candidate s record.

McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated equity groups to self-identify. It further seeks to ensure the equitable treatment and full inclusion of persons with disabilities by striving for the implementation of universal design principles transversally, across all facets of the University community, and through accommodation policies and procedures . Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, Catherine Roy accessibilityrequest.hr@mcgill.ca .


La Facult des arts de l Universit McGill invite les candidatures pour un poste temps plein de professeur adjoint menant la permanence, destin soutenir le d veloppement d un programme de recherche transformationnel contribuant au rayonnement et au leadership international du Canada dans le domaine prioritaire strat gique suivant :

R silience d mocratique et r silience des communaut s

La personne candidate doit disposer d un programme de recherche ind pendant d montrant un lien clair et strat gique avec ce domaine prioritaire. Le programme pr voit une contribution de 100 000 $ par ann e pendant six ans l Universit McGill afin de soutenir les co ts salariaux associ s la nomination de la personne retenue ainsi que les d penses directes de recherche. Une prolongation pouvant aller jusqu six ann es suppl mentaires pourrait tre accord e.

La personne retenue devra entrer en fonction dans un poste temps plein de professeur adjoint menant la permanence au D partement d histoire de l art et d tudes en communication , au plus tard le 9 juin 2027.

Responsabilit s

La personne recrut e dans le cadre des chaires de recherche Impact+ Canada devra ** laborer et mener un programme de recherche en lien avec le domaine prioritaire de la r silience d mocratique et communautaire**. Elle devra galement enseigner aux niveaux du premier cycle et des cycles sup rieurs, concevoir et d velopper des cours correspondant ses domaines de sp cialisation, superviser, encadrer et accompagner des tudiants et tudiantes aux cycles sup rieurs au sein du D partement d histoire de l art et d tudes en communication, et contribuer activement la vie intellectuelle et universitaire de McGill.

La r silience d mocratique et communautaire renvoie la capacit des institutions politiques et des communaut s r sister diff rentes formes de pression et y r pondre, notamment la mont e de l autoritarisme et du militarisme, l accroissement de la pr carit conomique, l rosion de la confiance envers les m dias d information, les injustices environnementales, les pr jug s et les violences fond s notamment sur le genre, le capacitisme et le racisme, ainsi que la d gradation des conditions favorisant la diversit , l galit et la libert . Les technologies mergentes de communication et les nouveaux m dias notamment les plateformes de m dias sociaux, la multiplication des syst mes de surveillance, les cryptomonnaies, les march s pr dictifs, la prise de d cision algorithmique et le d veloppement rapide de l intelligence artificielle jouent un r le dans ces transformations et ces tensions. La personne retenue dans le cadre de Canada Impact+ devra d velopper des programmes de recherche et d enseignement critiques portant sur les dimensions sociales, culturelles, politiques, conomiques, infrastructurelles et environnementales des m dias mergents, dans des contextes r gionaux, nationaux et internationaux. Les candidatures seront particuli rement consid r es en fonction du potentiel de la personne contribuer l laboration de politiques publiques, la r glementation et la gouvernance des m dias dans l int r t public, au d veloppement de cultures artistiques et cr atives dynamiques, et/ou la participation communautaire et politique autour des technologies m diatiques mergentes. Nous recherchons des personnes dont les recherches accordent une place centrale aux priorit s, aux exp riences et aux savoirs de personnes, de communaut s et de r gions historiquement et structurellement d favoris es ou marginalis es. Les candidates et candidats doivent galement tre engag s envers un milieu universitaire inclusif et envers l accompagnement d un corps tudiant diversifi .

Qualifications et exigences

  • Pour tre admissibles, les candidates et candidats doivent avoir t ** tablis l tranger, y travailler et y r sider le 9 juin 2026**.
  • Les candidates et candidats doivent se situer dans les cinq ann es suivant le d but de leur premi re nomination li e la recherche, apr s d duction de la dur e de toute interruption admissible de carri re en recherche.
  • Les personnes r cemment dipl m es ainsi que les stagiaires postdoctoraux peuvent galement tre admissibles.
  • Une nomination li e la recherche est une nomination dans le cadre de laquelle la personne dispose de l autonomie n cessaire pour mener des recherches de fa on ind pendante.
  • Les cong s admissibles notamment les cong s de maternit , parentaux, m dicaux et de deuil sont comptabilis s deux fois leur dur e r elle. La nature et la dur e de tout cong admissible doivent tre clairement indiqu es dans la lettre de pr sentation. Les cong s professionnels, notamment les cong s de formation, sabbatiques ou administratifs, ne sont pas pris en compte.
  • L Universit McGill exige un doctorat (Ph. D.) pour une nomination un poste menant la permanence. Toutefois, le doctorat ne constitue pas une exigence du programme des chaires de recherche Impact+ Canada Canada lui-m me.
  • Les candidates et candidats sont invit s consulter les crit res d admissibilit et de s lection du programme Impact+ avant de pr senter leur candidature.
  • Les Canadiennes et Canadiens vivant l tranger qui souhaitent s tablir au Canada sont encourag s pr senter leur candidature.

Processus de candidature

  • Les candidatures doivent tre soumises par l interm diaire de Workday, le syst me de gestion des ressources humaines de l Universit McGill, en utilisant le lien fourni ci-dessous.
  • Lors de la cr ation d un compte Workday, veuillez utiliser une adresse courriel personnelle.
  • Pour conna tre les tapes suivre, veuillez consulter le guide How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates).

Documents exig s

Le dossier de candidature doit inclure les documents suivants, regroup s en un seul fichier PDF d une taille maximale de 5 Mo :

Conditions du poste

  • Type de poste : Poste menant la permanence
  • Rang : Professeur adjoint
  • Salaire : Selon les qualifications et l exp rience

P riode d affichage

  • Date d affichage : Mercredi 16 septembre 2026
  • Date limite de candidature : 30 jours apr s la date d affichage

Les demandes d information de la part de candidates et candidats potentiels sont les bienvenues et seront trait es en toute confidentialit . Les personnes int ress es peuvent communiquer avec Darin Barney, Professeur et directeur, D partement d histoire de l art et d tudes en communication, Universit McGill ( darin.barney@mcgill.ca ).

Engagement envers l quit , la diversit et l inclusion

Pour travailler l Universit McGill, vous devez tre autoris travailler au Canada et tre dispos travailler au Qu bec, sur le campus o le poste est situ . L Universit McGill offre un soutien en mati re d immigration et de relocalisation aux personnes retenues.

L Universit McGill est une universit de langue anglaise. La majorit des activit s d enseignement et de recherche s y d roulent en anglais; les personnes candidates doivent donc tre en mesure de communiquer efficacement en anglais, tant l oral qu l crit.

L Universit McGill est r solument engag e en faveur de l quit et de la diversit au sein de sa communaut et accorde une grande importance la rigueur et l excellence universitaires.

Nous encourageons notamment les candidatures de personnes racis es et de minorit s visibles, de femmes, de personnes autochtones, de personnes en situation de handicap, de membres de minorit s ethniques et de personnes appartenant des minorit s en mati re d orientation sexuelle ou d identit de genre. Toutes les personnes qualifi es poss dant les comp tences et les connaissances n cessaires pour contribuer de mani re constructive des communaut s diversifi es sont galement invit es postuler.

McGill valorise et encourage les recherches qui s appuient sur une diversit de traditions intellectuelles, de m thodologies et de modes de diffusion et de mobilisation des connaissances. Les candidates et candidats sont invit s mettre en vidence les retomb es de leurs travaux, tant l int rieur de leur discipline et entre diff rentes disciplines qu aupr s d autres secteurs, notamment les gouvernements, les communaut s et l industrie.

McGill reconna t galement l incidence que peuvent avoir certains cong s notamment pour des raisons familiales ou de sant sur la progression d une carri re universitaire. Les candidates et candidats sont encourag s signaler tout cong ayant pu entra ner une diminution de leur productivit ou avoir une incidence sur leur parcours professionnel. Ces renseignements seront pris en compte afin de favoriser une valuation quitable du dossier.

L Universit McGill applique un programme d quit en mati re d emploi et encourage les membres des groupes d sign s s auto-identifier. Elle s efforce galement de garantir le traitement quitable et la pleine inclusion des personnes en situation de handicap, notamment par l application transversale des principes de conception universelle l ensemble de la vie universitaire ainsi que par ses politiques et proc dures d accommodement.

Les personnes en situation de handicap qui pr voient avoir besoin de mesures d adaptation quelque tape que ce soit du processus de candidature peuvent communiquer en toute confidentialit avec Catherine Roy accessibilityrequest.hr@mcgill.ca .

McGill University is committed to equity and diversity within its community and values academic rigour and excellence. We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities.

At McGill, research that reflects diverse intellectual traditions, methodologies, and modes of dissemination and translation is valued and encouraged. Candidates are invited to demonstrate their research impact both within and across academic disciplines and in other sectors, such as government, communities, or industry.

McGill further recognizes and fairly considers the impact of leaves (e.g., family care or health-related) that may contribute to career interruptions or slowdowns. Candidates are encouraged to signal any leave that affected productivity, or that may have had an effect on their career path. This information will be considered to ensure the equitable assessment of the candidate s record.

McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated equity groups to self-identify. It further seeks to ensure the equitable treatment and full inclusion of persons with disabilities by striving for the implementation of universal design principles transversally, across all facets of the University community, and through accommodation policies and procedures . Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accessibilityrequest.hr@mcgill.ca .

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.