Assistant Professor of Sociology

Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tenure Track, position beginning on the 1st of September 2024. The successful candidate will be affiliated to the Centre for research on Social InequalitieS, located in the city center of Paris. Knowledge of French is not required for this position. 

This Assistant Professorship position is designed to reinforce and complement our expertise in the study of social inequality. We welcome applications from candidates with a recent PhD and with an ambitious research agenda in the area of social stratification and inequality, targeting publications in leading journals in the social sciences. Our faculty members are international experts in the study of central inequality concerns such as education, gender, life course, labor market and economic inequality, social mobility, urban segregation, migration, ethnoracial minorities, cultural, digital, health, criminal justice and environmental inequality. We welcome candidates engaged in any of these areas. We particularly encourage applicants capable of stimulating new expertise in the center on algorithm and AI related inequalities, environmental inequalities or on labor market inequalities. Profiles that broaden our comparative perspectives by adopting global approaches and.or focusing on low- and middle-income countries are also particularly welcome. 

The successful candidate will become a faculty member of CRIS. He/she is expected to play an active role in the center’s collective activity seminars, academic events, participation in research networks. He/she should also engage in responding to national and international calls to fund research projects. The successful candidate will teach in Sciences Po’s undergraduate and graduate programs, and will contribute to training and supervision in the graduate program in sociology. Beyond Her/His specific research fields, he.she could also teach general sociology in the Collège universitaire. 

Teaching load:

• 2024-2027: 2 courses with 24 contact hours each per year, 40 hours per year of other academic duties.
• Sep 2027-onwards: 3 courses with 24 contact hours each per year, 56 hours per year of other academic duties. 

Applications are due by 11 March 2024. Candidates should have a PhD or should complete it before June 2024.

Submissions must include:

• CV with a list of publications,
• Motivation letter,
• Research statement (2 pages),
• Short Teaching statement (1 page),
• Up to 2 significant publications chosen by the candidate,
• The names and email addresses of two academic referees. 

Applications should be sent to: [email protected]  

Shortlisted candidates will present a research paper at the public job talks that will take place in Paris, in June 2024. 

Complete job description:

https://www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sciencespo.fr.osc/files/CRIS_poste_AP_2024_eng.pdf  

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