Careers at Annenberg
The Annenberg School for Communication is a close-knit community of faculty, students, and staff. A selection of our open jobs are listed below. Read more about the Annenberg School and please visit the University of Pennsylvania's careers page for a comprehensive listing of open jobs at Annenberg and at Penn.
Current Opportunities
The Politics, Identities, and Communication Lab (PICL) at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication is hiring a postdoctoral researcher specializing in politics, social identity, and computational methods. The successful candidate for this position will work under the supervision and mentorship of Dr. Deen Freelon, PICL’s director. The lab was founded in 2024 and focuses on the computational and quantitative study of communication and social identities including race, gender, political ideology, religion, sexual/cultural/national identity, and others. Our research incorporates data from a wide range of digital sources, including social media, video-sharing platforms, podcasts, music streaming, and LLMs. Applicants with strong interests in these and related issues are encouraged to apply, as are those with experience analyzing under-studied media types including audio, images, and video.