Cornell University’s Department of Policy Analysis and Management (PAM) in the College of Human Ecology (CHE) invites applications for a dynamic, visionary leader to serve as Chair. The Department consists of 29 tenure track faculty spanning multiple disciplines with strong depth in economics, sociology, and demography. The Department offers a wide range of programs at all degree levels, and the Chair position presents an opportunity for a scholar to play a key role in supporting and elevating the social sciences and public policy in CHE and Cornell University more broadly. PAM serves as a hub for teaching in public policy, currently offering a large undergraduate major in Policy Analysis and Management, a Masters in Health Administration (the Sloan Program), and a PhD in Policy Analysis and Management. PAM is launching a new undergraduate major in Health Care and Policy and contributes to teaching in the professional MPA degree offered by the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA). The Department has strong ties with schools and departments across Cornell, and faculty lend their expertise to several graduate fields, including Economics, Sociology, Public Affairs, Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), and Demography. The Department also has close connections with and provides leadership to multidisciplinary centers and institutes across campus, with PAM faculty leadingand playing significant roles in the Cornell Population Center, the Institute for Social Sciences, the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR), and CIPA.

PAM faculty are exceptional in their research productivity. According to Academic Analytics, the faculty in PAM ranked 5th in overall productivity among the 79 public policy programs included in the analysis. PAM’s annual operating budget for 2017-2018 was $9.6 million, including 77 percent from CHE and 23 percent from grants, contracts, federal appropriations, restricted gifts, and endowment income.

The next Chairperson will be an internationally known scholar with the ability to be strategic and visionary about PAM’s future opportunities, who can build on the positive trajectory that PAM has established since its inception twenty years ago. The candidate will need a scholarly record commensurate with tenure at the full professor level and the ability to balance administration, research, teaching, and public engagement. The primary responsibilities of the Chair include providing leadership and oversight of the department’s academic programs and budgets, and working closely with the department’s administrative manager to ensure a workplace that is supportive of faculty, staff, and students. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the ability to lead in a climate of collaboration, transparency, and shared governance. The Chair also plays a key role in campus-wide initiatives related to public policy and the social sciences. The Department Chair reports to the Dean of CHE.

Massey University is New Zealand’s defining university. Sociology is a key social science programme within the School of People, Environment and Planning, which has a presence on the Manawatu and Albany campuses.

The appointee will possess a relevant doctorate and will have relevant research and teaching expertise in Sociology. In particular, the appointee will have expertise in general sociological theory and the sociology of colonisation/decolonisation.

The appointee will primarily develop and teach undergraduate students. Teaching will primarily be conducted on the Manawatu campus, and there is an expectation that the successful candidate will contribute to distance teaching.

The successful applicant will primarily contribute to the development of the Sociology programme’s undergraduate offerings, to its research and publication profile, and to collegial relations within the programme and the School more broadly.

The Urban Studies Program at Barnard College, Columbia University invites applications for a tenure track assistant or advanced assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Sociology Department beginning in fall 2019. We seek an urban sociologist with a focus on the United States or the US in global context. Preferred specializations include race, ethnicity, migration, and/or space. Candidates must have a PhD in Sociology or related discipline by the start date, should have a promising research agenda and record of scholarship, and a demonstrated commitment to undergraduate teaching. Responsibilities include teaching courses in urban sociology, research methods and related fields; an active research agenda; student advising; and faculty service.
Applicants should include a cover letter describing research and teaching interests, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and names and email addresses of three academic references who will be asked to upload their letters when the application is complete. We also encourage candidates to include a brief statement detailing their past experiences with, or future plans for, advancing diversity, equity and inclusion through their research, teaching and/or service. Applications should be submitted to http://careers.barnard.edu/postings/3614. For questions about the position, please contact Gergely Baics, co-director, at gbaics@barnard.edu.
Review of applications will begin on October 1 and continue until the position is filled.
Barnard College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively committed to creating a diverse and inclusive community. We especially encourage women and candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.

The Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, “Social Norms: Emergence, Persistence, and Effects,” to be held April 23-25, 2019, at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS).

