The U.S. Census Bureau is seeking employees with a wide range of skills to help carry out and then evaluate the results of the 2020 Decennial Census, and to serve in other critical positions. The census is the foremost source of information on the U.S. population and is the basis for political representation and for how tax dollars are allocated over the following decade. Along with a broad range of social and economic surveys, the Census Bureau also produces the nation’s official population estimates and is responsible for international work around the globe.

 We are looking for qualified U.S. citizens with backgrounds in demography, sociology, mathematics, statistics, or related fields. Experience with demographic analysis, population estimates and projections, survey research, and quantitative data analysis of large data sets is a plus. Candidates should have good communication skills and be able to work as part of a team. 

 Successful candidates may be hired at the GS 7 to GS 14 levels. See opm.gov for salary information for the Washington, D.C. metro area. The jobs are located in Suitland, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. that is accessible by mass transit (the use of which is subsidized for Census employees).

Those interested in the Decennial Census and other positions should apply at USAJobs.gov. Several job postings are planned for entry-level and more advanced positions. Please create a saved search in USAJobs on the word “Census” to receive an email the day following the announcement’s appearance.  The following job postings are currently available and can be applied to now.

 Statisticians

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https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517983700

 https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517983500

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https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517984700

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517989500

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517985100

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517989600

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https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517984100

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517984400

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517990200

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517990300

 Geographers

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https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517992100

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517992400

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https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517991300

The Department of Commerce and the U.S. Census Bureau are Equal Opportunity Employers.  Contact David Zaslow (David.C.Zaslow@census.gov) for further information.  Please share this announcement with other interested individuals and groups.

Overview

Quality, affordable, and well-connected housing is an essential component of strong and healthy communities. Housing markets are constantly evolving and there is an increasing collaboration among public, private and nonprofit actors in addressing various housing issues. The Graduate Certificate in Housing Studies (GCHS) offers graduate students an opportunity to learn the fundamental concepts and tools essential to understanding housing production and consumption at a regional, national and global level.

Who should apply?

UW graduate students interested in housing, especially those majoring in: architecture, planning, construction management, real estate, public policy, public health, sociology, geography, business, and law. Students are required to apply and be admitted before taking more than two of the required courses to receive the certificate.

Applicants: Pre-proposal doctoral students in the social sciences from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations who are studying topics related to poverty or inequality in the United States.

View/download PDF version of the call

About Workshop

Howard University’s Center on Race and Wealth (CRW) and the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison seek applications for the third annual Dissertation Proposal Workshop. This week-long workshop, held at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is aimed at pre-proposal doctoral students in the social sciences from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations who are studying topics related to poverty or inequality in the United States. The workshop is designed to help provide students the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to prepare a dissertation proposal. Funding is provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as part of IRP’s National Poverty Research Center award.

The workshop will be led by faculty from Howard University, IRP, and other institutions. Students will set and accomplish daily goals, participate in group lectures, work individually and in small groups, and consult with workshop mentors. Topics will include:

• Strategies for formulating a solid research question and hypotheses
• Strategies for determining the appropriate research methodology and securing data
• Goal setting and time management strategies
• Peer and mentor feedback on draft proposals

About CRW

The Center on Race and Wealth seeks to enrich the dialogue, research, and policy formation with regard to asset building, wealth accumulation, and racial wealth disparities. CRW is a member of the U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Centers (CPC) and hosts the Dissertation Workshop as part of this collaboration. The Center’s location in an economics department and in Washington, DC uniquely positions it to bring a wide array of economists and public policy advocates into the debate on poverty and inequality.

About IRP

IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality and the impact of related policies and programs. As the National Poverty Research Center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, IRP coordinates the U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Centers (CPC) in an integrated set of activities with the ultimate goal of improving the effectiveness of public policies to reduce poverty and inequality and their impacts on the well-being of the American people.

Terms

Eligibility

Applicants must be pre-dissertation proposal doctoral students studying at U.S. universities from at least one of the following underrepresented racial or ethnic populations: (a) African American or Black; (b) American Indian or Alaskan Native; (c) Hispanic/Latino; (d) Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laotian, or Hmong; and (e) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. Preference will be given to those who are also of the first generation in their family to achieve a college degree.

Funding

Funding for travel, meals, and lodging at Howard University (for students residing outside of the DC area) will be provided to 12 successful applicants.

Application Instructions

Submit application via the Online Application Form.

Have your Primary Advisor complete a letter of recommendation via the online Submission Form.

Applicants are responsible for providing the link above to their primary advisor and asking their advisor to directly fill out the recommendation form by the application deadline.

Both the applicant and the advisor will receive a confirmation e-mail when the recommendation is completed. Note that the recommendation can be completed before or after the application is submitted but both the application and the recommendation must be completed by the deadline for the application to be complete.

Contact

Workshop-related questions should be directed to:
Dr. Janet Griffin-Graves | jrgriffin-graves@howard.edu

Process-related questions should be directed to:
Vee Yeo | Vyeo@wisc.edu

Timeline

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On Wednesday 5 December 2018, the Medical Anthropology and Global Health Seminar Series is pleased to present its last lecture this Fall quarter 

“Institutional Flexibility and Dementia Care in Urban China”

Lillian Prueher – PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology

As the government and medical marketplace respond to China’s aging population, the role of professional, non-family based elder care institutions is fluctuating. While it was once seen as a last resort, now institutional care holds many potentialities – a form of care for purchase; an essential tool for the State to use in meeting citizen needs; a space brimming with both the promises of biomedical intervention and uncertainties about whether or not such promises will ever be realized. In this talk, I draw on nearly 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in urban China between 2015 and 2018. I discuss a private dementia care unit and how “good,” or morally acceptable, care came to be understood and enacted in different ways for different residents living there. I argue that this institutional flexibility stemmed from staff members’ attempts to balance residents’ physical and cognitive needs with their family members’ disparate financial resources and levels of involvement in daily life within the facility. I consider implications this need for flexibility has for understanding the intersection between decision-making authority and money in this setting.

Lillian Prueher is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and an MPH student in her final year in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. She received an MA in Anthropology in 2017 from the University of Washington, and she is currently in the process of writing her MPH thesis and her anthropology dissertation. Her research focuses on understanding conceptions and practices of “good care” in non-family-based dementia care settings in mainland China and in Denmark.

For more information about the MAGH lecture series, contact Marieke van Eijk (mariev2@uw.edu)

Emily Gade

Postdoctoral Fellow (eScience Institute) and Acting Assistant Professor (Political Science), University of Washington, http://emilykgade.com/

What factors delimit terrorist attacks from other violent incidents? We develop an original news corpus of U.S. mass shooting events to examine the factors most commonly associated with terrorist-designated incidents. We first conduct a statistical analysis to identify the factors that shape whether a mass shooter’s attack is designated as terrorism. Next, we verify and contextualize this by qualitatively examining media coverage of a sample of the sixteen mass shootings designated as terrorism (Global Terrorism Database). Third, we use unsupervised machine learning to discover the archetypal portrayals media ascribe to mass-shooter perpetrators. This multi-method analysis – still in its early phases – provides preliminary evidence that perpetrators with certain racialized demographic characteristics (based on their race, religion, or immigrant status) are more likely than white offenders to be designated as terrorists. In addition, we find that media sources disproportionately frame white perpetrators sympathetically while ascribing racialized perpetrators more nefarious, villainous characteristics. We close with policy and social implications of these findings for marginalized communities and discuss avenues for future research.