The Center on Poverty and Social Policy, at the Columbia University School of Social Work, is seeking a postdoctoral scholar with a PhD in economics, public policy, demography, social work, sociology or a related discipline to conduct analyses on poverty at the national, state, and local levels. The postdoc will work with faculty and staff to conduct new analyses of antipoverty policies using an improved measure of poverty based on the supplemental poverty measure (SPM) recently developed by the United States Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The project will focus on policy impacts across multiple levels of government and historical trends therein. The project will also focus on key vulnerable subgroups that are targets of policy concern (e.g., young adults, parents of young children). The postdoctoral fellowship is for one year, with the option to renew for a second year contingent on performance and funding.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

Please submit the following materials under the subject line of CPSP Postdoc to cpsp@columbia.edu:

• CV or resume
• Sample paper or publication
• Three letters of recommendation

Each application will be evaluated on the following criteria:

• The degree of fit of research interests
• How the postdoctoral training will help to further the postdoctoral scholar’s research trajectory
• Demonstrated record of work with quantitative data
• Demonstrated quality of writing
• Strength of letters of support

We are highly interested in candidates from underrepresented groups.  Review of applicants will begin immediately.

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Organizational Unit Overview
East Carolina University (http://www.ecu.edu) is a Doctoral/Research-Intensive University, and a member of the 17-campus University of North Carolina System. The University enrolls around 29,000 students, with over 5,500 pursuing graduate and professional degrees. ECU is located in Greenville, NC (pop. 91,500), which lies about 80 miles east of Raleigh and a short distance from the Atlantic coast. The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences is home to 16 academic departments. Harriot College faculty are well recognized on campus, nationally, and internationally for their efforts in research, teaching, and service, as evidenced by publications in leading journals, and by the numerous awards and professional appointments that they have received. Harriot College departments offer degrees at the bachelor’s level, and in some departments at the master’s and doctoral levels. The College’s Center for Survey Research serves public agencies, private clients, university scholars, and students with questionnaire development and design, sampling strategies, data collection, and statistical analysis. It also conducts research for public education and outreach.

Job Duties
The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in social science survey research methods and big data analytics to begin August 12, 2019. The successful applicant will serve as an affiliated scholar with the College’s Center for Survey Research (CSR; http://surveyresearch.ecu.edu) and will join the faculty in one of the following departments: Anthropology; Criminal Justice; Economics; Geography, Planning, and Environment; History; Political Science; Psychology; or Sociology. The successful candidate will be expected to offer innovative ideas about how to incorporate big data analysis with existing CSR projects, such as its Life, Liberty, and Happiness Project (https://surveyresearch.ecu.edu/lifelibertyhappiness). Candidates must be committed to quality teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and be willing to develop curriculum and teach courses in survey research methods, with the goal of creating expanded research opportunities for students at the CSR and in their home department. Service to the university, community and profession is expected.

ECU seeks to create an environment that fosters the recruitment and retention of a more diverse student body, faculty, staff, and administration. To promote the university’s diversity goal, the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences values diversity and strongly encourages applications from women, people of color, and historically underrepresented groups.

Minimum Education/Experience
A PhD in Anthropology, Criminal Justice or Criminology, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science or Government, Psychology, Sociology, or Urban Planning is required. Qualifying degrees must be conferred by an appropriately accredited institution. The successful candidate is expected to establish a collaborative, synergistic, productive, and externally funded research program, and to be an excellent teacher at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education
The ideal candidate will have an established research program that utilizes data and text mining, data visualization, predictive modeling, spatial modeling, network analysis, and/or usability research using big data sources (e.g., social media data, website metadata). We also will consider those highly skilled in GIS analysis.

