Position Information

**Proposed Faculty Rank** Tenure-Track

**Department** 00136 - Family and Consumer Studies

**City** Salt Lake City, UT

**Track** Tenure Track

**New Position to Begin** 07/01/2026

**Details**
The Department of Family and Consumer Studies ( FCS ) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. The successful candidate will enhance the department’s research and curricular capacity in Financial Planning & Counseling as well as Family Economics. The department is especially interested in scholars whose research focuses on family economic behavior and well-being, preferably with connections to family health and public policy. Example areas include: (1) the effects of public policies and economic shocks on household economic behaviors; (2) how financial literacy and planning impact family well-being; (3) the role of financial education and technology in investment decisions and ...