Tenure-track position in Sociology, at the rank of assistant professor, with expertise in criminology, corrections, punishment, and/or crime. These topics may be stand-alone areas of inquiry, or they may be highlighted substantially in conversation with other areas of inquiry such as public health, demography, race and social inequalities. Qualified applicants will also have expertise in quantitative methods. Desirable candidates will also have a demonstrated desire to connect with local organizations for community-based research and/or teaching. Effective August 2020. Ph.D. required.
Writing a Teaching Statement (Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop for Posdocs & Grad Students, 8/21/2019)
Find out what a teaching statement can look like, how to develop one (even if you have never been a TA), review examples, and brainstorm with peers.
Call for Papers and Posters: Linking Policies and People: New Insights on Migration and Development (Bonn, Germany, 10/30-10/31/2019)
Numbers of international migrants are at a historic high. While people have always been on the move and the benefits of migration are internationally acknowledged, reaping these benefits through “safe, orderly and regular migration” (SDG 10.7) continues to be a challenge at international, national and local levels. Moreover, the numbers of forcibly displaced people have continued to climb since reporting started. Neighbouring countries, themselves oftentimes economically and socially unstable, have been hosting the largest bulk of the displaced populations – with local communities under particular stress.
This conference is devoted to understanding why people decide to move from their homes (with a particular focus on South-South migration), what effects migration has on the socio-economic development of low- and middle-income countries and how migration is governed in a multi-level policy environment.
Assistant Professor, Migration and Development
The ISS Strategic Plan 2019-24 pursues developing ISS further into a research-intensive university institute in The Hague, focussing on academic excellence and high societal relevance of its research and teaching. ISS considers engagement that is linking research and teaching to society, to be an important task of the university.
All ISS staff members participate in the Institute’s research programme ‘Global Development and Social Justice’. As part of its Research Strategy, the Institute currently pursues four multidisciplinary, cross-cutting research themes: environment and climate change; conflict and peace; social protection and inequality; and migration and diversity.
Consistent with our strategy and with an eye to current and future developments in the area of development studies, ISS is looking for two Assistant Professors in Migration and Development (tenure track).
Graduate Intern, Programming & Events
The HUB is seeking a graduate student for a paid HUB Programming and Events internship. Please spread the word and refer any candidates to apply by August 9 through Handshake. This is a great department to work for, and Adam is a great supervisor and mentor.
Global Alliance for Training in Health Equity Research (GATHER) T37 Training Grant
As a Fellow with the Global Alliance for Training in Health Equity Research (GATHER) at the Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH), you will be supported while conducting health equity research in the United States and around the world.
Fellows will partner with mentors (DSPH faculty and GATHER advisory committee members), receive intensive skills-based research training, and have an opportunity to travel to one of four research sites in Brazil, Kenya, Mexico and Burkina Faso.
Becoming a GATHER Fellow offers doctoral students and postdoctoral trainees a chance to advance their careers and develop expertise in global health equity issues, while joining the DSPH’s extensive international network of public health scholars across Latin America and Africa.
GATHER Fellowships include:
- Coverage of travel, housing and living expenses while at a global research site
- A stipend and mentorship throughout the 6-9 month fellowship
Amy Bailey to Join CSDE as a Visiting Scholar and Chair of the Seminar Series
We are thrilled to welcome CSDE Affiliate and Alumna Amy Bailey as a CSDE Visiting Scholar for the upcoming year! Amy earned her PhD and MA in Sociology at the University of Washington and is joining us from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology. Amy will be chairing the CSDE Seminar Series and is welcoming ideas and recommendations from the CSDE community (you can contact her here).
Bailey’s research examines race and inequality, with two key areas of focus. The first, which was the subject of her dissertation, examines the military, especially the interplay between individual and collective outcomes. This line of work examines a variety of questions, including the military’s effects on migration and population redistribution, the changing racialized dynamics between military employment and intergenerational mobility, and the links between community-level socioeconomic characteristics and military participation among young adults.
She is a 2015-16 Research Scholar at the Great Cities Institute, which supports her current project, “Transition to Adulthood for Working Class Youth: Institutions and Informal Practices in Local Communities.” This project conceptualizes joining the armed forces as one of many options available to young people, and seeks to understand how institutional and informal processes may contribute to local variation in social mobility regimes for working class youth.
Her second area of research focuses on historical patterns of racial violence in the American South, more commonly known as lynching. She is particularly interested in the characteristics of individuals who were targeted for victimization, and with Stew Tolnay has written a book, Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence, on the characteristics of lynch victims that was published in 2015 by the University of North Carolina Press. She currently holds a grant from the National Science Foundation to build a database using census records for individuals who were threatened with lynching or survived an attempted lynching.
Bailey’s prior work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, The American Sociological Review, Population Research and Policy Review, and Historical Methods. She is a member of the Social Science History Association’s Publications Committee, and serves on the American Sociological Association’s Peace, War, and Social Conflict section’s administrative council.
Bailey joined the UIC Department of Sociology as an assistant professor in the summer of 2013. She previously held positions as an NIH funded research fellow at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research, and on the faculty at Utah State University. She also holds a BA in Women’s Studies and Health from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Administrator
UPDATE: Position should post on USAJOBS in mid to late August.
The Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center (NWFSRDC) at UW is starting a search for an Administrator with a research background.
The NWFSRDC lab, located next to UW Seattle’s campus in the U District, provides a secure environment where qualified researchers conduct approved statistical research using restricted micro-level data collected by the Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and other federal agencies.
