Job Details

The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a lecturer in data science, with a focus on quantitative methods and computational approaches in linguistics, with a starting date in January 2026. The successful candidate will teach a range of undergraduate, and occasionally graduate, courses, including but not limited to statistical methods in linguistics, digital humanities, data science for linguistics, computational linguistics, and academic writing in the humanities and social sciences.

The lecturer will play a key role in expanding the department's offerings in data-driven and interdisciplinary approaches to language, as well as foundational and introductory courses in linguistics.