Job Description – AY17 – Department Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies Program
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a faculty position at the level of non-tenure stream Lecturer in Anthropology. Pending budgetary approval, the position will begin in fall 2017 with an initial two-year contract, with the possibility of obtaining renewable three-year contracts after satisfactory performance reviews. A PhD in hand at the time of application is required. The successful applicant will be expected to advise undergraduate students and assume the duties of Director of the Undergraduate Studies program for the Department of Anthropology. The teaching load will be a 3 + 2 course load during the academic year. The ability to teach large enrollment introductory courses and upper-level elective courses is desirable. We invite applications from candidates with teaching and research experience in North America with a particular emphasis on Native American, African American, or Latino studies from one or more sub-field perspectives (Archaeology, Social and Cultural Anthropology and Physical Anthropology). A particular preference for expertise in the teaching and study of material culture and/or (paleo)demography is sought.
Please submit letter of application, CV, and names/email addresses of three references online at: https://facultysearch.as.pitt.edu/review/main. To receive full consideration, applications should be received by January 15, 2017. The University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, members of minority groups under-represented in academia, veterans, and disabled are especially encouraged to apply.
Seeking Doctoral Student – sustainable and resilient land use:
Ph.D. Position in the lab of Dr. Basil Iannone in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation (SFRC) at the University of Florida starting in fall 2017. The student will contribute to an
interdisciplinary, cross-departmental cohort focusing on sustainable and resilient land use. Interests within this group are diverse and include community ecology, geospatial analysis, invasion biology,
ecological restoration, hydrology, energy conservation, soil science, and big-data analytics.
The student will have the opportunity to work with many faculty and stakeholders to develop interdisciplinary research that applies geospatial analysis to address two over-arching topics:
(1) the impacts of land development on natural areas and
(2) how to better incorporate ecosystem services and ecological functioning into future land development.
Required qualifications: A master’s degree in ecology or other related field; interests in applied, interdisciplinary research and spatial ecology; and good writing skills.
Desired qualifications: Experience in GIS and statistical analysis.
Please email:
(1) Letter of Interests stating your research/career interests, how you would benefit from this opportunity, and how you meet the above qualifications;
(2) C.V.;
(3) unofficial transcripts;
(4) copies of your GRE scores;
(5) a list of three references who are willing to write letters of support on your behalf; and
(6) two representative publications or writing samples (e.g., thesis or reports) on which you are the lead author to Basil Iannone at biannone@ufl.edu.
Please place “Interested in Ph.D. Position” in subject line.
Review of applicants will begin immediately. Please note that official transcripts and GRE scores will be required for admittance into the SFRC.
Please see http://sfrc.ufl.edu/academics/graduate for information regarding the SFRC graduate program, including degree options, and application procedures.
Russell Sage Foundation
Up to $150,000 over two years
LOI due 1/9/17 or 5/31/17
Funding Opportunity: Social Inequality
The Foundation’s program on Social Inequality supports research on the social, economic, political, and labor market consequences of rising economic inequalities in the United States. We are currently accepting letters of inquiry.
Awards are available for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. Applications should limit budget requests to no more than a two-year period, with a maximum of $150,000 (including overhead) per project. Presidential Awards, with a maximum budget of $35,000 (no overhead allowed) are also available. Our website lists upcoming deadlines and provides detailed information about submitting letters of inquiry, proposals and budgets.
Funding Opportunity: Future of Work
The foundation’s program on the Future of Work supports research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for less- and moderately-skilled workers in the United States. We are especially interested in proposals that address important questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers, today and in the future.
Awards are available for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. Applications should limit budget requests to no more than a two-year period, with a maximum of $150,000 (including overhead) per project. Presidential Awards, with a maximum budget of $35,000 (no overhead allowed) are also available. Our website lists upcoming deadlines and provides detailed information about submitting letters of inquiry, proposals and budgets.
Funding Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
The Foundation’s newest program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, replaces two previous programs: Immigration and Cultural Contact. The new program encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives on questions stemming from the significant changes in the racial, ethnic, and immigrant-origin composition of the U.S. population. We are currently accepting letters of inquiry.
