University of Notre Dame

The Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure (OSD‐CI) Project at the University of Notre Dame will have one postdoctoral fellowship available beginning in January 2010 for a period of 18 months. We welcome applicants who have specialized in the sociology of organizations and/or social networks. The project entails conducting research on and designing a virtual organization that leverages crowd sourcing potential by having “citizen engineers” provide analyses related to civil engineering projects that are then aggregated in various ways for end‐user clients. More information on this project can be found at www.nd.edu/~opence. The postdoctoral researcher will be working with a team of sociologists, civil engineers and computer scientists on the design and assessment of such a virtual organization. This postdoctoral researcher will also interface with the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA) and the Sociology Department, receiving their primary supervision from Prof. Hachen with coadvisement by the Civil Engineering professors affiliated with this interdisciplinary project. Researchers will have full access to iCeNSA’s and the Sociology Department’s collective resources in computing, print/data libraries, and administrative services. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States and must have completed all the requirements for the doctorate by the time of the initial appointment. To apply, send a vita, a short description of your current and future work, three letters of recommendation, and copies of your publications or papers to: Professor David Hachen, Co‐Director Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications 225 Nieuwland Hall Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 Applications received on or before December 19, 2009 will be given priority.

Princeton University

The Princeton University Center for the Study of Social Organization is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral research associate for a 12-month position, renewable for a second year, beginning September 2010. The Center is a unit within the Princeton University Sociology Department devoted to fostering research on complex organizations, social networks, and economic sociology. The Center sponsors three ongoing workshops, gives small grants to graduate students, and serves as a focus for research on social organization within the Department and the larger Princeton community. Applicants should be engaged in significant work in at least one of the three focal fields. Research associates will pursue their own research agendas, with the additional obligations of full-time residence in Princeton during the year, teaching one small course or seminar (subject to Dean of the Faculty approval) during the first year, and attending regularly the Center's weekly workshop and speaker series. The research associate will be paid a salary of $50,000 plus benefits and a research-and-travel fund of $5,000. Applicants should apply online and please include a c.v., writing sample(s), and a description (no longer than three pages) of your research agenda over the next 2 to 3 years. Application deadline is January 1, 2010, with the expectation that a candidate will be selected by February 15. Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable EEO and affirmative action regulations. To be eligible, candidates must have received the Ph.D. on or after July 1, 2008; or be on track to complete all requirements for the Ph.D. degree, including the dissertation defense, by August 1, 2010. (Completion by this date is a strict condition for beginning the position.) For additional information, see https://jobs.princeton.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time= 1258648842994 For information on the Center for the Study of Social Organizations, see http://www.princeton.edu/csso/

Research Analyst Position

Harvard College Observatory

The Research Analyst will analyze data and co-author research publications within the large-scale empirical research project "Factors Influencing College Success in Mathematics" (FICSMath), a project examining role of high school experiences and other background factors in predicting students' performance in college calculus classes. Job responsibilities include conducting literature searches and reviews pertaining to the FICSMath project, developing testable hypotheses, conducting quantitative and statistical data analyses to test these hypotheses, and writing up the results in publishable form, under the guidance of, and in co-authorship with, senior members of the research team.

The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim invites applications for a Junior Professor in Organizational Sociology (W1)
We seek scholars with an innovative research agenda and internationally visible publications in the field of organizational sociology. The successful candidate should be committed to outstanding teaching in organizational sociology and related courses offered in the B.A. and M.A./Ph.D.
programs in sociology. Contributions to the research activities at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) are expected. We explicitly welcome participation in the social science doctoral program (taught in English) of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS).

Candidates will need to demonstrate excellent teaching skills. Employment requirements include a first university degree and a doctoral degree. An outstanding dissertation is expected. Teaching can be in English, but non-German speakers are expected to learn German within the first three
years. The University of Mannheim is deeply committed to student mentoring and expects a strong presence of its faculty on campus. The successful candidate is therefore expected to move into the Mannheim metropolitan area.

The University of Mannheim is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates with disabilities will be given preference in case of equal qualifications. The University of Mannheim seeks to increase the percentage of its female faculty members in research and teaching. Thus, qualified women are especially encouraged to apply. Please submit your application online at http://jobs.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/. Your application should
consist of four PDF-files: a Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae including a list of Publications, Certificates and Records and the two latest teaching evaluations (in a single file) as well as two letters of recommendation (sent directly to the dean). If you cannot submit your application online, please send the above mentioned documents to the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, Prof. Berthold Rittberger, A5, 6, 68131 Mannheim, Germany (dekanat@sowi.uni-mannheim.de).
All applications received before December 11, 2009 will be given full consideration.

