The Department of Sociology and Criminology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with specialties in migration, sociology of culture, or environmental sociology to begin in August 2019. There is a preference for candidates who take a comparative approach and whose work aligns with the department’s focus on inequality.
Villanova is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian order. Diversity and inclusion have been and will continue to be an integral component of Villanova University’s mission. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and seeks candidates who understand, respect and can contribute to the University’s mission and values, especially in regard to community service and social justice.
The University of Minnesota is seeking a post-doctoral associate, in a position jointly sponsored by the Minnesota Population Center (MPC, www.pop.umn.edu) and the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health in the School of Public Health. This position is on an exciting new social epidemiology research project examining how housing policy and neighborhood context influence the health and social mobility of lowincome adolescents and their parents. The ideal candidate will have background in social determinants of health and in applying sophisticated quantitative analysis to investigate the relationships among social policy, neighborhoods, socioeconomic status, and/or health. The candidate will report to project director Dr. Theresa Osypuk, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health, and MPC faculty member.
Housed in the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation (ISRDI), the MPC is a hub for interdisciplinary population research. Its members include more than 100 faculty, research staff, and student affiliates from two dozen academic units across ten colleges in the University. Established in 2000 and funded by the National Institutes of Health, MPC cultivates innovative population research by providing a stimulating environment for interdisciplinary exchange, a vibrant and growing population training program, and generous research support services designed to develop and nurture promising areas of new population research. Research and training at the MPC are characterized by a focus on four core substantive areas: population health and health systems; population mobility and spatial demography; reproductive and sexual health; and work, family, and time. Affiliates of the MPC benefit from co-location with the renowned IPUMS data infrastructure projects, the University of Minnesota’s Life Course Center, and the Minnesota Research Data Center (which is part of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center Network).
The School of Public Health is consistently ranked in the top 10 of all Schools of Public Health in the United States, and is among the very highest in research productivity. The Division of Epidemiology and Community Health (http://www.sph.umn.edu/epi) provides a rich and collaborative environment for the investigation of the etiology, distribution, and prevention of disease integrating both clinical/biological and social/behavioral perspectives and methods. The Division offers graduate training programs leading to the MPH, MS and PhD degrees, and has active pre- and post-doctoral training. It has 45 primary faculty members who bring in over $30 million annually in sponsored research grants, and an additional 80 adjunct faculty. Major assets of the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health include access to several ongoing community-based intervention studies and large prospective cohort studies.
The Department of Geography at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time lecturer conceptually and empirically engaged with GIS, geovisualization and/or digital geographies. The Department seeks a dynamic, innovative instructor who will complement and extend the department’s existing strengths. The successful candidate will teach GIS and geovisualization at the introductory and advanced levels, with additional courses in spatial databases, web cartographies, spatial computation, and/or coding for geospatial applications. This is a nine-month position with the possibility of renewal. The position is anticipated to begin on September 16, 2018. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent in geography or a related field, with technical expertise in areas such as web cartography, spatial computation or geovisualization. The candidate will teach two undergraduate courses in fall, winter and spring quarters for a total of six courses during the academic year. All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching and service.
The University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track position in spatial data science and geographic information science at the rank of Assistant Professor. The department seeks applicants with core research interests in, but not limited to, inferential and computational analysis of spatial data, data mining, spatial analytics, machine learning, geographic information retrieval, and geovisualization in support of any substantive domain in Geography or allied disciplines that rely on spatiotemporal data. The Department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service as appropriate to the position. Applications completed by September 23, 2018 will receive priority consideration. For full details about the recruitment and to apply, visit https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01239.
Candidates should have a Ph.D. in environmental studies, environmental policy, or a related interdisciplinary environmental field as well as a strong commitment to undergraduate education. Teaching responsibilities will include five courses taught at the intermediate- and advanced-levels. The candidate will teach courses in international and U.S. environmental policy and electives in his or her area of specialty. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to, international policy dimensions of food, forest resources, energy and climate, justice, or environmental negotiation. All courses will serve majors and minors in the Environmental Studies Program, a strategic priority of the College. For more information about the Environmental Studies Program, faculty, and courses please see the Environmental Studies Program website at http://www.colby.edu/environ
Application Instructions
Interested candidates should submit the following materials electronically to http://apply.interfolio.com/50869: a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching and research interests, reprints of selected publications, graduate transcripts, and three letters of reference. Application review will begin May 29th and will continue until the position is filled. Inquiries may be directed to environmentalpolicy@colby.edu
Five Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities are available for the 2019–2020 academic year on the general theme of KINSHIP. Open to untenured junior scholars holding a PhD (no more than eight years out of doctorate, with degree between 12/2010 and 12/2018). Research proposals from all humanistic disciplines and allied areas (e.g., anthropology, history of science) are eligible, except for educational curriculum-building and the performing arts (scholars of performing arts are eligible). Fellows teach one undergraduate course during the year in addition to conducting their research and must be in residence during fellowship year: August 1–May 31. Stipend: $56,225 plus single-coverage health insurance and a $3000 research fund.