Awards are available for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. Applications should limit budget requests to no more than a two-year period, with a maximum of $150,000 (including overhead) per project. Presidential Awards, with a maximum budget of $35,000 (no overhead allowed) are also available. Our website lists upcoming deadlines and provides detailed information about submitting letters of inquiry, proposals and budgets.
Small Grants in Behavioral Economics
The Russell Sage Foundation offers small grants to support high quality research in behavioral economics and to encourage young investigators (Ph.D. students and recent graduates) to enter this developing field. There is a $7,500 lifetime limit for these small grants.
Call for Papers
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS)
ISSN 2220-8488 (Print), 2221- 0989 (Online)
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS) is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed international journal published by Center for Promoting Ideas, USA. The main objective of IJHSS is to provide an intellectual platform for the international scholars. IJHSS aims to promote interdisciplinary studies in humanities and social science and become the leading journal in humanities and social science in the world.
The journal publishes research papers in the fields of humanities and social science such as anthropology, business studies, communication studies, corporate governance ,criminology, cross-cultural studies ,demography, development studies, economics, education, ethics, geography, history, industrial relations, information science, international relations, law, linguistics, library science, media studies, methodology, philosophy, political science, population Studies, psychology, public administration, sociology, social welfare, linguistics ,literature, paralegal, performing arts (music, theatre & dance), religious studies ,visual arts, women studies and so on.
The journal is published in both print and online versions.
The journal is now indexed with and included in Cabell’s, Ulrich’s, DOAJ, Index Copernicus International, EBSCO and Gale. Moreover the journal is under the indexing process with ISI, ERIC, Econlit, Scopus and Journalseek.
IJHSS publishes original papers, review papers, conceptual framework, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews.
IJHSS is inviting papers for Vol. 7 No. 2 which is scheduled to be published on February 28, 2017. Last date of submission: January 31, 2017. However, an early submission will get preference in case of review and publication process.
Send your manuscript to the editor at editor@ijhssnet.com
For more information, visit the official website of the journal www.ijhssnet.com
FLAS travel grants course development awards:
It’s Award Season at the Center for European Studies! We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Graduate Student Course Development awards and Graduate Student Travel grants. The 2017-2018 Foreign Language and Area Studies competition for summer and academic year awards is also open for graduate students and undergraduate students. Please see below for more information regarding funding availability, application materials, and dates.
The 2017-2018 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Competition is now open at the UF Center for European Studies! Applications due by February 1, 2017. These prestigious fellowships are funded by the US Department of Education under Title VI of the Higher Education Act and support foreign language and area studies for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. The Center will award fellowships for language and area studies for the 2017-2018 academic year and also Summer 2017 fellowships, which are intended to provide support for foreign language study at an intensive level.
FLAS fellowships seek to enhance language skills and knowledge of a foreign country or region through coursework. Fellowships are available for the following lesser commonly taught European languages: Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Modern Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish. Funding may also be available to support advanced language training in French, German, or Spanish at the graduate level. Undergraduate fellowships are available to only those students pursuing language study at the intermediate and advanced level of the languages listed above.
Graduate Student Course Development Grants
The UF Center for European Studies will award up to 3 graduate students for course development grants to develop and teach new Europe-related courses in the Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 semesters. Applications due by February 15, 2017. Eligible courses are those in which at least 50% of the course material is related to Europe, European Studies subjects, or European Union Studies. Successful candidates will be offered a graduate teaching assistantship in CES and will include an in-state tuition waiver for the semester in which the course is taught.
Graduate Student Travel Grants
The UF Center for European Studies will award grants up to $3000 each to assist UF graduate students with travel in calendar year 2017 (mostly for summer 2017) to Europe to pursue research or to present work at a scholarly conference or workshop. Applications are due by February 15, 2017. These grants are open to all UF graduate students, regardless of discipline. The subject of the talk or research must be related to Europe or European Studies.