The NWFSRDC is part of the FSRDC network administered by the Center for Economic Studies at the US Census Bureau. Further details on the network, data available, and research conducted in FSRDCs can be found here: https://www.census.gov/ces/index.html . The NWFSRDC website has some local details: https://depts.washington.edu/nwfsrdc/
Primary responsibilities for this position include:
- a) Assisting researchers from many disciplines, including economics, geography, health services, epidemiology, sociology, demography, social work, urban planning, business, environmental science and data science in developing successful proposals and conducting research at the NWFSRDC;
- b) Overseeing daily operations of the NWFSRDC lab;
- c) Serving as a liaison between the Census and the NWFSRDC;
- d) Assisting the Executive Director in marketing the center to the research community at UW and beyond.
The NWFSRDC administrator will be a part-time (75%) U.S. Census Bureau employee who will receive federal benefits. The ideal candidate will have a M.A. in a social science field, which may include working toward a Ph.D., or a recent Ph.D. in a social science field, a background in statistical methods and strong organizational skills.
Pay will be at GS-11 or GS-12 Seattle rates (75%) depending on qualifications and experience.
This position has not been formally announced yet. Please email Mark Ellis, Executive Director of the NWFSRDC (ellism@uw.edu) if you are interested in the position or if you would like more information.
Call for Papers: Looking Backward, Looking Forward: African Demography in Historical Perspective (Nairobi, 4/2-4/3/2020)
Call for Papers:
International Seminar: Looking backward, looking forward: African demography in historical perspective
Nairobi, Kenya 2-3 April 2020
Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography and held at the British Institute in Eastern Africa.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 September 2019
Organizing Committee: Sarah Walters (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Martin Dribe (Lund University), Shane Doyle (University of Leeds), Stephen O. Wandera (Makerere University), Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University).
Please read the full announcement for this seminar.
We invite submissions on historical or long-term, interdisciplinary, perspectives on demographic change in Africa. The aims of the seminar are to review the state of the field of African population history, to consider the role of the past for understanding the present, and to facilitate partnerships and future comparative work on African historical demography.
There is a resurgence of interest in Africa’s demographic pasts. Evidence on past population trends is essential to respond to core questions in African history, such as the human cost of the slave trade; the impacts of colonialism on health, wellbeing and the family; the effects of post-colonial policies on households and livelihoods; long-term trends in mortality and migration; and the influence of religion, education and employment on intergenerational relations and the social organisation of reproduction. Improving the evidence on Africa’s past populations will illuminate how people have managed their resilience and reproduction over time, in the face of environmental, epidemiological, political and economic change.
Understanding the historical origins of African demographic regimes may also help to influence current and future population trends. This is important given Africa is projected to account for more than half of all global population growth by 2050, with implications for both demographic dividend and migration. In particular, contemporary demographers have called for interdisciplinary and historical approaches to improve understanding of the contexts of fertility transition in the region, including its stalls, reversals and exceptional age- and parity-specific dynamics, as well as the historical context of the AIDS pandemic. Papers which seek to situate current population trends in historical perspective are encouraged.
The seminar will showcase the growing availability of historical demographic micro-data through new digitisation projects. Alongside the substantive research papers, the seminar will include a data workshop in which scholars who have collected new datasets will have the opportunity to present their databases and to consider scope for future comparative work and collaborations. We will review the potential of new digital methods for widening historical micro-data collection in Africa and seek the experience of previous comparative demographic projects in achieving data harmonisation.
Online Submissions:
The IUSSP Panel on Historical Demography invites researchers to submit online by 30 September 2019 a short 200-word abstract AND an extended abstract (2 to 4 pages, including tables). To submit an abstract please fill out the online submission form: ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM.
If you would also like to contribute to the data workshop, please also send an email to sarah.walters@lshtm.ac.uk with a 200-word description of your dataset at the same time as your main submission.
The working language of the seminar is English: abstracts and final papers should be submitted and presented in English. If the paper is co-authored, please indicate the names of co-authors. Submission should be made by the author who will attend the seminar. We aim to publish suitable papers in a journal special issue or an edited volume.
Applicants will be notified whether their paper has been accepted by 15 October 2019. Authors of accepted papers must upload the full paper on the IUSSP website by 28 February 2020.
Funding is available to cover the cost of the seminar venue, airport transfers, accommodation and meals for speakers for two days. We are seeking further financial support for travel, but the outcome is uncertain, and participants should seek their own funding for flights, additional accommodation and other expenses. Priority will be given to African scholars, early career researchers and those from developing countries in awarding travel support.
For further information: Please contact Seminar Organizer Sarah Walters (sarah.walters@lshtm.ac.uk).
IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography
Chair: Martin Dribe (Lund University, Sweden)
Members: Lisa Dillon (Université de Montréal, Canada), Hao Dong (Peking University, China), J. David Hacker (University of Minnesota, USA), Lionel Kesztenbaum (Institut national d’études démographiques, INED, France), Ana Silvia Volpi Scott (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil) and Sarah Walters (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK).
Call for Papers: Second International Seminar on New and Emerging Family Forms around the World (Manila, 1/20-1/21/2020)
This panel brings together researchers from around the world to discuss theories and explanations for changes in family behaviours. The panel’s second workshop, in Manila, will focus on consequences of new family formation behaviours, for individuals, families, and society. We are interested in a range of living arrangements, including cohabitation, living-apart-together relationships, and repartnering, as well as same-sex partnerships, multi-generational families, and living alone. Studies should be underpinned by demographic data and analysis; however, we encourage novel explanations, cross-cultural comparisons, and theory-building.
We aim to have wide global representation as well as regional expertise. We are applying for funding to help pay for travel and accommodation, particularly for participants from low-income countries, but we will not know the outcome of our application for some time.
Some of the papers from this seminar and the previous seminar held in 2018 will be selected for publication in a special issue devoted to the topic.