Faculty Careers
Our accomplished faculty are academics and practitioners—industry leaders who live what they teach and inspire students to Shape What’s Next.
Columbia's art-splashed urban campus is located in the heart of Chicago, a vibrant city that can be your classroom, your canvas, and your home. At Columbia, we value your expertise in theory and practice. Work alongside award-winning scholars, artists and entrepreneurs and empower students to turn their ideas into creative practice.
We are currently looking for qualified candidates to join our faculty.
Why Columbia?
"Columbia has supported my scholarly work, in particular the publication of “Five Hundred African Voices.” The book identified nearly five hundred published accounts by slave ship survivors. These voices...provide a wealth of information about life and the loss of freedom in Africa, the Middle Passage, and slavery and freedom in the Americas."
- Robert Hanserd, Associate Professor of Humanities, History and Social Sciences
"I love the energy and inspiration I receive interacting with the students…Deep inside their questions, you hear the indistinguishable excitement to learn the craft, to tell their stories, and manifest ideas onto the screen. They are hopeful and creative; they carry a strong work ethic, and stand up for what they believe in."
- Carolina Posse, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Cinema and Television Arts
"I initially worried my own creative work would suffer because of teaching full-time. The opposite happened - with the support of the Columbia community I now write more and better music than ever before. Running a graduate program at Columbia has been both gratifying as a teacher and bountiful as a working artist."
- Kubilay Uner, Associate Professor, Music and Director, MFA Music Composition for the Screen
About Columbia College Chicago
Columbia's lively campus is in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood with nearly 4,300 students, over 500 faculty (both full and part-time), and nearly 500 staff. Columbia offers 40 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, and has 8 academic schools: School of Audio and Music, School of Business Entrepreneurship, School of Communication and Culture, School of Design, School of Fashion, School of Film and Television, School of Theatre and Dance, and School of Visual Arts. In 2019, Columbia opened its first-ever Student Center, a five-story, 114,000 square-foot space—a campus hub for students, faculty, and staff to gather, collaborate, learn, and celebrate.
Columbia College Chicago actively promotes access to an expansive array of social and cultural theories, practices and perspectives that are vitally important to the successful delivery of a contemporary creative curriculum and the college’s mission to educate students who will author the culture of their times. These principles are essential to the educational experiences of our students, staff, and faculty.
We seek individuals with a demonstrated ability to work with students from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds, and whose creative, scholarly and/or professional work contributes to a rich educational experience consistent with our mission. For more information, please visit here.
The Manifest Urban Arts Festival is Columbia's signature event where graduating Columbia students showcase their creative work. Those who attend experience an array of engaging, thought-provoking, and interactive art, music, and visuals that only Columbia students can create.
Check out the Manifest 2023 video to get a feel for our talented, vibrant community.
