The Technology Project Management (TPM) program at the University of Houston seeks qualified candidates for a 9-month non-tenure-track Instructional Assistant Professor position in Technology Project Management. The preferred candidate will be responsible for teaching courses in this master’s level program on topics directly related to the processes outlined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) from the Project Management Institute. Additionally, this person will participate in program, department, and college committee assignments and in other activities related to the TPM program and the rest of the campus. The anticipated start date is September 1, 2020.

The Education Technology (EdTech) team within the Digital Learning & Innovation (DL&I) office is searching for a Data Modeler and Developer. Under the general direction of the Director of Educational Technology, the Data Modeler and Developer provides hands-on design and development of data and analytics solutions; This individual serves as the technical lead for data application development on the EdTech team.

The position manages technical delivery throughout the full cycle of data analytics projects; works with campus business end users to determine functional report requirements, writes technical specifications based on user requirements, and designs, develops, tests and maintains reports and dashboards using the appropriate tools; designs and implements data & analytics solutions. Works closely with the relevant DL&I units; plans and coordinates technical aspects of release and maintenance of data and analytics products. In close consultation with the Ed Tech Director, identifies, recommends and promotes utilization of the appropriate reporting tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, PowerBI, Tableau); contributes to the development of the analytics strategic plan, setting of goals and priorities based on the DL& I vision and campus initiatives. The position serves as a data architect to enable integration of data from varied data sources, including learning management systems (edX), student information system, and other institutional applications to produce reports and dashboards in support of organizational needs; serves as a liaison with user areas to understand their analytics and reporting needs.

 The position plays a key role in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle processes. Responsible for implementation of system enhancements that will directly benefit students, faculty, and staff; prepares or approves detailed specifications for approved modifications, reviews and evaluates testing results for completeness and accuracy, and reviews user documentation produced in support of the DL&I applications. Works in a fast paced, team environment with multiple deadlines; Performs other duties as assigned.

The School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) is seeking to appoint a Lecturer (Level B) in the Department of Political Economy. This lectureship will further consolidate SSPS as a key centre for research and teaching in political economy. The successful appointee will teach at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, pursue an independent research agenda while contributing to strategic research priorities, and play a role in initiating new strategic research and teaching initiatives within the school, faculty and University.

Staff in the Department of Political Economy conduct research on globalisation, development, the environment, energy, labour, gender, race, history of economic thought, neoliberalism, public policy, human rights, markets and finance. They work in a variety of traditions (including post-Keynesian, Marxian, feminist, and institutionalist perspectives) across a number of discipline areas (including economic history, the history of economic thought, economic sociology, geography, international political economy, development studies and labour studies).

Intending applicants are welcome to seek further information about the position from the Chair of Department, Professor Martijn Konings at martijn.konings@sydney.edu.au

 For recruitment-related enquiries, or if you require reasonable adjustment or support filling out this application, please contact Nicole Feain / Paulina Rojas on 02 8627 8615 or at recruitment.ablc@sydney.edu.au

 Job Reference No. 2581/1119C

Routine pre-employment probity checks will be carried out for this position.

Closing date: 11:30pm, Monday 6 January 2020

The University of Sydney is committed to diversity and social inclusion. Applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; equity target groups including women, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTIQ; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged.

The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.

The Department of Geography and the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies (LCS) at Rutgers University invite applicants for a Tenure Track position of Assistant Professor in Latinx Geographies. The search will seek a candidate whose appointment would be split between Geography and LCS and whose teaching and research interests offer innovative theoretical or methodological perspectives. Topical areas might include, for example, carceral geographies, environmental justice, food systems, gender and sexuality, health, housing, labor geography, migration and (im)mobilities, or urbanism. We will give preference to a candidate whose interests complement and build upon the existing profile of Geography and LCS faculty, whose scholarship demonstrates empirical and theoretical rigor, and who uses spatial or other innovative methods. We will also give preference to a candidate who can help diversify our faculty or draw a more diverse student body to our respective disciplines. The candidate will be expected to teach and advise students at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the relevant fields of Geography and Latino and Caribbean Studies. A demonstration of excellence in scholarly research is required.

Application materials include: cover letter, CV, a combined statement of research, teaching, and contributions to diversity, two writing samples, and a list of three references.

