Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position

The College of Liberal Arts invites applications for a tenure-track, 9-month Assistant Professor positions in Autism Studies. Preferred start date is August 2025. This is a joint appointment across Family Science and Psychology departments in the College of Liberal Arts, in support of the Autism Studies Ph.D. program at Towson University. We seek candidates who will support the university’s ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through their research, teaching, mentoring and/or lived experience.

Candidates must hold a doctorate in Family Science, Psychology, or related field. Must have a PhD at the time of appointment.

The successful applicant will primarily teach graduate courses related to autism, human development, and human services including classes in the applicant’s area of expertise. The successful candidate must have the ability to work with diverse populations and to create an inclusive learning environment that is attuned to the educational needs of all students. Evidence of effective teaching experience in a college or university setting with students from diverse backgrounds is highly desirable. The successful applicant is expected to demonstrate research competency as well as evidence that they will continue to grow their research agenda related to autism studies, leading to publication in peer-reviewed journals and the potential to secure external funding.

The ability to teach and mentor students interested in autism and neurodiversity is required. The successful applicant will contribute to student advising and service to department, program, and university committees. Applicants will need to demonstrate the potential for strong research, excellent teaching, and service aligned with the college’s expected outcomes of impact, innovation, and engagement towards R2 status and the university’s new strategic plan (https://www.towson.edu/about/mission/strategicplan.html).

The Family Science Department (https://www.towson.edu/cla/departments/family-science) has an undergraduate major in Family and Human Services with and optional track in Child Life as well as graduate programs in Child Life, Jewish Studies, Education and Communal Leadership, Holocaust Education and Family Professional Collaboration. The Psychology Department   (https://www.towson.edu/psychology) has over 1,400 undergraduate psychology majors and 300 graduate students in five master’s degree programs, including clinical psychology, counseling psychology, experimental psychology, human resource development, and school psychology. Towson University prioritizes diversity and inclusion. More information can be found here: https://www.towson.edu/about/diversity.html. Family Science and Psychology departments support increasing diversity to enhance our programs. We aim to increase diversity in multiple forms including but not limited to identity, culture, background, ability, and perspective.

Towson University (www.towson.edu, https://www.towson.edu/about/mission/) was founded in 1866, is recognized by U.S. News and World Report as a Top 100 National University, is Baltimore’s largest university, and is the largest public, comprehensive institution in the University of Maryland System. TU enrolls over 17,000 undergraduates and 3,000 graduate students across six academic colleges, has over 911 full-time faculty, and offers more than 66 bachelor’s, 47 master’s, 36 graduate certificates, and 6 doctoral programs. Our centrally located campus sits on 330 rolling green acres and is 10 miles north of Baltimore, 45 miles north of Washington, D.C., and 95 miles south of Philadelphia.

Review of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. Please send a letter of application, a statement describing experience and interests in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion through teaching, mentoring, research, and/or community partnerships, a statement about your teaching experience and approach, a statement about your research interests, a curriculum vitae, and the contact information (name, address, email, phone number) for at least three professional references. If selected for the short list, three letters of reference must be submitted directly to the search chair at the email link below.

For questions please contact:

Family Science Department

Click here to apply. Please note that the search number for which you are applying is CLA-3830.

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Salary range is $70.000 – $73,500 commensurate with experience.

Benefits: TU offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes excellent health, life and retirement plans; and tuition remission. To learn more about our benefits, click here for regular faculty/regular lecturer or here for contingent lecturer. TU also offers a variety of great perks and discounts, which can be found here.

A Criminal Background Investigation is required for the hired candidate and the results may impact employment.

The safety of our students, faculty, staff, and neighbors has been our top priority and the focus of every one of our decisions since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the University System of Maryland (USM) has strongly encouraged full COVID vaccination and up-to-date booster shots (when eligible) for all faculty, staff, and students at all schools in the USM as both a reasonable and necessary means of protecting our health and safety.

Towson University is an equal opportunity employer and has a strong institutional commitment to diversity, as detailed in “A More Inclusive TU: Advancing Equity and Diversity (2020 – 25).” TU is a national leader in inclusive excellence, the only institution in Maryland with zero achievement gap, and 68% growth in minority enrollment over the past 5 years. We encourage applications from a variety of (dis)abilities, cultural, ethnic, race, sex, gender identity/expressions, national origins, ages, veteran status, color, religious, socio-economic, sexual orientations and belief backgrounds.