Tenure-Track Faculty Positions (Assistant / Associate Professor, Sport Management)

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How to Apply

For full consideration, interested candidates should submit the following materials electronically through Interfolio:

The below materials should be consolidated into 1 (one) PDF document before uploading to Interfolio.  

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae
• Research statement (up to 2 pages)
• Teaching statement (1 page)
• Diversity statement (1 page), outlining how your research, teaching, service and/or outreach activities contribute to enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion.  Please refer to this site for additional resources. 
• Up to three examples of research papers.
• Full names and email addresses for three references. 

Review of applications will begin November 1, 2021 and continue until the position is filled. Nominations, applications, and expressions of interest will be held in confidence, and references will be contacted only with the candidate’s permission.

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For questions about the position, please contact the Search Committee Chairs:

• (Marketing and Data Analytics position) Dae Hee Kwak, kwakd@umich.edu
• (Global Venues position) Mark Rosentraub, msrosen@umich.edu

Job Summary

The School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce searches for eight new tenure-track faculty members as part of a strategic hiring initiative targeting several emerging and multidisciplinary themes. As part of this initiative, we are searching for two faculty members to join our Sport Management program.

• The Marketing and Data Analytics focused role seeks individuals with an interest in marketing and/or the impacts of legalized gaming or esports on sport and society, and who are committed to demonstrating their intellectual leadership driving their published research in the broad area of marketing analytics, including emerging areas of legalized gaming and esports.
• The Sports Venues focused role seeks individuals interested in large-scale sports venues and their impacts on urban space and society, with particular focus on research that explores any or all of venue finance, management, marketing, operations, design, real estate development, and/or the economic, social, spatial, and health impacts of sport venues on neighborhoods, cities, and regions.

The successful candidates will have opportunities to join with colleagues in the Sport Management program and across campus advancing research that emphasizes the application of data analytics to the marketing of sport in the future, or complement and expand the activities of an established cluster of faculty working on topics related to large-scale sports venues and major sporting events. The School of Kinesiology is one of several campus partners making up an innovative and multidisciplinary curriculum focused on esports , which is set to launch in the 2022-23 academic year. In addition, a new massive open online course (MOOC) specialization in Sports Performance Analytics was recently launched by a group of faculty members from the Sport Management program and other U-M units. Successful candidates for Sport Venues position will have opportunities to collaborate on projects and initiatives, such as the joint Real Estate Development concentration administered by the Ross School of Business in partnership with the School of Kinesiology and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. In addition, university researchers will have access to high-performance computing and research storage services (including high-speed and archival storage) .

The School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan is the top Kinesiology program in the United States according to a recent review by the National Academy of Kinesiology.  The School is one of 19 independent academic units within the University of Michigan. The School is led by a Dean (Lori Ploutz-Snyder ), has 32 tenure-track faculty, 8 clinical-track faculty, 23 part and full-time lecturers, and approximately 1000 undergraduate and graduate students. This past winter, our school moved into a newly renovated, state-of-the-art academic and research building (School of Kinesiology Building ) which is located in the heart of the University of Michigan’s main campus. The $120,000,000 renovation project will expand the School of Kinesiology’s research, classroom, and office space to approximately 250,000 sq ft.  The School celebrates and is committed to the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion and believe that they enrich the learning environment and enhance the school’s innovation and overall productivity; review more detail about our diversity commitment here .  

As part of one of the highest ranked public universities in the nation and one of the world’s preeminent research institutions, we invite applications and nominations for two faculty positions at the level of Associate Professor or Assistant Professor. Candidates for these open faculty positions will be expected to maintain a robust, ongoing research program, teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and have research expertise appropriate for the effective mentoring of trainees at the undergraduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels. Successful candidates will be expected to maintain extramural funding for an active research program at the University of Michigan.

Required Qualifications*

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in one of the following fields:

• (Marketing and Data Analytics position) Sport Management, Business, Law, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related field. Applicants holding a doctorate degree from another discipline along with a strong record of research on marketing analytics in the sport context are also encouraged to apply.
• (Sports Venues position) Sport Management, Kinesiology, Economics, Public Policy and/or Administration, Urban Planning and/or Architecture, or a related field. Applicants holding a doctorate degree from another discipline along with a strong record of research on large-scale venues and their impacts are also encouraged to apply.

Assistant Professor candidates should demonstrate academic independence with respect to: 1) publishing high-quality, peer reviewed research, 2) mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, 3) teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in their area of expertise and 4) having independent research funding or show outstanding promise for future funding.   

At the Associate Professor rank, candidates will have also demonstrated a consistent and ongoing record of securing extramural research funding, as well as experience and skill in providing intellectual leadership that will advance the scholarly excellence of the Sport Management Program at the School of Kinesiology. 

Desired Qualifications*

Strong quantitative skills with extensive experience working with large datasets and data analytics are preferred for both positions, along with these unique qualifications:  

• (Marketing and Data Analytics position) ability to perform data analysis with state-of-the-art methods in statistics and/or econometrics; experience in machine learning and other advanced data science tools; keen interest in cross-disciplinary analytics research; willingness to work collaboratively within the academic unit and across campus; prior experience with engaged learning.
• (Sports Venues position) geographic information systems (GIS) or related spatial analysis software, including socio-economic and property data at the state and local government level; venue design and development including: architecture, engineering, planning and/or real estate development; contemporary venue trends including: security, sustainability, and technology; other meaningful experience in the large-scale sports venue and/or major sporting events industry.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The School of Kinesiology seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives and ways of knowing and learning. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.