Employment Opportunities
The Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, which administers over $15 million in research grants, offers a number of employment opportunities. We also make every effort to maintain a listing of non-CSDE demography related positions.
Full-Time Lecturer, Sociology, California State University, Chico
California State University, Chico College of Behavioral and Social Sciences,
Department of Sociology seeks full-time Lecturer. For the full posting, please
go here.
Three Available Positions at the Migration Policy Center – Italy
The Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute is
seeking to appoint the three following academic staff: Research Fellow in Migration Studies, Statistician, and Policy Analyst.
For the full listings, please go here.
Senior Adviser – International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is looking for a
full-time senior adviser to lead projects on population, development and
women's empowerment.The
ideal candidate will have subject-matter expertise and professional experience
in population and reproductive health issues, and in women's empowerment,
especially on issues such as adolescents and transitions to adulthood, child
marriage, sex selection, fertility trends, maternal health, and reproductive
behavior. The position is based in ICRW's headquarters in Washington, DC.
For the full listing, please go here.
Two Researcher Positions at INED
The Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques will be offering two researcher
positions (category 2, CR2) in 2012. The candidate's specialty shall concern
one of the following disciplines or topics (no order of priority):
Demography and associated disciplines
Demographic analysis, migration, Mediterranean region
Gender, violence, sexuality, health
Sociodemographic analysis of settlement and mobility
Children's living conditions
Categorization of otherness and construction of identity
For the full job descriptions please go here.
The INED website is here.
Assistant Professor Dept. of Geography and Earth Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Geography and
Earth Sciences is recruiting a tenure-track, assistant professor specializing
in environmental remote sensing for appointment in July 2012. Required
qualifications: 1) a doctoral degree in a relevant field at the time of
appointment; 2) ability to develop and maintain an externally funded research
program on remote sensing of the natural and/or built environment; 3) ability
to teach remote sensing courses at the graduate and undergraduate level to
diverse student populations; 4) ability to contribute to the Department’s
interdisciplinary mission. Candidates who strengthen bridges across the
geospatial, natural, and social sciences curricula and research collaborations
are especially encouraged to apply.
A full description of the position and application details can be found here. For
more information, contact Dr. Ross Meentemeyer at rkmeente@uncc.edu.
Tenure-Track Position Department of Sociology, DePaul University, Illinois
The Department of Sociology at DePaul University invites applications for a
tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level beginning September
2012. They are looking for candidates in the area of urban sociology, preferably
with secondary areas of specialization in race & ethnicity, inequality,
immigration, and/or demography. The candidate should also be prepared to teach
core courses, including theory, methods and/or statistics, as well as
introductory sociology. For the full posting, please go here.
full time graduate research assistant
Posted on 9/12/2011:
I am looking for a full time graduate research assistant to work on a
NSF funded project on human-computer interactions and economics. The
tasks will include literature search and summary, help with running the
project experiments, data management, statistical / econometrical
analyses, and drafting of papers.
For more information on the project
and some of the planned work, please see our talk at Google, available
on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8hv9piPizY), or my website
(search for HCI or look for the CHI proceedings paper).
The ideal candidate would have an interest in labor economics and/or IO,
but the main requirement is quantitative skills and familiarity with
Stata or other statistical software. Programming experience is
preferred, but not require; the Computer Science graduate students on
the project will be responsible for the main programming. The hope is
that the successful candidate will be able to co-author and/or run
experiments for their own research.
The position is for 20 hours a week and includes full tuition. The
project is funded for three years. The initial appointment will be for
nine months with the possibility of extension and the appointment will
start as soon as possible. The hope is that I will make a selection at
the end of next week. The research assistant may be require to work at
Seattle University for at least part of the time.
For further information or to submit an application, please contact me
at cportner@seattleu.edu or at 206-651-4151.
Claus C Portner
Fall 2011