Jobs at the UMD College of Information Studies

Seeking information studies practitioners to join our faculty team, bringing their hands-on industry experience into our classrooms.

Seeking candidates whose scholarship and teaching interests are centered and focused on one or more of the following areas: Data visualization; Visual analytics; Ubiquitous, immersive, and situated analytics; and Human-computer interaction for visual data representations.

Seeking a lecturer who will both teach and develop new curricula in the areas of cybersecurity and data science. The successful candidate will teach three courses per semester (fall and spring) while also working on development of new courses, programs, and curricula in this area.

Seeking candidates whose scholarship and teaching interests address important social science problems in the fields of American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Politics, and Political Methodology that intersect with Information Science.

The USDA’s National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the UMD INFO college’s Center for Archival Futures (CAFe) announce a Postdoctoral Fellowship to support research in the domains of scientific knowledge organization and public access policy.

Enjoy two presentations on innovation and entrepreneurship in social data science, followed by a Q&A. Brought to you by the UMD SoDa Center.

Presentation 1: Research opportunities in the challenging survival world of social media fame and fortune

Presented by Dr. Charles DiSogra, Survey Research Methodologist. Dr. DiSogra has had senior positions at Meta and Google.  At Meta he was director of user experience research for Facebook app and more recently director of research with Meta’s Demography and Survey Sciences group.  Prior to Meta, he built the survey and statistics team for Google’s customer experience lab that tracks global advertiser satisfaction for the company. He was also the founding director of the California Health Interview Survey at UCLA and was Chief Statistician and Senior Vice President at both Abt SRBI and Knowledge Networks/GfK.

Presentation 2: Promoting Open Government Data with Economics and Entrepreneurship

Presented by Dr. Ginger Zhe Jin, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland and Co-Founder, Hazel Analytics. Dr. Jin is also the ADVANCE Professor of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University. She served as the Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics from Jan 2016 to Jul 2017. Most of Dr. Jin’s research focuses on information asymmetry among economic agents and how to provide information to overcome the information problem. The applications she has studied include retail food safety, health insurance, prescription drugs, and more.

More about the UMD SoDa Center

The powerful information available in large social science data sets is critical to understanding and addressing many of our nation and world’s most pressing challenges: from Covid-19 to racial, social and economic injustice; and from climate change to deep and damaging political and cultural divides. To help address these challenges, the University of Maryland has launched a new Social Data Science Center (SoDa) designed to advance research, education, and applications of social data measurement and analysis. This center leverages UMD’s strengths in survey methods, measurement, information management, visualization, and analytics. Facebook is providing support for the center’s research and education programs over the next three years.

This position will lead a highly talented team of Business Managers who provide administrative support to our faculty in the areas of pre- and post- award management, financial analysis, and navigation of the various administrative functions around campus. A component of this position will be to work with others in the College to craft policies and procedures.

This position is responsible for the management of faculty financial accounts, processes and reporting—including pre- and post-award activities and both sponsored and non sponsored accounts—ensuring that resources are well managed, accurately reported, comply with federal and state regulations.

The Digital Marketing Specialist is responsible for posting social media content to the college’s various social media channels; monitoring messages, questions, and comments on these channels; and gathering/reporting on basic social metrics. This position is also responsible for drafting and editing website content, and working with other teams and stakeholders to coordinate larger website content projects.