Post-Doctoral position at LIVES, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Deadline for applications: 26 May 2019

NCCR LIVES offers a position as postdoctoral researcher in the project “Meso-level and policy mechanisms of vulnerability”. The successful applicant will study the local context in which adverse life events are experienced, establishing whether and why specific neighbourhood and community economic factors cushion or worsen the negative effects of adverse events on people’s socio-economic trajectories.

This paper, a chapter of Aguirre’s dissertation, argues that migrant healthcare by the United Farm Workers (UFW) and the Chicano Movement’s Clinica de Salubridad de Campesinos (Clinica) in the Imperial-Mexicali borderlands was a labor and social movement politic to provide access to medicine to marginalized farmworkers from both sides of the international border. Though growers and conservative voices continued to see the border as a site of exploitable labor, the UFW and Clinica offered a counternarrative that understood the borderlands as a place of opportunity to launch an innovative social and labor policy that challenged the confines of a regulated and bifurcated border space.

Michael D. Aguirre is completing his PhD in the Department of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. He will be an Inequality in America Initiative postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University beginning in Fall 2019. His work appears in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era, edited by Maylei Blackwell, Maria Cotera, and Dionne Espinoza (UT Press, 2018).

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, https://www.hfedlab.com/

Abstract

Adoption has been hypothesized to increase the risk of mortality for children reared by non-relatives. Yet the sociological and economic contexts shaping decision-making around adoption are critical to understanding associated costs and benefits to adoptive parents. In this talk, I describe the association between adoption and mortality using data drawn from household registers in Taiwan from 1895-1945. In contrast to previous results focused on binary associations, our event history analyses suggest that adopted girls experienced lower or equivalent mortality compared to biological children being raised by their parents. Furthermore, we explore the risk of mortality for girls who were adopted as “little daughters-in-law” (ADIL) to serve as brides for co-resident boys and for girls adopted for any other reason (AD). In this more finely resolved analyses, we confirm that adopted girls experience lower mortality than their biological counterparts, but find that ADIL experience relatively higher mortality than AD. We interpret these findings in light of evolutionary theory addressing the possible costs and benefits of adoption in historical Taiwan.

About the Series

The weekly Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) seminar provides a forum for local and visiting scholars to present current research at the interface of statistics and the social sciences. Talks range in their level of technical detail and substantive motivation, and often result in spirited discussion. During the Winter and Spring 2019 quarters, we are celebrating CSSS’s 20th anniversary, with many speakers drawn from the population of past CSSS students. Current students may receive credit for attending the seminar by enrolling in CS&SS 590. All seminars are held at 12:30 on Wednesdays in Savery (SAV) 409 unless otherwise noted, and we will aim to conclude by 1:30. We provide coffee and light refreshments; attendees are also welcome to bring their lunch. For information or questions about the CSSS Seminars, please contact our Seminar Organizer, Will Brown (brownw@uw.edu). You can receive updates via a mailing list or calendar.

Ready to launch your big idea? Come learn about Amazon Catalyst, a grant program at the UW for big ideas that aim to solve real-world problems at large scale and make a positive social impact.

Spring themes: Urban Transportation & Computational Social Sciences.

At this info session you’ll have a chance to ask questions like, “How developed does my idea need to be?” or “Where can I get support with the Machine Learning component of my idea?” You’ll also receive tips for creating a strong application.
For UW faculty, students, and staff.

Get up to $10K. Apply by May 31.

Snacks will be served!

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An Earl and Edna Stice Memorial Lecture
Sociology Colloquium: “Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart“

Adam Reich, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice. They describe the life experiences that lead workers to Walmart and analyze the dynamics of the shop floor. As a part of the project, Reich and Bearman matched student activists with a nascent association of current and former Walmart associates: the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). They follow the efforts of this new partnership, considering the formation of collective identity and the relationship between social ties and social change. The book draws on a wide array of methods, including participant-observation, oral history, big data, and the analysis of social networks, to reconsider the modern low-wage workplace.

Sponsor: NIH

Program: NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5 Clinical Trial Optional)  https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-19-008.html

Program number: RFA-RM-19-008

Award amount: $1,250,000, plus F&A

Number of applications UW can put forward: 2

OR internal deadline: 5/30/19

OSP deadline: 9/4/19

Sponsor deadline: 9/13/19

Program Description

The NIH Director’s Early Independence Award supports exceptional investigators who wish to pursue independent research essentially after completion of their terminal doctoral/research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, thereby forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training period and accelerating their entry into an independent research career. For the program to support the best possible researchers and research, applications are sought which reflect the full diversity of the research workforce. Individuals from diverse backgrounds and from the full spectrum of eligible institutions in all geographic locations are strongly encouraged to apply to this Funding Opportunity Announcement. In addition, applications in all topics relevant to the broad mission of NIH are welcome, including, but not limited to, topics in the behavioral, social, biomedical, applied, and formal sciences and topics that may involve basic, translational, or clinical research. The NIH Director’s Early Independence Award is a component of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program of the NIH Common Fund.

Pre-proposal instructions

Please submit:

1. a one-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
2. CV (not NIH format)  of the PI
3. A letter of support from the Dean or Chair. This letter of support signifies that the Dean or Chair have ensured that the nominee and application are likely to be of sufficient quality to be competitive nationally

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday May 30, 2019.Proposals are due to the sponsor 9/13/19, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 9/4/19 for processing, if given the go ahead by the Proposal Review Committee. Other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the internal proposal review committee review and selection process outline, are here: http://www.uw.edu/research/funding/limited-submissions/.  Please feel free to email us at research@uw.edu with questions or information on any limited submission opportunities that should be but are not already listed on that page.