Objectives: Human social behavior is controlled by many interacting factors including material cost-benefit considerations, genetically-informed social instincts, personality, and culturally transmitted norms, values, and institutions. A social norm is a behavior that one is expected to follow and expects others to follow in a given social situation. Understanding the emergence, persistence, and effects of social norms is crucial for developing better policies affecting the life of the society as a whole and of its individual members. This workshop brings together active scholars interested in various aspect of social norms in an attempt to stimulate new synergies, insights, and collaborations. We envision this meeting as a truly transdisciplinary gathering of researchers from diverse disciplines including sociology, anthropology, psychology, economics, evolutionary biology, cultural evolution, neurobiology, political science, history, and experts on extremism, marketing, communications, as well as policy scholars and practitioners. Full details at http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_socialnorms

Location: The Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity at NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Co-Organizers: Michele Gelfand (Psychology. Univ. of Maryland); Nathan Nunn (Economics, Harvard Univ.);  Sergey Gavrilets (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, Univ. of Tennessee)

Invited Participants: Jeannie Annan, International Rescue Committee; Robert Boyd, Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State Univ.; Colin Camerer, Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology; Damon Centola, Annenberg School for Communication, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Jean Ensminger, Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology; Ernst Fehr, UBS International Center of Economics in Society, Univ. of Zurich; Jeremy Ginges, Psychology, New School of Social Research; Joseph Henrich, Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Univ.; Karla Hoff*, Development Research Group, The World Bank; Shinobu Kitayama, Culture & Cognition Program, Univ. of Michigan; Maria Lapinski, Communication, Michigan State Univ.; Vera Mironova, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Karine Nyborg*, Economics, Univ. of Oslo; Elizabeth Paluck, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton Univ.; Alan Sanfey, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud Univ.; Agnis Stibe, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arne Traulsen, Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
*Not yet confirmed

For more information about the workshop and a link to the online application form, go to http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_socialnorms

Participation in NIMBioS workshops is by application only. Individuals with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged to apply, and successful applicants will be notified within several weeks after the application deadline. If needed, financial support for travel, meals, and lodging is available for workshop attendees.

Application deadline: December 1, 2018

Celebrating 10 years! The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) will host the tenth annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology on Oct. 27-28, 2018, at the Univ. of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, TN.

The conference provides opportunities for undergraduates to present their research at the interface of biology and mathematics. Student talks and posters will be featured as well as a plenary speaker, a panel on career opportunities, a graduate school showcase, and other networking opportunities. Faculty and students are invited to attend, as well as high school teachers.

A limited amount of support is available to cover the cost of registration, lodging and travel – deadline is September 10 to request funding. Conference registration deadline is October 5, 2018.

If you have or plan to request funding, do not register for the conference until you have been contacted by NIMBioS about the status of your funding request. For more information, go to http://www.nimbios.org/education/undergrad_conf2018

The Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of Data Science for Social Equity, to begin in fall 2018. We seek candidates who specialize in spatial data science, including (but not limited to) big data, spatial data visualization, spatial cyberinfrastructure, and/or geospatial technologies, and who advance research that makes positive impacts toward resolving urgent societal challenges.

Specifically, we seek scholars who harness data-driven science to analyze and advance social equity, apply research results to generate tangible products, applications, and/or other outcomes that address grand societal challenges, such as accessibility, health and wellbeing, food security, technology access and the digital divide, environmental problems, or other social and spatial disparities.

We are a diverse and growing department with strengths in biophysical geography, human geography, environmental studies, and spatial data science. Successful candidates will join the Spatial Computation, Cognition, and Complexity (S3C) Lab, and will develop a collaborative research program with faculty from the S3C Lab, Geography, and/or other units on campus. Scholars will recruit, teach, and mentor students in the new Spatial Data Science and Technology undergraduate major and Geography undergraduate and graduate majors.

The Department of Geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of human geography beginning September 2019. We seek a scholar who shows exceptional promise as an intellectual leader in the field of political ecology emphasizing quantitative or mixed methods with a focus on natural resources. A strong candidate will have disciplinary overlap in the areas of urban geography, political geography, or both, and regional expertise in Sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. However, applicants with expertise in any sub-discipline of human geography are invited to apply.

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks to hire a scholar at the Assistant Professor level for Fall 2019 with specialization in the study of language and culture in relation to medicine, illness and health.  The Department is seeking a linguistic/cultural anthropologist whose qualifications include a broad range of experience in research and teaching to complement our growing program in medical anthropology and global health.  Additional qualification of the successful candidate will include evidence of experience in one or more of the following areas:  the analysis of linguistic interaction and discourse in the construction of illness narratives and diagnosis, healer-patient interaction, the sociocultural and communicative aspects of pain, suffering, and care; language and power; the intersection of health disparities and racio-linguistic ideologies; and the role of language as it impacts access to care in the globalizing health care industry.  In addition to these areas of specialization, the ideal candidate will value and encourage research across the subdisciplines of anthropology and show evidence of success in sponsored research and publications. PhD in Anthropology or closely related field strongly preferred at time of appointment.