Murray State University is seeking a nine-month, tenure track assistant professor of community health to teach in one of three program tracks: healthcare administration, health education and promotion, and health informatics administration. Candidates must have a doctorate in community health, public health, healthcare administration, hospital administration, public administration, or a closely related discipline. Candidates who are ABD will be considered, but the position requires completion of all doctoral requirements by August 1st, 2017. Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills, a commitment to high-quality classroom instruction, service, and scholarly activity. International applicants must have appropriate documentation to hold a full-time employment position in the US. The preferred candidate would have evidence of teaching at the college level; experience teaching courses in topics such as revenue cycle, health policy, medical ethics, health care planning, health care quality management, health care data structures and management; program leadership in healthcare administration; understanding of AUPHA certification requirements and experience pursuing accreditation; and participation in research or creative scholarly activities. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses and advising; curriculum development; course development; assisting in assessment and accreditation; recruiting; supervising interns; writing grant proposals; and engaging in service at the departmental, collegiate, university, community, and professional levels.
In honor of Veterans Day, there will be no CSDE Seminar this week.
The series will resume next Friday, 11/18, with a special panel on Big Data. Join us for a provocative discussion among leading demographers about the opportunities and pitfalls of big data for improving population health knowledge.
Panelists:
Patrick Gerland, Chief of Mortality Section, Population Division, United Nations
Thomas LeGrand, Department of Demography, University of Montreal
Adrian Raftery, Department of Sociology & Department of Statistics, UW
Emilio Zagheni, Department of Sociology & eSciences Institute, UW
Betty Bekemeier Publishes Research on Local Disease-Prevention Efforts
Betty Bekemeier, CSDE Affiliate and UW Assistant Professor of Psychosocial & Community Health, and Athena Pantazis, a CSDE Certificate Recipient, have published new findings from their health care research. The project examined the shifting battle against preventable disease at the local vaccination level. While the study was constrained by limited data, it both underscored the importance of maintaining accurate records in the field of public health and urged those involved to stay abreast of emerging opportunities for disease prevention. The study is available below.
James Gregory on Seattle’s Deep-Rooted Segregation
James Gregory, CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor of History, was recently featured on seattlepi.com in a discussion of the city’s segregated foundations. Gregory explains how restrictive covenants prevented minorities from living in certain areas of Seattle. While the practice was outlawed in 1948, its impact on Seattle’s demography and layout persists today. Check out the full article for more on the covenants and the recovered loan maps that further divided the city along racial boundaries.
VICE Talks Socioeconomic Targeting with Alexes Harris
CSDE Affiliate and UW Associate Professor of Sociology Alexes Harris recently shared her expertise on socioeconomic policing practices with VICE. Harris’s work, compiled in A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor, outlines the troubling practice of debtors’ prisons and the racial divides they can exacerbate. Coverage in Harris’s research and VICE’s editorials helps shed light on an often-overlooked snare in America’s criminal justice system. Read the full article below for more on the subject.
MAGH Lecture: Pregnant citizens, failing states, and the trouble with citizenship
In Malawi, where maternal death has been politically and socially contentious for many years, expert narratives about maternal mortality proliferate. Many kinds of uncertainties contribute to these divergent narratives. An examination of these stories, and the struggles over legitimacy in which they are wielded, suggests the limits of medical anthropologists’ theoretical constructs of citizenship–biological, biomedical, or therapeutic.
Claire Wendland is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on the globalization of biomedicine, reproduction, and sexuality in Africa. In 2010, Claire Wendland published A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School (University of Chicago Press). Tracing the experiences of medical students learning to become doctors in Malawi, Claire Wendland argues that their responses challenge longstanding assumptions about biomedicine and African healing. In her current work, Claire Wendland analyzes linkages between reproduction, childbirth, and death in southeast Africa. Her work has been published in a wide range of journals, such as Current Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and American Anthropologist.
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the annual competition for the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship. Mrs. Liebmann set up a trust fund to provide funding for graduate students of “outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement and distinction in their chosen fields of study.” The Graduate School will be able to send only three nominees to the national competition and is conducting an internal selection competition.
AWARD: The fellowship provides an $18,000 stipend plus tuition and may be renewed for a total of three years of funding.
FIELDS: Social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and professional (such as law, medicine, engineering, architecture). The selection committee has a strong preference for supporting scholarly endeavors (not practice degrees).
ELIGIBILITY:
- Must be in an doctoral or professional degree program at the UW
- Must be U.S. citizen
- Must have outstanding undergraduate record
- Must show financial need
- Must have received baccalaureate degree
- Must conduct studies and research in the United States
Please note that financial need requirement will be determined based on the FAFSA, which must be on file with the UW. They will only consider students showing in the UW Financial Aid system with need (any level). If you have not filed a FAFSA, please do so immediately if you wish to apply for this fellowship. Information is here: http://www.washington.edu/students/osfa/. If the UW determines you don’t have need based on an initial review of the FAFSA, you can either 1) determine whether you can refigure your need requirement, which is definitely possibly through the Office of Student Financial Aid’s process, or 2) decide not to apply for the Liebmann fellowship.
Call for Papers: AAG 2017
The American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, is a conference for geographers, GIS specialists, environmental scientists, and other leaders and focuses on the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. The meeting will be held from April 5-9, 2017, and will feature over 6,600 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers. Visit the link below for 2017’s featured themes and instructions on how you can submit your paper for consideration.
Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology
The Department of Sociology seeks to fill a vacancy at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. This is a tenure track position set to start in Fall 2017. Performs teaching, research and guidance duties in area(s) of expertise. Shares responsibility for committee and department assignments including administrative, supervisory, and other functions.
We are seeking candidates with research experience in the area now often called “Big Data,” “Data Analytics,” or “Data Science.” The preferred candidate is someone who has applied quantitative and statistical techniques, using large datasets, to important sociological issues. Familiarity with emerging techniques and methods from computer science that enable these sorts of analyses is most desirable. These areas of research are still being defined, and we are looking for a candidate who can, in addition to producing cutting edge research, help us to move our curriculum forward at both the MA and BA level to incorporate an emphasis on big data analytics.
Assistant Professor in Geography
The successful candidate is expected to establish a vigorous, externally funded research program that expands the scope of our departmental capability while complementing and integrating with our existing strengths. S/he will advise students at undergraduate, MS, and PhD levels. Teaching expectations include an average of three classes per academic year, including an undergraduate class in human-environment interactions as well as other introductory and upper-division courses. Service to the department, university, and community is also expected.
Minimum Qualifications
• PhD in Geography or related field at time of appointment
• Research specialization in human-environment interactions
• Ability to teach courses in human-environment interactions
• Demonstrated ability to publish original research in peer-reviewed journals
• Demonstrated ability or potential to establish an independent, externally funded research program
• Demonstrated ability or potential for high-quality teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students