CSDE Affiliates Karin Martin, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, and CSDE Trainee Charles C. Lanfear are recipients of 2020 University of Washington Awards of Excellence. Martin and Rowhani-Rahbar received the UW Distinguished Teaching Award and Lanfear received the UW Excellence in Teaching Award. The awards, which are the university’s highest awards for instruction, recognizes these individuals for their exceptional leadership within the UW Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, the UW School of Public Health, and Sociology Department, respectively. The Distinguished Teaching and Excellence in Teaching Awards also recognize recipients for achievements in mentoring, public service, and staff support. Congratulations, Karin Martin, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, and Charles Lanfear!
Differential Privacy and the 2020 Decennial Census: Implications for Social Scientists
This Friday, David Van Riper from the Minnesota Population Center will present on differential privacy, the 2020 Decennial Census, and subsequent implications for social scientists. A team of IPUMS research scientists, led by Van Riper, analyzed the implementation of differential privacy by the Census Bureau and the impact on the accuracy of summary data tables. This presentation will provide an overview of differential privacy, describe the Census Bureau’s proposed algorithm, discuss the policy decisions required for its implementation, analyze the differentially private 2010 decennial data released by the Bureau, and discuss steps the Bureau is taking to improve their implementation.
Amy Bailey Examines Military Downsizing and Mass Incarceration in New Study
In a new study titled “Institutional Castling: Military Enlistment and Mass Incarceration in the United States” published in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, CSDE Regional Affiliate Amy Bailey and Bryan Sykes examine a key consequence of military downsizing: increased incarceration rates. By analyzing data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bailey and Sykes show how institutional castling—the shifting prominence of competing institutions in the lives of specific demographic groups—has affected the underlying risk of military employment and penal confinement. Their results imply that the military has remarkable protective effects against the penal institution for men with low levels of education and for Black men, in particular.
As a means to conclude the study, Bailey and Sykes emphasize that “The castling of these two institutions in the lives of disadvantaged men requires hyperbolic doubt to reimagine how state power is exercised to shape (and reshape) the composition of the armed forces, the penal system, and the civilian labor market synchronistically.”
*New* COVID-19 Data Repository Now Available through ICPSR
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan has launched a new repository for COVID-19 Data that examines the social, behavioral, public health, and economic impact of the global pandemic. The COVID-19 Data Repository is a free, self-publishing option for any researcher or journalist who wants to share data related to COVID-19. The data will be available to any interested user for secondary data analysis. UW’s Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) manages the UW’s partnership with ICPSR through CSSCR’s data archive services.
*NEW* Emergency R01/R21 Awards Announced From NIAID
Two new RFAs were just announced from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. The links for the calls can be found here for R21 applications or R01 applications. Do let CSDE know if we can help you with any aspect of the preparation of your application (reviewing your narrative, budgeting, or scientific and technical consultations)!
Labor in the 21st Century: UW Bothell Colloquia Series
The experiences of working people fundamentally shape ideas, institutions, and movements. At this critical juncture in our history, this colloquium is designed to let us pause and take stock of labors’ experiences and where it appears to be heading.
April 9 – Futurizing the Washington State Labor Force
Eleni Papadakis, Director, Washington State Workforce Training & Randy Spaulding, Director, Washington Board of Education.
1:30 PM. Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/786559967
April 14 – Gig Labor and the Law.
Charlotte Garden, Professor of Law, Seattle University
1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771
April 21 – Forged Together: Labor and the Carceral State Education Project
Sabina Vaught, Professor, U of Oklahoma & Damien Sojourner, Professor UC Irvine
1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771
April 28 – Japanese Teacher Unions
Keith Nitta, Professor UW Bothell & Jordan Woljter, Law, Economics and Public Policy
1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771
May 12 – Social Movement Unionism from the Grassroots
Dan Berger, Professor, UW Bothell
1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771
May 19 – Organizing LGBT Women
Debbie Carlsen, Director LGBTQ Allyship, & Ching-in Chen, Professor UW Bothell
1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771
May 26 – Strategies for supporting Immigrant and survival sex workers
Emi Koyama, Coalition for Rights and Safety & Kari Lerum
1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771
June 2 – Undermining Academic Labor
Dan Jacoby, Professor, UWB
Tentative. 1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771
Postdoc Position in Computational Social Science
The Lazer Lab at Northeastern University is conducting a search for a postdoctoral fellow in computational social science. The core research duties of the fellow will be to conduct research around social media and misinformation, with particular foci around the two topics of politics and COVID-19.
Requirements for the position include: PhD in computer science, or a social science, or related field. Strong computational skills, and experience collecting and analyzing social media are essential. The position would be for two years; starting date would be negotiable, but sooner is preferable. Compensation would be competitive. Location would begin as virtual, but would transition to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern in Boston as conditions allow. Application should include: cover letter, CV, writing sample, and two letters of reference. Please send materials to j.briceno@northeastern.edu, with subject line that says “postdoc application for [your name]”. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, and no decision will be made before May 4.
Text Mining Student Specialist
The UW Libraries and eScience Institute are searching for a graduate student starting in fall 2020 to provide text mining assistance for UW students, staff and faculty. This hourly job (8-10h/week) will work in both locations; job duties include providing text mining assistance to UW researchers at various levels, creating guides and tutorials for various techniques and UW resources, and helping assess this new type of service for the Libraries. More information available here.
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Climate Hazards Center
Summary: The Climate Hazards Center (https://chc.ucsb.edu/) at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for an exciting project supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Geological Survey. The project focuses on using remote sensing and machine learning to predict agricultural statistics (crop production, crop yields, prices) in food insecure countries and will directly support the famine early warning efforts of USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). The project will have a strong focus on applications and will leverage cutting edge science to support lives and livelihood saving early warning information.
Qualifications:
Applicants must have completed all requirements for a PhD Degree in Statistics, Geography/Remote Sensing, Agricultural Economics, Agronomy, hydrology, environmental science, Earth Science or a related discipline except the dissertation at the time of application.
Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) SchemeDepartment of Sociology
Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) will offer up to 10 full-time Research Fellowship positions commencing in 2021 (including five fellowships in HASS). Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis and will be fixed-term for three years.
Applicants are eligible only if their PhD has been awarded on or after 1 March 2017 (or if they have successfully made a case at Expression of Interest stage for an exemption to this rule); or their thesis will be submitted on or before 26 August 2020.
If you have an interest in applying for a Fellowship in the 2021 round through the Department of Sociology, please send the following two files:
1. An application document containing:
a. Provisional project title and a brief (400-word) project description.
b. Name of potential Sponsor.
c. PhD award date (or thesis submission date if the PhD is not yet awarded).
2. A CV, including a list of publications. Publications should be listed under the headings: books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and other. Your CV should also briefly detail any career interruptions since the award of your PhD.
Please send applications to Dr Nicholas Harrigan nicholas.harrigan@mq.edu.au by *5pm on Wednesday, 22 April 2020*. To help expedite the process, please name the two files <surname_mqrf_app.docx> and <surname_mqrf_cv>, starting the file name with your surname.
If the Department is able to sponsor your application, you will be notified on* 29 April 2020*. Sponsored applicants will then be invited to work with their sponsors to develop their formal Expressions of Interest which must be submitted to the University by *5 pm* *14 May 2018*.
It is important that there is a good fit between the research interests of applicants and sponsors. For this reason, potential applicants are strongly advised to review the research profiles of potential sponsors from within the Department of Sociology. These can be viewed via this link:
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/organisations/department-of-sociology/persons/
You can also read more about the major research strengths and themes of our department here: