Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

The School of Social Sciences at Utah State University (USU) invites applications for a tenure-track research position in Criminal Justice open at the rank of assistant professor. We seek candidates with strong research and teaching skills that complement our undergraduate curriculum and current faculty expertise. The selected candidate will contribute to our program through excellent undergraduate instruction and mentoring, to our college by assisting in proposing and establishing the interdisciplinary Institute for Social Science and Policy Research (ISSPR), and to our land-grant mission by collaborating with law enforcement agencies to provide summative and process evaluation support. Areas of research specialization should include quantitative analysis and evaluation research.

This is a nine-month appointment with USU’s Criminal Justice program beginning August 2027 and is based at the main USU campus in Logan, Utah. The position has a role assignment 50% research, 40% teaching, and 10% service. Instruction is delivered by a variety of methods (e.g., face-to-face, interactive video broadcast, and online) to students at the Logan campus, several regional campuses, and online.

The successful candidate will be expected to: (1) contribute to scholarship at a level consistent with an R1 institution; (2) contribute to the creation of the proposed cross-disciplinary Institute for Social Science and Policy Research (ISSPR) in the USU College of Arts & Sciences; (3) provide assessment for law enforcement agencies in the state of Utah; (4) teach general and required undergraduate courses; (5) advise undergraduate and graduate students; and (6) provide service to the program, department, university, and profession.

Old Main Room 405

1475 Old Main Hill, Logan UT 84322

titleix@usu.edu

(435) 797-1266

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U.S. Department of Education

Denver Regional Office

303-844-5695| OCR.Denver@ed.gov

U.S. Department of Education

Office of Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

800-421-3481 |  OCR@ed.gov

*updated 08/2026