The Department of Human Centered Design (HCD) in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University invites applications for a 12-month Teaching Professor in Apparel Design, who will also serve as Apparel Design Studio Coordinator and provide faculty leadership for the Cornell Fashion Collective.
This is a teaching-focused faculty position. Seventy-five percent of the appointment is devoted to undergraduate teaching, normally six courses annually, including summer. The remaining 25% is devoted to leading and producing the annual Cornell Fashion Collective student runway show, which includes student advising, mentoring, and coordinating show-related activities, and serving as Apparel Design Studio Coordinator, leading and coordinating the apparel design studios and related instructional resources.
Advising, mentoring, industry engagement, outreach, and departmental and College service are integral to the teaching faculty role. As part of this role, the faculty member will support the Fashion Scholarship Fund and foster professional connections that enhance students’ learning and career development.
We seek an educator and practicing apparel designer with a sustained commitment to undergraduate education and hands-on learning. The successful candidate will connect creative design with technical execution and contemporary professional practice while contributing to HCD’s transdisciplinary community.
The Department of Human Centered Design brings together creative studio practice, fiber and materials science, environmental design, and fashion business. Formed through the integration of Design + Environmental Analysis and Fiber Science & Apparel Design, HCD takes a transdisciplinary approach to understanding and shaping the relationship between people, materials, technologies, products, and environments.
Within HCD, apparel design provides a distinctive setting for integrating creative practice, technical expertise, material exploration, digital technologies, and human-centered approaches to design. We are looking for a colleague whose professional experience and teaching will strengthen this community and help students understand apparel as both a creative practice and a complex field of design, technology, and production.
HCD is part of Cornell's College of Human Ecology, a college dedicated to understanding the relationships among people, their environments, and the systems that shape everyday life. Cornell's founding principle of educating "any person…in any study" continues to inform its commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and public engagement.
Cornell offers a collegial and intellectually vibrant academic environment in Ithaca, in the heart of New York's Finger Lakes region. Apparel design students and faculty have access to substantial studio resources, including a TC2 Jacquard loom, digital textile printing, Optitex digitizing, and industrial sewing and finishing equipment.
The position offers the stability and benefits of a university career while maintaining close connections to professional apparel practice. Cornell also supports dual-career couples through its Dual Career program and membership in the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium.
Teach a range of undergraduate courses across the apparel design curriculum, according to program needs and the candidate's expertise. Courses may include apparel design, patternmaking, draping, garment construction, prototyping, product development, and design computing.
The successful candidate will create inclusive, hands-on learning experiences that connect creative concepts with materials, technical skills, and professional practice. Course development and curricular improvement are expected as appropriate.
Serve as a key connection between apparel design education and professional practice by bringing current industry practices, technologies, materials, and production methods into the curriculum and maintaining relationships with designers, brands, manufacturers, and other industry partners.
The faculty member will work with College of Human Ecology career-services and development colleagues to support internships, mentorships, career opportunities, and other professional connections for students.
The faculty member will also serve as faculty advisor to the Cornell Fashion Collective, producer of the annual student runway show, support students participating in the Fashion Scholarship Fund, and contribute to departmental and College service. Service is an integral component of the teaching faculty role.
Candidates need not have experience with every technology used in the department.
This is a 12-month Teaching Professor appointment within Cornell's teaching faculty system. Appointment may be at the assistant, associate, or full Teaching Professor rank, commensurate with prior full-time teaching experience and qualifications. Teaching faculty appointments are generally renewable on three- or five-year terms depending on rank, with advancement based on established criteria.
This is a non-tenure track, teaching-centered position. Scholarship and independent creative practice are not expected components of the appointment.
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Start date: As early as July 2027
Priority deadline: January 4, 2027. Screening begins immediately thereafter. Applications accepted on a rolling basis until filled.
Contact: hcd-chair@cornell.edu
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Sheri Spencer-Chrisjohn
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