For additional information about the application process, please contact Kelly Bernstein (kellbern@rutgers.edu) Sr. Department Administrator. For additional information about the position please contact Asher Ghertner (a.ghertner@rutgers.edu) Search Committee Chair.

The Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University is seeking a part-time Adjunct Faculty Member to teach SOCY-110: Views from the Global South.

The course is both a gateway to the sociology major and part of the General Education curriculum (Area 3. Global and cross cultural experience). It presents a sociological approach to the Global South through study of the works of its own intellectuals and political leaders, linking texts to context; through reflections on the development of the “Third World” and critical engagement with the dilemmas of and contemporary issues facing the Global South. A course syllabus and other material will be provided to the instructor, although she or he will have discretion to adapt them to meet instructional goals.

The ideal candidate will hold (or be close to completing) a doctorate in sociology or anthropology or a related field and will possess a strong understanding of the Global South. In addition, candidates should have successful teaching experience at the undergraduate level and should provide relevant course evaluation, if available, as part of the application package.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, names and contact information for three references, and (if possible) copies of recent teaching evaluations. Please submit applications electronically to Michael Murphy for the Department of Sociology at mmurph@american.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Description

The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time sociocultural anthropologist whose expertise centers on the effects of race and racism on health and health inequalities. Geographic and methodological expertise are open. 

UW Anthropology tenure-track faculty engage in research, teaching, and service, and have an annual service period of nine months (September 16-June 15). The position is expected to begin September 16, 2020 with the start of the autumn quarter. responsibilities will include four courses in Anthropology, distributed between three academic terms (quarters), contributing to our undergraduate option in Medical Anthropology as well as to our sociocultural graduate program. The candidate is expected to teach both a large introductory lecture class and more specialized upper-division and graduate courses based in their areas of expertise, using innovative and inclusive pedagogies. Other professional duties include an active research program and service to the Department and University. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic community, and the successful applicant will be expected to include integrity and equity in their research, teaching, and service. The University of Washington serves a diverse population of 80,000 students, faculty and staff, including 34% first-generation college students and over 27% Pell Grant students. A recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan award for Faculty Career Flexibility, the UW supports career development and work-life balance for faculty.

Members of the Department of Anthropology maintain strong connections to many other units on campus. Our interests include the intersectionality of race/gender/sexuality/class discrimination, state and institutional violence; critical race theory; decolonization of global health, health institutions, and bureaucracies; racial justice; environmental racism and resistance; youth health activism; racialization of disease; infections and inequalities; the meaning and measurement of race in biomedicine and public health; racism and racial-genetic determinism in genomic projects; participatory and community ethnographies of health. 

Qualifications

Qualifications: A record of research that includes a focus on the intersection of race, racism, and health is required. We will accept applications from cultural anthropologists with expertise in all geographic and methodological areas. Applicants must have earned a doctorate, or foreign equivalent, in anthropology, or related field, by the date of appointment; however, applicants who have not completed their PhD at the time of application will be considered. 

Application Instructions

To apply, use Interfolio and include the following items: (1) cover letter, (2) curriculum vitae, (3) research statement (explanation of research activities and accomplishments as well as future plans) (4) diversity statement (how the applicant’s teaching, research and/or service contribute to diversity through scholarship and/or by improving access to higher education for underrepresented individuals or groups), (5) teaching statement (addressing teaching philosophy and approaches to both large lecture courses and seminars, and discussion of teaching challenges and their solutions), (6) a list of courses the applicant is prepared to teach with one paragraph abstract for each, and (7) the names and contacts for three referees. As a guideline, we are looking for 1-2 pages (single spaced) for each of the statements on research, diversity, and teaching. The cover letter should be addressed to Dr. Laada Bilaniuk, search committee chair, Department of Anthropology. Review of applications will begin on December 20, 2019.

