Population Council
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Floor 3
New York, NY 10017

The seminar will present new data sources and analysis from the UN Population Division on urbanization and potential environmental impacts on cities. The first presentation will provide an overview of results and key findings from the 2018 Revision of the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. The second presentation will introduce the Population Division’s City Boundaries Database. The final presentation will discuss the risks of exposure and vulnerability to natural disasters for the world’s major urban areas, based on new Population Division data.

A panel discussion will build on the presentations and address current issues on data for urban areas and cities.

The Provost of the University of Washington is investing in an ongoing initiative focused on Data-Driven Discovery. In support of this effort, the University of Washington Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor with a specialization in data science or computational social science, to begin September 2019. The position will be a full-time permanent appointment in Sociology, and will include active research and service engagement with the UW eScience Institute, as appropriate. As part of their regular teaching duties, the holder of this position will teach at least one course per year with an explicit data science focus that could be of interest to the broader UW community.  This appointment has a 9 month service period.

We encourage applications from exceptional candidates with expertise in methodologies that leverage large-scale data for sociological research and whose research, teaching and outreach will advance new computational or statistical tools and techniques for the social sciences. The substantive sociological areas of interest and research are open, but we seek scholars whose research complements at least one areas of existing strength in the Department and university (population health, criminology, migration/immigration, politics, gender and sexuality, organizations, inequality, race/ethnicity and demography).

The University of California, Berkeley seeks a collaborative and user-centered librarian to join a team of specialists supporting world-class research and teaching in the social sciences through active engagement with collection development, data and information literacy initiatives, coursebased instruction, individual research assistance, and outreach to students, faculty and the broader academic community. This position serves as subject librarian for Sociology and Demography, and takes a leadership role in providing support for quantitative research methods throughout the social sciences.

The Environment
The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned research and teaching facility at one of the nation’s premier public universities. A highly diverse and intellectually rich environment, Berkeley serves a campus community of 30,000 undergraduate students, over 11,000 graduate students, and 1,500 faculty. With a collection of more than 12 million volumes and a collections budget of over $15 million, the Library offers extensive collections in all formats and robust services to connect users with those collections and build their related research skills. The Library’s mission and strategic plan can be viewed at:
http://stories.lib.berkeley.edu/strategicplan/.

The Library’s Social Sciences Division consists of four subject libraries – Anthropology, Business, Environmental Design, and Social Research – and the collections and services located in Doe Library/Gardner MAIN Stacks. Collectively, the staff – 12 librarians, 12 library staff, and over 50 student library employees – support the research, teaching, and study needs of students and faculty in twelve social science departments within the College of Letters & Science, six professional schools, three International and Area Studies programs, and an array of Organized Research Units.

Sociology is one of the largest and most diverse undergraduate majors at Berkeley, with a strong focus on research and a deep engagement with critical theory. Demography, one of the quintessential quantitative social sciences, is highly interdisciplinary with particularly strong connections to Sociology, Public Policy, Economics, Public Health and Data Sciences.

The Sociology/Anthropology Department of Ohio Wesleyan University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Cultural Anthropology beginning in August, 2019.

We are looking for candidates with a strong commitment to both teaching and research in an undergraduate liberal arts environment. We are especially interested in candidates who are enthusiastic to teach a broad range of undergraduate courses, mentor students, participate in program development and can contribute to creating an engaged, pluralistic and just campus community. The teaching load is 3/3 (3 courses in each of the fall and spring semesters)

Yale University, Department of Anthropology anticipates making a tenure-track appointment in anthropological genetics at the starting assistant professor level, beginning on July 1, 2019.

Priority will be given to candidates with demonstrated research and teaching interests in genetic approaches to understanding the evolution of human and/or nonhuman primates.  Appropriate fields include, but are not restricted to: molecular ecology and landscape genetics of nonhuman primates; genomic variation, including that associated with disease risk; the use of methods in genomics, bioinformatics, and computational biology to address questions about human and nonhuman primate evolution; epigenetics and the genotype-phenotype linkage in human and nonhuman primates; and the reconstruction of population histories, dispersal patterns, and modern human origins.  Candidates who combine laboratory and field based research are preferred.  Yale University is an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women, members of underrepresented minority groups, protected veterans, and persons with disabilities are particularly welcomed.