Special Instructions to Applicant
To apply, complete a candidate profile and submit a letter of interest, a CV, contact information for three current references, and a sample of current scholarship online at http://jobs.ecu.edu. Also, arrange for three current letters of reference to be sent to: Dr. Peter Francia, Search Committee Chair, Brewster A-124, Mail Stop 564, Department of Political Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858. Review of applications will begin on December 8, 2018 and continue until the position is filled. Official transcript is required upon employment. Inquiries about the position can be addressed to Dr. Peter L. Francia, Director of the Center for Survey Research, at csr@ecu.edu.

Additional Instructions to Applicants
In order to be considered for this position, applicants must complete a candidate profile online via the PeopleAdmin system and submit any requested documents. Additionally, applicants that possess the preferred education and experience must also possess the minimum education/experience, if applicable.

Applications will be considered until position is filled. Please submit an online ECU application for vacancy # 600059 to ECU Human Resources at http://jobs.ecu.edu.

East Carolina University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Visit this job posting at https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/22852

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth supports social science research investigating whether and how inequality affects economic growth. They are currently requesting proposals in the areas of macroeconomic policy, market structure, human capital, and the labor market. The full request and more information on our grantmaking can be found on their website.

Grants for faculty are generally in the range of $25,000 to $100,000, and grants of $15,000 are available for current PhD students or those in postdoctoral positions. Applications for faculty are due January 31, 2019 and are due for PhD students on March 10, 2019.

This is the same grant that our very own CSDE Fellow Hilary Wething, PhD student at the Evans School, received to examine how Seattle’s law requiring paid sick leave is impacting worker pay and productivity.

Please feel free to contact them at grants@equitablegrowth.org if you have any questions about these opportunities.

Jordanna Bailkin delivers a Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities. Bailkin is UW Professor of History, Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies, and author of the new book Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain (Oxford, 2018).

A scholar of modern Britain and Empire, Bailkin is the author of The Culture of Property (2004), and The Afterlife of Empire (2012). The Afterlife of Empire won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association, the Stansky Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies, and the Biennial Book Prize from the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. She has also written articles on tattooing in Burma, interracial murder in India, and parenthood in Nigeria.

More on Unsettled:

Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen “elsewhere”, from Greece, to Palestine, to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians, and Vietnamese. Refugee camps in Britain were never only for refugees. Refugees shared a space with Britons who had been displaced by war and poverty, as well as thousands of civil servants and a fractious mix of volunteers. Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain explores how these camps have shaped today’s multicultural Britain. They generated unique intimacies and frictions, illuminating the closeness of individuals that have traditionally been kept separate–“citizens” and “migrants”, but also refugee populations from diverse countries and conflicts.

As the world’s refugee crisis once again brings to Europe the challenges of mass encampment, Unsettled offers warnings from a liberal democracy’s recent past. Through lively anecdotes from interviews with former camp residents and workers Unsettled conveys the vivid, everyday history of refugee camps, which witnessed births and deaths, love affairs and violent conflicts, strikes and protests, comedy and tragedy. Their story–like that of today’s refugee crisis–is one of complicated intentions that played out in unpredictable ways. The aim of this book is not to redeem camps–nor, indeed, to condemn them. It is to refuse to ignore them. Unsettled speaks to all who are interested in the plight of the encamped, and the global uses of encampment in our present world.

On Thursday December 6 at 3:30, Olga Troyanskaya (Princeton) will deliver a Paul G. Allen School Distinguished Lecture on “Data-driven understanding of human disease: from machine learning methods to  biological discoveries.”

Please join us. EEB105 at 3:30 for the talk, reception to follow at 4:30 in the Allen Center atrium.

Come learn about the opportunities for collaboration with ADVANCE’s “community laboratory” on engaging vulnerable patients in Patient Centered Outcomes Research!

The University of Pittsburgh’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Anthropology beginning August 1, 2019. We seek a cultural anthropologist specializing in the African Diaspora within North America whose research and teaching centers on social, historical, or cultural dimensions of inequality. Topics might relate, for example, to inequalities of race/ethnicity, class, gender, health, migration, citizenship and/or sexuality among African-descended peoples in North America. Special consideration will be given to researchers conducting work in the American “rust belt” Midwest or Northeast . The ideal candidate’s area(s) of specialty will also relate broadly to one or more of the cultural anthropology clusters, especially Medicine/Health, Labor and Politics, or Migration & Citizenship.

