Job description

Waterville, ME

The Department of Psychology at Colby College is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor in cognitive psychology to begin in Fall 2025. The specific area of research interest is open. We are interested in candidates who are committed to reproducible science and who have research interests that would be compatible with and complementary to the current research programs in the department. Teaching responsibilities may include introductory and advanced courses in the candidate’s area of training, participation in a team-taught introduction to psychology course, assisting with the department’s methodology and statistics offerings, and supervision of student independent research.

For more information about the department, please see our website at https://www.colby.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/psychology/.

Qualifications:

We believe the best way to learn the science of psychology is by engaging our faculty and students in a collaborative search for new knowledge about human cognition, emotion, and behavior. To this end, we have a unique curriculum that engages students in research at all levels. The successful candidate will be expected to teach with passion, to be engaged in an active and sustained program of research that contributes to the global effort to advance psychological knowledge, to involve Colby’s exceptional undergraduates in that research, and become an active and engaged member of our academic community. Colby is a highly selective liberal arts college recognized for excellence in undergraduate education and close student-faculty interaction. We are especially interested in candidates who, through their research, teaching, and/or service, will promote diversity, inclusion, and equity at Colby.

The Ph.D. in Psychology or a closely related field should be completed September 1, 2025.

Colby is a private, coeducational liberal arts college that admits students and makes employment decisions on the basis of the individual’s qualifications to contribute to Colby’s educational objectives and institutional needs. Colby College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, or veteran’s status in employment or in our educational programs. Colby is an Equal Opportunity employer, committed to excellence through diversity, and encourages applications from qualified persons of color, women, persons with disabilities, military veterans and members of other under-represented groups. Colby complies with Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in an institution’s education programs and activities. Questions regarding Title IX may be referred to Colby’s Title IX coordinator or to the federal Office of Civil Rights.

For more information about the College, please visit our website: www.colby.edu.

How to apply

Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of teaching philosophy and research interests that demonstrate a commitment to equitable and inclusive teaching, a summary of teaching evaluations, copies of publications, in-press manuscripts and preprints, and three confidential letters. Review of applications will begin February 3, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled. Questions about this search should be directed to Professor Martha Arterberry: [email protected].