Applications are accepted via secure online webform only. Please do NOT email your application, c.v., or questions about whether proposed topic is viable. The committee cannot comment on the appropriateness of proposals in advance, and those submissions and questions will not be considered. A careful reading of the topic description and the application form itself generally answers most questions. Please also note that if you will defend your graduate thesis any time after December 2018, you are NOT eligible to apply, and no exceptions will be considered.
The Department of Geology and Geography invites nominations and applications for two Regular, Limited-Term Instructor of Geology positions. Both positions are located on the Statesboro campus.
In January 2017, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted to consolidate Armstrong State University and Georgia Southern University. The new, 27,000-student university will be named Georgia Southern University with campuses in Savannah, Statesboro, and Hinesville. The expected timeline for the first entering class will be fall 2018.
Within this setting, the Department offers undergraduate degree programs in both geology and geography and a graduate degree in Applied Geography. In addition, the minor in GIS attracts students from a range of disciplines.
Position Description. Reporting to the Department Chair, the limited-term instructor of Geology position will teach mostly introductory laboratory sections of Physical and Environmental Geology along with a possible lecture section of Physical or Environmental Geology. The limited-term instructor will also have some service duties in the department, which may include committee assignments, attendance at open house and recruiting events. All limited-term positions are non-tenure track, academic (9/10 month) year appointments. Appointments are for one year only, although there is the possibility of reappointment should funding permit and based upon satisfactory performance. (All reappointments are made on a one year basis.) The salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
It’s been nearly a year since Charleena Lyles was shot and killed by Seattle police officers. Last week, members of Lyles’ family joined policy experts in a panel discussion to explore community and legal strategies to stop police violence.
Prior to the event, KUOW interviewed Affiliate Amy Hagopian, Associate Professor of Health Services and Global Health, to discuss how opening dialogue between victims and policy makers can frame new ways to prevent crises: “I think it’s an interesting thing to bring together victims with policy people… So it’s not just academics who are thinking about this in a cerebral way, but actual people who have been hurt by police.”
Police violence, Hogopian adds, is a problem that could benefit from a public health approach. “We’d like to see more research on this. We’d like to see preventive activities take place. We’d love to see new capacity to respond to mental health crises other than to deploy officers with guns.”
You can listen to the full interview below.
How does dehumanizing rhetoric lay the groundwork for violent action? A new story in The Washington Post explores this question, drawing on research from Affiliate René Flores, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Flores’ 2018 article, “Can Elites Shape Public Attitudes Toward Immigrants?: Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Election,” examines how political elites influence public perceptions of social groups they praise or denounce.
To do this, Flores analyzed the attitudinal effects of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign announcement speech, in which he referred to Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and “criminals.” First, to provide causal estimates, Flores analyzed survey data using a counterfactual approach. Next, using a panel survey experiment, he corroborated the causal relationship yet found that the effects were short-lived. Flores notes that this outcome “explains why restrictionist politicians like Trump constantly prod natives to keep their messages’ effects from dissipating.”
As social media and messaging apps continue to become important communication tools in people’s everyday lives, they have also come to play important roles in how people prepare, respond to, and recover from disasters. For example, Facebook’s Safety Check and Community Help features make it easier for people impacted by a disaster to let loved ones know when they are safe, and request and offer help with neighbors, and Facebook’s Disaster Maps provide insights into evacuations and connectivity issues to humanitarian organizations responding to a crisis.
Facebook is supporting new and innovative research in the area of crisis informatics to make social media tools more useful to people responding to or impacted by a disaster. The research should explain how social media is currently used during a disaster, and it will unlock new tools and products to improve disaster response and recovery. No Facebook data will be provided to award recipients.
We are pleased to invite the academic community to respond to this call for research proposals on crisis informatics and the role of social media in disaster response and recovery. Research awardees will be expected to contribute insights and innovative solutions in this space, including but not limited to:
- Methods for assessing the validity, relevance and usefulness of crisis maps or other data products for disaster preparedness, response and recovery
- Topics and themes of social media posts that transcend individual regions, languages and disaster types
- Methods for identifying disaster relief needs and conditions on the ground from social media posts and civilian reporting
- Statistical models of movement, evacuation and long-term displacement due to natural disasters
- Quantitative and qualitative insights into how humanitarian response organizations make use of social media or crisis informatics datasets for disaster preparedness, response and recovery
- Novel techniques for visualization of social media crisis data
- Case studies in the use of social media crisis data by humanitarian organizations
- Data privacy in crisis informatics and social media crisis data
- Bias and fairness in social media crisis data and its impact on disaster response
Submitted projects do not need to be about Facebook, and no Facebook data will be provided to award recipients. Successful proposals will demonstrate innovative and compelling research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding and value of social media and social media data for disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
Representatives from each awarded project will be invited to a workshop with other participants in January 2019 to share preliminary results, and are expected to attend an evaluation meeting in May 2019. Travel costs to Menlo Park CA, USA should be included in the proposed budget. Award recipients will be listed on the Facebook Research website and will be encouraged to openly publish any findings from their work as well as make any code available as open source.
Three $50,000 USD gifts will be awarded.