Assistant Professor (Sociolinguistics)

Assistant Professor (Sociolinguistics) Hiring Unit: Department of Linguistics, College of Arts, Languages & Letters

Full-time, tenure track position in Linguistics, with specialization in sociolinguistics, to begin Fall 2027, pending position clearance and availability of funds. We seek a colleague whose research centers on language variation and change in language contact situations. The successful candidate will examine linguistic and social factors that affect language maintenance, shift, or revitalization, for situations involving contact of spoken and/or signed languages, which could include pidgins, creoles, home or village sign languages, language varieties, or low-resource languages. Desired research foci include one or more of the following: the sociolinguistics of revitalization; typological perspectives on language contact; the sociolinguistics of multimodal contact; and computational sociolinguistics, including the application of social network modeling or the investigation of the sociolinguistic impacts of language technology and new media. The successful candidate will also contribute to the department's strong commitment to language sustainability in the Pacific, Asia, and beyond; the study of language through data-driven methods, including experimental, documentary, and computational approaches; and community engagement in language work. Researchers with expertise in the languages of Oceania are especially encouraged to apply. The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa offers BA, MA and PhD degree programs in Linguistics. For more information, see: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/linguistics/ .Our campus welcomes all students but given our responsibilities to the community in which we operate, as part of our strategic mission, we strive to become a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning, a place that is committed to integrating Native Hawaiian language, culture and/or values into its academic and campus environment.