Biological Anthropologists will be on campus and delivering talks over the coming weeks. The following are currently scheduled:

Tamar Carter: 13-14 Feb.
Melissa Liebert: 16-17 Feb.

Tamar E. Carter has a Ph.D. (2015) in Genetics and Genomics, from U FL, Gainesville. She also has an MPH (epidemiology concentration) from Gainesville. Dr. Carter is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UNC, Charlotte in Bioinfomatics and Genomics. Her research interests are in human and malaria parasite genetic diversity. Her dissertation research in Haiti was an investigation of genetic adaptations (red blood cell abnormalities) that confer resistance to malaria. She also investigated the way humans have shaped, through malaria control, the genetic diversity of malaria parasites. Her postdoctoral work has taken her research into Ethiopian populations, where the dynamics of malaria transmission are more complex. Dr. Carter’s research involves laboratory-based genetic analyses as well as statistical and data-intensive methods in genetics.

Melissa A. Liebert has a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology (2016) from the U. Oregon. She is now a postdoctoral scholar at the U. Oregon in the Anthropology department. Her research interests are stress and economic development in subsistence-based populations. Her dissertation research was a field and laboratory-based investigation of the effects of economic development on the health and well-being of Indigenous Shuar of Ecuador. Her work integrates not only field collection and laboratory analysis of stress biomarkers, but ethnographic data and demographic analysis. In addition to her work on the Shuar, she has been participating for over five years in the World Health Organization’s Study on global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE) as a database manager and statistical analyst.

For more information, contact Patricia Kramer.

The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington is now accepting applications for supplemental graduate fellowships for the 2017-2018 academic year. Any graduate student planning to be enrolled at the University of Washington for the 2017-2018 academic year is eligible to apply, as long as they can demonstrate a strong connection between their research and Jewish Studies topics. The amount per fellowship will be $3000. Multiple fellowships are available. Support may also be available for additional opportunities related to students’ research projects.

The goal of this fellowship is to build intellectual community as well as professional skills. Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows will participate in regular workshops on Jewish Studies and Public Scholarship. Students will have the opportunity to get valuable feedback and mentorship for their research projects via public presentations at Jewish Studies Faculty Seminars.

Graduate students from all departments and disciplines are encouraged to apply. Past participants have come from the departments of History, Comparative Religion, English, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Political Science, International Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Linguistics, French and Italian Studies, and Information Science.

The Honors College at the University of Arizona invites applications for a three-year renewable position in the core Honors Interdisciplinary faculty, and in particular to teach in the Honors College Health and Human Values minor. The minor is an intensive interdisciplinary program, intended to provide a knowledge and theory base in the social sciences and the humanities for high-ability students planning careers in the health professions.

Applicants must apply via our website located at https://uacareers.com/postings/16329 by submitting an online application, a current copy of your vita, the names of three references, and a cover letter describing how your training fits the goals of the minor. Discussion of teaching, and evidence of teaching effectiveness, will be especially important.

Qualifications:

Master’s degree or higher in Psychology, Social Work (MSW), School Counseling (CAS), or School Psychology AND/OR New York State licensure in one or more of the following areas: Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW), Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, or Psychoanalysis.

For human services courses with an education emphasis – Master’s degree in discipline, license and certificate in discipline. Prior college teaching experience, knowledge of student learning outcomes, and familiarity with instructional technology and/or online teaching are preferred.

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The Sociology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time, non-continuing faculty position within the area of Political Sociology. Appointment will be for a term of one year beginning Fall 2017. Requirements include the PhD in hand or expected by first semester of academic year 2017. Ability to teach in the areas of environmental sociology, transnationalism, or economic sociology are beneficial, but not required. The incumbent will teach Introductory Sociology and upper level courses in the area of specialization. To be assured of consideration, submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, graduate academic transcripts, and at least three recent letters of reference* to https://jobs.oberlin.edu/ by February 22, 2017.

Abstract: Whether central banks should publish individually attributed voting records from monetary policy committee meetings is among the most contested areas of debate in monetary policymaking today. Though more and more banks are making this shift in the name of individual accountability and transparent policymaking, many central banks continue to shield their voting policymakers from such public scrutiny. In this paper, I argue that while unattributed vote outcomes are potentially beneficial as a communication mechanism to coordinate market expectations, publishing complete voting records undermines both the accountability of central banks and their ability to manage market expectations. Empirically, I leverage the implementation of a freedom of information law in Brazil which required the release of individually attributed central bank voting records. The evidence shows that not only has this policy change worsened the accuracy of market expectations, but it also reduced the ability of the central bank to influence market expectations with their official communications. This result has important implications for the ongoing debates over the merits of central bank transparency and provides a cautionary tale for the application of broad political reform efforts to monetary policy institutions.

Many data sources report related variables of interest that are also referenced over geographic regions and time; however, there are relatively few general statistical methods that one can readily use that incorporate these multivariate spatio-temporal dependencies. Additionally, many multivariate spatio-temporal areal data sets are extremely high dimensional, which leads to practical issues when formulating statistical models. For example, we analyze Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) published by the US Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program. QWIs are available by different variables, regions, and time points, resulting in millions of tabulations. Despite their already expansive coverage, by adopting a fully Bayesian framework, the scope of the QWIs can be extended to provide estimates of missing values along with associated measures of uncertainty. Motivated by the LEHD, and other applications in federal statistics, we introduce the multivariate spatio-temporal mixed effects model (MSTM), which can be used to efficiently model high-dimensional multivariate spatio- temporal areal data sets. The proposed MSTM extends the notion of Moran’s I basis functions to the multivariate spatio-temporal setting. This extension leads to several methodological contributions, including extremely effective dimension reduction, a dynamic linear model for multivariate spatio-temporal areal processes, and the reduction of a high-dimensional parameter space using a novel parameter model.

The Department of Computer Science at University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor to begin August 2017. Duties include teaching in the undergraduate and graduate computer science programs and graduate teaching in the data science program, maintaining an active research program, and directing undergraduate and graduate students.

Minimum Requirements

Ph.D. in Computer Science or closely related area required.

Preferred Qualifications

The M.S. degree in data science will begin in Fall 2017, and a primary focus of this position will be to teach in this program and have a research program that complements the degree. Research with emphasis in predictive analytics, data mining, machine learning, visualization, or distributed databases and processing is preferred.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Teach courses in one of the following areas: Applied/Public Sociology or Organizational Dynamics.
• Supervise internships and/or service learning.
• Research Productivity.
• Services to the department, university and community.
• Continuing professional development.
• Contribute to student growth and development.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ph.D. in Sociology or Ph.D. in a field within Human Services or Public/Social Policy (ABD applicants with expected completion dates by August 14, 2017 will be considered; official transcripts due by September 30, 2017)

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