Beginning this week and continuing through the final week of the quarter, the UW Sociology Department will be hosting seven faculty candidates in the Stice-sponsored Future of Sociology talk series. The department encourages faculty and students to meet each of the speakers and attend as many talks as possible. All talks will take place in SAV 409. Here is the lineup of our visitors:

Priya Fielding-Singh Tuesday, November 19, 12:00 p.m.
The Taste of Inequality: Food’s Symbolic Value and the Reproduction of Diet Disparities

Significant diet disparities in the United States follow a socioeconomic gradient. Scholars often account for these disparities using structural explanations that highlight differences in people’s access to food. These explanations assume that people eat simply to nourish themselves and to survive. But eating is about much more than physical nourishment: we eat not only to live, but to fulfill other functions, among them, to provide for loved ones, to cultivate belonging, to show affection, and to signal status. Drawing on 160 in-depth interviews with parents and adolescents and over 100 hours of participant observations with families across socioeconomic status, I show how food’s symbolic meanings help drive diet disparities.
Priya Fielding-Singh is a Sociologist and National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Her research investigates health disparities across class, race, and gender in the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University, a M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Bremen, and a B.S. in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University.

Melissa Barragan Wednesday, November 20, 3:30 p.m.
Changing the Dynamic: Gun Violence & Community-Based Intervention in Richmond, CA

Over the last nine years, the city of Richmond, California has reduced their homicide rate by nearly seventy-percent, much of which is related to a decline in gun violence. Integrating 150 hours of fieldwork data with longitudinal crime data, Census data, and over 100 newspaper articles and reports, I examine the local level conditions and processes that have shaped Richmond’s varied history with gun violence since the turn of the century. My presentation will focus primarily on the theme of community mobilization and intervention. Specifically, I will discuss how residents, in collaboration with local organizations, have come to develop a robust network of gun violence reduction strategies since the early 2000s. In addition to documenting what this network looks like, I will discuss the collective impacts this work for gun violence reduction in the city, as well as the implications of my findings for theories of informal social control and gun violence prevention in urban centers.
Melissa Barragan is a PhD Candidate in Criminology, Law and Society at UC Irvine. Her primary line of research explores issues related to urban gun violence, including illegal gun possession and community-based prevention. Her secondary area of research focuses on impacts the of incarceration, particularly for prisoners held in solitary confinement.
 
Patricia Louie Thursday, November 21, 12:00 p.m.
The Category vs. the Continuum: Specifying Race and Skin Tone Disparities in Health

While it is clear that race and skin tone have powerfully shaped experiences of inequality throughout history, the interrelationship between these two systems of stratification are rarely studied together. Using merged data from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) and the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), I evaluate the effects of race and skin tone on the social patterning of diabetes, hypertension, and any DSM-IV mental disorder, among Black and White Americans. Findings indicate that categorical inequality based on racial identity is far greater than the often smaller and non-significant differences due to skin tone among African Americans. These findings highlight the influential role that race, regardless of skin tone, plays in structuring mental and physical health disparities. The results of this study have implications for studying race and skin tone in sociological research, as well as for policies that target health inequality.
Patricia Louie is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health, with a focus on the mechanisms that underlie racial disparities in mental and physical health. In her current research, she examines how racialization processes based on skin tone, mixed-race status, and nativity shape population patterns of health. Patricia currently holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the Social Science and Research Council of Canada.

Zimife Umeh Monday, November 25, 12:00 p.m.
Strategic Engagement: Formerly Incarcerated Black Women and the Labor Market

Previous research suggests that the mark of a criminal record has short- and long-term adverse consequences on employment. However, despite the growing number of incarcerated women, existing research largely documents the labor market experiences of system-involved men. Drawing from intersectional frameworks that explore how social categories such as race, class, and gender create independent and overlapping systems of disadvantage, I examine how race and gender shapes formerly incarcerated women’s experiences in the labor market. Using 40 in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated women, I find women use four key strategies to navigate labor market reentry: 1) identifying employers with low barriers to entry; 2) activating social networks; 3) disclosing criminal records; and 4) preemptive perception management. I argue that racial variations exist in women’s access to, use of, and the effectiveness of these strategies.
Zimife Umeh is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Duke University. She is a mixed-methods sociologist who studies criminal justice, gender, inequality, and education. Her current research project examines how formerly incarcerated women navigate various institutions during the incarceration and reentry periods. Her previous research in education explores academic achievement and school discipline.

