Call for Chapter Proposals:

Routledge Handbook of African Demography: A book to be edited by Clifford Odimegwu, PhD, Wits University, South Africa.

Proposal Submission Deadline: 31 October 2019.

African demography in terms of structure, training and research has been in transition since 1994, leading to a massive increase in the number of population scientists and research outputs. With the golden generation of African demographers and population scientists tending to retirement from training and research scenes, there is urgent need to document the body of research in Africa in the past 50 years and define the future of African demographic scholarship.

Principally the handbook will be a comprehensive collection and documentation of methodological, theoretical, practical and substantive issues on African demography. The book will also provide exhaustive bibliography rich in references to African demography research done in Africa by Africans and African scholars. The handbook will be an essential collection for teachers, researchers, policy makers and programmers in the field of population research. No new study or analysis is needed, except a comprehensive review of what is known and what should be known in the next decades of demographic research in Africa.

The handbook is expected to be launched at the forthcoming IUSSP conference in India in 2021.

Abstracts should be sent by email to Prof Clifford Odimegwu: Clifford.Odimegwu@wits.ac.za.

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The Department of Demography at University of California at Berkeley is generating an applicant pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach a range of courses in the department should openings arise during the following terms: Spring 2020, Summer 2020, and Fall 2020. This pool will remain open until October 15th, 2020 to accommodate upcoming course needs and new applicants. If you wish to remain in the pool after October 15th, 2020, you will need to reapply.

Getting Connected is GO-MAP’s largest event of the year! It’s an excellent opportunity for graduate students of color across disciplines to mingle, break bread and dance!

The first half of Getting Connected is the New Student Orientation.

The New Student Orientation is the perfect place for new graduate students of color to learn tips and tricks for succeeding in graduate school. Through a series of panels with current graduate students and faculty of color, incoming graduate students can get a taste of campus life and set the stage for a vibrant first year.

We look forward to seeing you alll on Thursday, October 10th!

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Diablo Valley College in Contra Costa County, California is seeking to add to its pool of adjunct faculty who can teach Cultural Anthropology.

Minimum Qualifications include: Master’s in Anthropology or Archaeology, OR Bachelor’s in either Anthropology or Archaeology AND Master’s degree in Sociology, Biological Sciences, Forensic Sciences, genetics or paleontology, OR the equivalent. (If you do not possess the listed degree, you must upload the equivalency form provided in the online application.)

Deadline to apply is on December 31, 2019. Please click the link below for more information.

Research position with financial support to off-set the cost of graduate school as you hone your research and work toward a career in academia.

The Humane Studies Fellowship is a renewable, non-residency fellowship with compensation up to $15,000 per year for current or future students enrolled in full-time PhD programs. Intended for students interested in developing, teaching, and applying classical liberal ideas and the principles of a free society, this program supports research and teaching in both the social sciences and the humanities.

Application Opens: August 1, 2019
Applications Close: December 1, 2019

Summer Fellowships Announced: January 15, 2020
Fall Fellowships Announced: March 2, 2020

Fellows are free to use the funds to further their research as they see fit, including summer course buyouts, purchasing data sets, funding research travel, and more. Once you become a Fellow, IHS becomes a partner and a champion for your academic career. The Humane Studies Fellowship connects you with a community of other scholars dedicated to advancing the classical liberal tradition through civil discourse and research. Fellowship recipients may also receive opportunities for individual academic advising, mentoring, networking programs, and other career-advancing resources.

Research interests from previous Humane Studies Fellows have included but are not limited to:

• The legal development of privacy and property rights in 18th-century England
• The role of patient autonomy in bioethics
• Impediments to economic growth in developing countries
• The relationship between U.S. presidential politics, fiscal policies, and economic performance

Information about the Institute for Humane Studies: The Institute for Humane Studies partners with professors to promote the teaching and research of liberty and to advance higher education’s core purpose of intellectual discovery and human progress. Our vision is to ensure higher education becomes a place where classical liberal ideas are regularly taught, discussed, challenged, and developed, and where free speech, intellectual diversity, and open inquiry flourish.