Applications should be received by October 1, 2018 and should include a curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, and names and contact information of three references. Letters of recommendation or copies of publications are not required at this stage. Review of applications will begin September 15, 2018.

The Washington State Office of Civil Legal Aid (OCLA) is an independent judicial branch agency that manages and oversees legislative and other public investments in the system that provides legal aid services to low-income people in Washington state. OCLA seeks to engage a qualified undergraduate or graduate student to help update the Client Demographics/Client Service Delivery Matrix used to plan and monitor the deployment of legal aid staff and pro bono capacity throughout Washington State. The work involves updating census-based information to reflect the most recent information from the 1-YR 2016 American Community Survey on a county-by-county and regional basis. This project offers the student a hands-on opportunity to gain familiarity with American Fact Finder and other US Census tools, find and select census data and see how such data is used to ensure equity of geographic access to civil legal aid services for low-income people in Washington State. Target Completion Date: November 15, 2018.  OCLA will pay $40/hr. for work performed on this project up to a maximum of $800 (20 hours).

Interested students should forward a letter of interest and statement of qualifications to:  jim.bamberger@ocla.wa.gov

Join the Center for Migration Studies for a webinar to discuss the report, “The US Refugee Resettlement Program – A Return to First Principles: How Refugees Help to Define, Strengthen, and Revitalize the United States,” commissioned by Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Relief Services, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Migration and Refugee Services. The report examines the achievements and contributions made by refugees resettled in the United States and how refugees integrate successfully into US society. Using findings from the report, speakers will also discuss ways to influence the administration and Congress to support the US Refugee Program and return it to a more robust level of refugee admissions.

Speakers include:

Donald Kerwin, Executive Director, Center for Migration Studies
Carmen Maquilon, Director, Catholic Charities Immigrant Services, Diocese of Rockville Centre
Kevin Appleby, Senior Director of International Migration Policy, Center for Migration Studies
Registration is free. To register, visit http://bit.ly/2Nxrf2y. Information on how to join the call will be provided to registered participants.

The Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago seeks to hire an outstanding candidate for a postdoctoral research project with support from the National Science Foundation that uses large-scale data analysis and online team experiments to explore how to design teams for innovation and success. The project, titled “Understanding Team Success and Failure” was partially inspired by insight from our own recent work studying more than 50 million teams in science and technology that illustrated how smaller teams are much more likely than larger ones to produce work that disrupts the frontier. The project is also motivated by the realization that the vast majority of research on teams exhibits success bias, where data on failed teams remains under-recorded or censored. This project will involves a two-stage research program to understand how successful teams of different sizes and shapes “think differently” and can be designed to accelerate scientific, technological and creative discovery, invention and development.

Postdoctoral candidates will design and conduct independent research, in collaboration with UChicago Professor and Knowledge Lab Director James Evans, and Dashun Wang, a network scientist and physicist from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Candidates much have substantial computational and data science background and a Ph.D. in Sociology, Economics, Psychology or a related Social/Behavioral Science, Physics, Applied Math, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, and a strong publishing background.

Specifically, the successful candidate will be responsible for assembling data, constructing features and evaluating success and failure outcomes for millions R&D teams over 100 years in terms of team size, network structure, role composition and experience. Second, insights developed from this investigation will enable the candidate, in collaboration with Evans, Wang and the broader team, to collaborate on the launch of large-scale online team experiments to isolate the causal mechanisms driving team success and failure. We will publish the results of analyses and experiments and make recommendations for policy to design teams optimized for specific purposes, such as advancing science and technology. Candidates must have experience with statistical models, inference, and knowledge of experimental design. Experience with Bayesian inference and machine learning a strong plus. Candidates should also have extensive experience (2 or more years) with scientific computing in Python. Positions could begin anytime within the coming year, and as early as September 2018. Competitive salary & benefits.