"Tenured/Tenure-track Positions in Sociology"

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• Address
  1555 Century Avenue, Pudong New District, Shanghai, China
• Qualification
  PhD
• Discipline
  Art, Law, Political Science, Education, Literature

Description

NYU Shanghai is currently inviting applications for two positions in Sociology at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor, to start in Fall, 2022.

Terms of employment at NYU Shanghai are comparable to NYU New York and other U.S. institutions with respect to research start-up funds and compensation, and they include housing subsidies and educational subsidies for children. Faculty may in certain cases have the opportunity to spend time at NYU New York and other sites of the NYU Global Network, engaging in both research and teaching.

Qualifications

We seek candidates who have completed or will complete a Ph.D. in Sociology or a closely related discipline by September 2022. We invite applications from candidates in any field, including those with expertise in education, child development, inequality and poverty, family and gender in China and/or East Asian contexts. Successful candidates will also be able to leverage the resources at the newly established Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER).

Application Instructions

Applicants will submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of research, statement of teaching interests, and at least two writing samples via Interfolio. Additionally, applicants will be prompted to enter the names and email addresses of at least three referees. Each referee will be contacted to upload a reference letter through Interfolio.

Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2021 and will continue until the position is filled. If you have any questions, please email the NYU Shanghai NY Office of Faculty Recruitment shanghai.faculty.recruitment@nyu.edu.

About NYU Shanghai:

NYU Shanghai is the third degree-granting campus within New York University’s global network. It is the first higher education joint venture in China authorized to grant degrees that are accredited in the U.S. as well as in China. All teaching is conducted in English. A research university with liberal arts and science at its core, NYU Shanghai resides in one of the world’s great cities with a vibrant intellectual community. NYU Shanghai recruits scholars of the highest caliber who are committed to NYU’s global vision of transformative teaching and innovative research and who embody the global society in which we live.

NYU’s global network includes degree-granting campuses in New York, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi, complemented by eleven additional academic centers across five continents. Faculty and students circulate within the network in pursuit of common research interests and cross-cultural, interdisciplinary endeavors, both local and global.