Economic Crisis and New Social Realities
2010 Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society

Participate in the exciting ESS 2010 Meetings!

Want to give a paper?   All you need is an abstract!

Don't have a paper?   Volunteer to be a discussant or presider!

Still Undecided?   Just look at who else is going to be there!

The Top 10 Reasons to Attend the ESS Meeting March 18-21st 2010:

10. EXPERIENCE workplace justice.  Attend a thematic session on Employment, Unions and Downsizing organized by Dan Clawson.  The ESS encounter with the economic crisis becomes part of the story.

9. ATTEND a conversation on Post-Obama America with William Julius Wilson, Larry Bobo and Cheryl Gilkes.

8. JOIN a discussion on the crisis in higher education with Brandeis’ President Jehuda Reinharz and Scott Jaschik from Inside Higher Education (and others) and find out what the future holds. 

7. HEAR from Colleagues like  Orlando Patterson, Richard Alba, Phyllis Moen, Juliet Shor, David Pellow, Bryan Turner,  Ruth Milkman  about how new social realities are emerging from this economic crisis including retirement, the environment, housing, jobs, healthcare and public life.

6. ATTEND A MINI-CONFERENCE on poverty, inequality and work organized by Don Tomaskovic-Devey and Steve Vallas  -- or one on urban ethnography with Elijah Anderson, Mitch Duneier, and Sudhir Venkatesh.

5. MEET THE AUTHORS AND THEIR CRITICS and meet our new ESS authors at THE NEW book reception.

4. CELEBRATE the work of Naomi Gerstel at Thursday’s Robin Williams Lecture

3. ENGAGE IN "CONVERSATIONS WITh” Margaret Anderson, Katrina MacDonald, Bill Gamson, Alan Wolfe, Wendy Cage, Dorothy Smith, Nancy Naples and many more top scholars on our changing society from the future of liberalism to the shape of religion in the U.S.

2. HONOR the work  of Rosabeth Moss Kanter

1. CATCH UP with old friends and enjoy the sites around Boston!

Don't Forget--Sign up TODAY!  The Deadline is OCTOBER 30th:
To submit an abstract or to volunteer please visit the ESS homepage at:
www.essnet.org

The Center for Law, Society, and Culture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington will appoint up to three Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year. We invite applications from pre-tenure scholars, recently awarded PhDs, and those with equivalent professional degrees to conduct research at Indiana University and participate in the activities of the Center, which include an annual symposium, a colloquia series, and regular workshops and lectures.

Scholars of law, the humanities, or social sciences working in the field of sociolegal studies are encouraged to apply. Advanced graduate students may also apply, but evidence of completion of the doctoral degree or its equivalent is required before beginning the fellowship. Fellows will devote a full academic year to research and writing in furtherance of a major scholarly project. The stipend will be $23,000 plus a research allowance, health insurance, other benefits, and workspace at Indiana Law. Fellows are expected to be in full-time residence in Bloomington in order to take advantage of the rich intellectual life of the Center, the School of Law, and Indiana University.

A complete application consists of: (1) a research proposal (up to 10 pages); (2) curriculum vitae (with address and complete contact information), and (3) three letters of recommendation (must be sent separately)

Applications should be sent to:
Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Center for Law, Society, and Culture
Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington
211 S. Indiana Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405

Completed applications must be received by Jan. 4, 2010, in order to ensure full consideration. The award will be announced in mid March 2010.

For more information, contact the fellowship coordinator at Hallpd@indiana.edu

Additional information about the Indiana University Center for Law, Society & Culture, and the Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship can be found at: http://www.law.indiana.edu/students/centers/lawsociety/postdoctoral-fellowship.shtml

Copenhagen Business School

There is a junior job opening in economic sociology (quantitative orientation) at Centre for Business & Politics at the Copenhagen Business School: http://frontpage.cbs.dk/jobs/stil.pl?func=details&id=1408

U.S.-Japan Program Advanced Research Fellowships

A few postdoctoral fellowships are offered each year by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations for the study of issues in U.S.-Japan relations, Japan’s relations with other countries, and domestic issues that bear on Japan’s international behavior.

Awards and Benefits

The postdoctoral stipend is $44,000 plus health insurance. U.S.-Japan Advanced Research Fellows are offered shared office space at the Center and access to Harvard facilities.