Jerel Ezell Tuesday, December 3, 12:00 p.m.
Theater of Crisis: A Mixed Methods Examination of the Flint Water Crisis

There have been few anthropogenic conundrums of the scale and tenor witnessed in the Flint Water Crisis, a “man-made” environmental event occurring in one of America’s most impoverished cities. However, as a global audience and a sizable portion of Flint’s populace have decried both the substantiated and presumed impacts of residents’ exposure to the contaminated water supply, another contingent has actively repelled mainstream framings of the event as a crisis. Resultantly, fixes for the “crisis” have been at-once both novel and exceptionally anachronistic, inextricably linked to processes of post-industrial experimentation and threaded to longstanding racial and income-based inequality in America. Further, these fixes have doubly failed to account for the stark public mistrust which was sowed in response to officials’ obtuse decision-making and fraught response. This “theater of crisis,” addressed in this talk, reflects interpolating perceptions of crisis, its genesis, its pragmatic nature, and its social and health consequences.
Jerel Ezell, MA, MPH is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago, a Fulbright Scholar and a researcher at the University of Chicago Medical Center. His current research examines health disparities and civic retrenchment, exploring intersections between population health, institutions and austerity in post-industrial American communities.

Magda Boutros Wednesday, December 4, 3:30 p.m.
Antiracism Without Races: How Activists Expose Racialized Policing in Colorblind France

In France, the dominant ideology views the concept of “race” as regressive and essentializing, and the law prohibits the collection of data on people’s race or ethnicity. While extant scholarship has analyzed French colorblindness as an obstacle to the production of knowledge about race, this talk shifts the analytical focus, from examining colorblindness as an obstacle to knowledge, to examining how activists address this obstacle and endeavor to produce knowledge making racial inequalities visible. Through an analysis of two contemporary mobilizations organizing against racialized policing practices in France, I analyze and compare three ways in which activists have produced knowledge about the role of race in policing. I argue that different modes of knowledge production – and the different types of evidence they generate about the role of race in policing – shape how mobilizations frame racialized policing, as a problem of racist individuals, institutionalized racism, or structural racism.
Magda Boutros is a PhD candidate in sociology at Northwestern University. Her current project examines how activists expose racialized policing patterns in colorblind France. Her work has been published in Theory & Society, Law & Society Review, and in the French journal Mouvements. 

Miguel Quintana-Navarrete Friday, December 6, 12:00 p.m.
Environmental Violence and Children’s Cognitive Performance in Mexico

A small but growing literature indicates that violent environments impair children’s cognitive performance, but this research has been carried out almost exclusively in large American cities. I argue that this focus has restricted the range of observed relationships and mechanisms between environmental violence and cognitive performance and I leverage a novel setting (Mexico) to analyze the connection between these factors, before and during a period when violence in some areas of Mexico erupted into an armed conflict. I find an inverted U-shaped relationship, which implies that some levels of violence increase cognitive performance in children, but also that there is an inflection point in the intensity of violence –associated with the armed conflict– beyond which cognitive scores decrease dramatically. I build on the concepts of violence ‘normalization’ and environmental complexity to argue that the wide range of residential environments that I analyze and the Mexican and Latin American contexts can help explain these results.
Miguel Quintana-Navarrete is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. His main areas of interest are the sociology of crime and law, urban and community sociology, and political sociology. He holds a BA in Law (JD equivalent) from Universidad de Sonora (Mexico) and an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice from King’s College London. 

The Behavioral Sciences department is seeking qualified part-time instructors to teach sociology. Teaching assignment(s) may include any of the curriculum approved courses within the discipline of sociology.

The goal of this international conference is to holistically examine leisure engagements by older participants in Asia (from 55 years old and above), the socio-economic and cultural factors that influence their leisure lifestyles (eg. family structures and relationships, class, ethnicity, region, etc.), and the implications and effects leisure participation has on both participants and their socio-economic and cultural environments. Leisure activities that are being looked at in this conference include, but are not limited to: sports, physical and mental games, music, arts and crafts, language learning, and others.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (250 words) and a brief personal biography (150 words) for submission by 15 February 2020. Please note that only previously unpublished papers or those not already committed elsewhere can be accepted. The organizers plan to publish a special journal issue that incorporates some selected papers presented at the conference. By participating in the conference, you agree to participate in the future publication plans of the organizers. Hotel accommodation and a contribution towards airfare will be provided for accepted paper participants (one author per paper).

Please submit your proposal using the provided template to Ms Minghua Tay at minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 March 2020. Participants will be required to send in a completed draft paper (5,000 words) by 11 August 2020.