The Department of Public Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to fill a tenure-track assistant professor of public policy, effective July 1, 2018.

We seek a social scientist (with a preference for public policy, sociology, demography, psychology or anthropology) with policy-relevant research and teaching interests in poverty, inequality, stratification and/or immigration or migration with a focus on the Americas.

Interested candidates should provide a cover letter which describes the candidate’s research and teaching interests and articulates the candidate’s rationale for seeking a position in an interdisciplinary academic unit; a CV; four (4) letters of reference from tenured professors at the associate level or higher; and samples of written or published work.

All materials should be attached to the electronic application online at https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/127504. Letters of reference can be emailed to publicpolicy@unc.edu.

Review of applications will begin in mid-October and continue until the position is filled. For more on UNC Public Policy, see http://publicpolicy.unc.edu/.