Adjunct Faculty - Design Historian

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The Department of Digital Art and Design at NYIT seeks an Adjunct faculty member to teach courses in Design History 1 and/or Design History 2, which together provide a comprehensive foundation in the evolution of visual communication from ancient times through contemporary design movements.

These courses serve students across multiple design disciplines—including Graphic Design, UX/UI, Animation, and Game Design—and emphasize the relationship between design, aesthetics, culture, and technology. Through lectures, critiques, and applied assignments, students connect historical ideas to current design practice and emerging platforms.

We are seeking faculty with a strong background in design history, cultural theory, or visual communication, who can critically contextualize design within historical, aesthetic, and technological frameworks. Ideal candidates are not traditional art historians but working professionals, educators, or researchers who understand how design history informs contemporary practice, including digital, interactive, and AI-enhanced media.

Master’s degree or higher in Design History, Visual Communication, Graphic Design, Art History (with a design focus), or a related field.

Deep familiarity with global design movements from prehistory through the present, including Bauhaus, Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Digital Revolution
Ability to teach design history as a design-centric discipline, distinct from traditional art history.
Strong understanding of how historical design principles connect to contemporary applications across UX/UI, product design, graphic design, digital arts, animation, game design, and emerging technologies.

Familiarity with the ways design history intersects with technological change, user experience, and cultural shifts is essential.
Experience in teaching or presenting topics such as typography, cultural design aesthetics, and visual systems in both print and digital contexts.
Experience with inclusive pedagogy and critical design histories is highly valued.
Prior teaching, research, curation, or publication experience required.

Please submit a cover letter, CV, and (if available) a sample syllabus or evidence of design-history-related scholarship or teaching

New York Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer – All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

In compliance with local legislation as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, the annual base salary range for this position is listed. New York Tech considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate experience/expertise, education/training, key skills, geographic location, internal peer equity as well as market, organizational considerations and/or applicable collective bargaining agreement when extending an offer. Adjunct Faculty offered hourly rate is contingent on applicable rank.