Recognizing that intellectual vitality and diversity are inseparable, the university has embarked on significant initiatives to diversify its faculty, student body, and curriculum. We encourage applications from creative and dedicated scholars, teachers, and mentors eager to contribute to this mission, including those who have spent some time outside academia (e.g., in policy, business, nonprofit, advocacy, or health fields).

The successful applicant will add new intellectual and/or regional trajectories to our course offerings and teach one course per term. Departmental funding will be provided to the postdoctoral fellow in the amount of $5,000 each year to organize a spring workshop that will focus on the fellow’s research interests. Secondary affiliation and cross-teaching with the dynamic programs in Africana Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Urban Studies, Public Health, or other relevant programs will be enthusiastically  supported.

Applicants must have satisfactorily completed all requirements for the Ph.D. degree, including any oral defense, by March 1, 2019. Individuals who completed all such requirements before January 1, 2017 are ineligible. For more information about the fellowship program and to apply, click https://www.as.pitt.edu/dietrich-school-diversity-postdoctoral-fellowships

To be considered, please submit by February 22, 2019 via https://pats.as.pitt.edu/apply/index/MTMz: curriculum vitae; dissertation table of contents; two-page statement of research interests outlining the goals of the research you will undertake during the term of the fellowship; two-page statement of teaching interests and philosophy; one-to-two-page diversity statement, discussing how your past, planned, or potential contributions or experiences relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion will advance the University of Pittsburgh’s commitment to inclusive excellence; one writing sample or excerpt of no more than 20 pages including references and appendices; one course proposal and syllabus for a 15-week course directed towards advanced undergraduate or graduate students; and email contacts for three recommenders. For each reference, you will have the opportunity to input a personal email address or an email address generated through Interfolio’s Online Application Delivery. In either case, an email notification will be sent to the designated address with instructions for uploading letters to our system by March 1, 2019.

The University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and values equality of opportunity, human dignity and diversity. EEO/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.

The Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien) is proposing the appointment of three Postdoctoral Fellows in International Studies for two years, from 23 September 2019. Geared towards promoting the professional development of the appointee, he/she will focus on his/her own research and do a limited amount of graduate teaching.

The successful candidate must hold – or have evidence of the imminent completion of – a doctorate in Economics, History, Law or Political Science. Our School interprets International Studies broadly. Applications from all these disciplines, including candidates with area expertise (such as European Studies) are welcome. A record of research achievement at the international level, a strong agenda for future research and previous teaching experience – preferably at graduate level – are essential.

The Vienna School of International Studies is a professional school, specialized in the interdisciplinary training of graduate students, and an associate member of APSIA. The presence of international organizations in Vienna makes for excellent research opportunities, in particular for research dealing with diplomacy, governance and multilateralism broadly defined.

The closing date for applications is Sunday, 20 January 2019, midnight.

Depending on seniority and experience, the postdoctoral fellow will be offered a yearly salary (before taxes and social security contribution) between EUR 36.000 and 39.000.

Please apply online at https://application.da-vienna.ac.at/postdoc/Application. Your curriculum vitae, your research agenda (5-10 pages), and teaching documentation (e.g. syllabi of courses taught, student evaluations, statement on teaching philosophy, etc) may be sent to us by e-mail (genny.chiarandon@da-vienna.ac.at) or mail (Genny Chiarandon, Vienna School of International Studies, Favoritenstrasse 15a, 1040 Vienna, Austria). Please also make sure that we receive three letters of recommendation (e-mailed directly by your referees/dossier service, or mailed in a sealed envelope).

For further details, please contact Genny Chiarandon (see above address).