The Inequality in America Initiative seeks applications from recent doctoral degree recipients interested in joining a multidisciplinary network of Harvard researchers working to address the manifold challenges of inequality. This program is intended to seed new research directions, facilitate collaboration across disciplines, and develop new leaders in the study of inequality who can publish at the highest level, reach the widest audience, and impact policy.

The fellowship is a two-year postdoctoral training program, with an optional third year conditional on program director approval and independent funding. The award includes $67,000/year plus fringe; office space; a $17,500 research account; up to $3,000 (incl. taxes) for relocation; and up to $3,000 for a manuscript workshop. Deadline to apply is on November 15, 2019.

The program director will pair each fellow with two Harvard faculty mentors (one from outside the fellow’s primary discipline), participating in one or more of five research clusters:

• • Mobility and Migration
• • Science, Technology, Education, and Health
• • Work, Family, and Opportunity
• • Governance, Citizenship, and Social Justice
• • America Inequality, Globally

Applicants to the fall 2020 program must have received a doctorate or equivalent terminal degree in April 2017 or later; applicants without a terminal degree must demonstrate that they will receive one by August 2020.

See more at https://inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu/postdoctoral-program

Research position with financial support to off-set the cost of graduate school as you hone your research and work toward a career in academia.

The Humane Studies Fellowship is a renewable, non-residency fellowship with compensation up to $15,000 per year for current or future students enrolled in full-time PhD programs. Intended for students interested in developing, teaching, and applying classical liberal ideas and the principles of a free society, this program supports research and teaching in both the social sciences and the humanities.

Application Opens: August 1, 2019
Applications Close: December 1, 2019

Summer Fellowships Announced: January 15, 2020
Fall Fellowships Announced: March 2, 2020

Fellows are free to use the funds to further their research as they see fit, including summer course buyouts, purchasing data sets, funding research travel, and more. Once you become a Fellow, IHS becomes a partner and a champion for your academic career. The Humane Studies Fellowship connects you with a community of other scholars dedicated to advancing the classical liberal tradition through civil discourse and research. Fellowship recipients may also receive opportunities for individual academic advising, mentoring, networking programs, and other career-advancing resources.

Research interests from previous Humane Studies Fellows have included but are not limited to:

• The legal development of privacy and property rights in 18th-century England
• The role of patient autonomy in bioethics
• Impediments to economic growth in developing countries
• The relationship between U.S. presidential politics, fiscal policies, and economic performance

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Call for papers from the Taylor & Francis Group on the housing affordability crisis in the advanced economies: drivers, implications, and solutions.

Offers of proposed papers should be emailed to Vincent Reina at vreina@upenn.edu by November 20, 2019.  They should include the institutional affiliation and contact details of the author(s); a title and an abstract of no more than 500 words.

The guest editors will then notify authors about which abstracts have been selected by December 1, 2019.  Authors of all of the accepted abstracts will be expected to submit their full papers for guest editor review by February 1, 2020.  The guest editors will provide comments and then revised papers will be submitted to the journal’s standard peer-review procedures by April 1, 2020. These papers will go through a traditional double-blind peer-review process.  Due to the urgency of this topic, and the proposed review timeline, there will be no flexibility on deadlines.

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The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites incoming and returning graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels to a meet-and-greet event to make connections across the many departments and disciplines of the humanities and social sciences at the University of Washington. The Simpson Center offers UW scholars varied opportunities for intellectual community, professional development, and financial support that advance crossdisciplinary understanding, collaboration, and research. On Thursday, October 10, 3-5PM in the Communications Building Room 204, stop by to learn more about our fellowships, events, and research clusters, and to talk about shared interests with colleagues beyond your department. Refreshments served.

All new and returning graduate students are welcome. Please feel free to share this invitation. To help us estimate attendance, please RSVP at simpsoncenter.org…

Questions? Contact Rachel Arteaga, Simpson Center Assistant Director, at rarteaga@uw.edu.

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