Who is Eligible?

Candidates must have completed all the requirements for a Ph.D. or other terminal degree before the fellowship commences.

Terms

Advanced Research Fellows reside at the Center and, in addition to their own work, participate in the activities of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and teach one course in an FAS department.

How to Apply

For more information, visit the program’s website at http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/application/postdoc_application.htm

Deadline

January 15, 2010.

Nominations Needed for the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting

The annually organized Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting is intended to recognize a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology. Given for the first time in 2004-2005, the Coser Award recognizes a mid-career sociologist whose work, in the opinion of the Committee, holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology.

While the award winner need not be a theorist, his or her work must exemplify the sociological ideals Coser represented. Eligible candidates must be sociologists or do work that is of crucial importance to sociology. They must have received a Ph.D. no less than five and no more than twenty years before their candidacy.

Nomination letters should make a strong substantive case for the nominee's selection and should discuss the nominee's work and his or her anticipated future trajectory. Nominations should be sent to Richard Swedberg (Cornell) at rs328@cornell.edu.

No self-nominations are allowed. Committee members may nominate candidates. After nomination, the Committee will solicit additional information from nominees and others for those candidates they consider appropriate for consideration, including published works and at least two additional letters of support from third parties. The Committee may decide in any given year that no nominee warrants the award, in which case it will not be awarded that year. 

The examining committee for 2009-1010 is Evelyn Nakano Glenn (ASA President), Karin Knorr Cetina, JoAnn Miller (SSSP President), Loic Wacquant (previous winner), and Richard Swedberg (Section Chair)

Richard Swedberg
Professor of Sociology
328 Uris Hall
Cornell Unversity
Ithaca, NY 14853-7601

Penn State announces the 4th annual De Jong Lecture in Social Demography to be held November 3, 2009. Suzanne M. Bianchi, Professor of Sociology and Dorothy Meier Chair in Social Equity, UCLA, will present "Gender and the Reallocation of Time Later in Life." Given the dominant trend in Western societies toward increased female labor force participation, there has understandably been a great deal of exploration of women's time allocation and gender equality in market and nonmarket work during the childrearing years. Much less well conceptualized or studied empirically is what happens to women's (and men's) time and to the gender division of labor later in life, as children exit the parental home and women (and men) approach retirement. The presentation will discuss illustrative findings from a number of datasets that provide insights into women's (and men's) time allocation at a point in the life course when women's and men's work and family demands may again be more similar than during the childrearing years. Discussants will be Frances Goldscheider, College Park Professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland, and Valarie King, Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies at Penn State.

The conference is free. Visit http://www.pop.psu.edu/events/dejonglecture/ for details and registration. The De Jong Lecture is supported by the Gordon F. and Caroline M. De Jong Lectureship in Social Demography Endowment and supplemented by the Department of Sociology and the Population Research Institute at Penn State.

Junior Faculty Tenure-Track Position

Junior tenure-track Organizational Behavior & Theory faculty position opening at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University for appointment at the untenured level. Applicants should demonstrate achievement of, or potential for, excellence in research and in teaching MBA, doctoral, and undergraduate students. Accomplished academic training in organizational behavior or theory, strategy, sociology, psychology, or related fields is required, as well as a Ph.D. at the time of appointment (Fall 2010). The OBT faculty at the Tepper School specialize in the areas of inter- and intra-group behavior, learning, decision-making, conflict and innovation, and employment relationships. Priority will be given to candidates whose research enhances any of these areas and also considers organizational level phenomena.

To apply, please submit application letter, vita, three publications or unpublished research papers, research and teaching statements, (Doctoral students should also submit dissertation proposal) to obtgroup@andrew.cmu.edu and three recommendation letters (via the Postal Service) to Ms. Rosanne Christy, Faculty Search Coordinator for Organizational & Theory, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Posner 233, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. If you have any questions about the application, please contact Ms. Christy at 412-268-1320..

To receive consideration, an application must be complete by October 15, 2009.

For more information about the Organizational Behavior & Theory group please visit our webpage at http://www.tepper.cmu.edu/doctoral-program/fields-of-study/organizational-behavior-and-theory/index.aspx.

Carnegie Mellon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer with particular interest in identifying women and minority applicants for faculty positions.

Call for Papers

WSF Award of Excellence Program
for Research Papers on World Society 2010
on the topic of
The Global Economic Crisis: Perceptions and Impacts
For more information on the WSF and its activities, please check out our website: www.uzh.ch/wsf