The Department of Politics at Sheffield University is hiring up to 4 (four) lecturers – the UK equivalent of assistant professors – with a starting date of Sept. 1, 2018. Applications are due March 16. You can find out more about the department here. For information about the openings, please email Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky at l.stampnitzky@sheffield.ac.uk
The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award in Political Sociology:
The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2018.
This award is given annually to the outstanding recent book in political sociology (we will not consider edited books for this award). To be eligible, the book must have a 2017 copyright date. The selection committee encourages self-nominations or suggestions of work by others. Nominations from publishers will not be accepted. To nominate a book for this award:
(1) Send a short letter (via e-mail) nominating the book to each committee member below and
(2) Have a copy of the book sent to each committee member, at the addresses below.
Chair: Jennifer Hsu, jhsu@ualberta.ca
Visiting Fellow, Department of Social Policy
2nd Floor, Old Building
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street,
London WC2A 2AE UK
Cristian Mora, cmora@berkeley.edu
410 Barrows Hall
Sociology Department
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 USA
Xiaohong Xu socxuxh@nus.edu.sg
Department of Sociology, AS1 #04-18
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117570
Meghan Kallman, Meghan_Kallman@umb.edu
93 Capwell Ave
Pawtucket, RI 02860. USA
Rima Wilkes, wilkesr@mail.ubc.ca
Department of Sociology
University of British Columbia
6303 NW Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1 Canada
Nick Wilson, Yale University, nicholas.wilson@stonybrook.edu
Department of Sociology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA meetings allowing presses to advertise the prize-winning book.
The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for an Article or Chapter Award for Political Sociology. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2018.
This award is offered annually for the outstanding recently published article or chapter in political sociology. To be eligible, submissions must have a 2017 publication date. The selection committee encourages either self-nominations or suggestions of work by others. (Please note that each author may have only one article nominated.) Please submit the following to the selection committee at their email addresses listed below:
(1) A brief nomination letter and
(2) A copy of the article or chapter.
The Best Article or Book Chapter Award Committee:
Chair: Elizabeth Popp Berman, University at Albany, SUNY, epberman@albany.edu
Dana Fisher, University of Maryland, drfisher@umd.edu
Paul Chang, Harvard University, paulchang@fas.harvard.edu
Joseph Harris, Boston University, josephh@bu.edu
David Jacobs, Ohio State University, Jacobs.184@osu.edu
The winners will be notified and announced prior to the ASA meetings.
Best Graduate Student Paper Award. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2018.
This award is offered annually for the best graduate student paper in political sociology. Persons who were graduate students at any time during calendar year 2017 are invited to submit published or unpublished papers for this award. To be eligible, papers must be either single authored or co-authored by two or more graduate students. Articles co-authored (and/or subsequently published jointly) by a faculty and a student are not eligible. Please note that each author may have only one article nominated. Please submit:
(1) A brief nomination letter,
(2) A copy of the article or chapter
The Department of Sociology and the International Studies Program at Boston College invite applications for a tenure track assistant professor position. A successful candidate is one whose research, teaching, and advising are relevant to the consideration of global history, culture, and social structure, as well as to the social justice mission of the sociology department’s PhD program. Scholars with expertise in any geographic area, or those who do transnational or international sociology, are invited to apply. The tenure line will be located in the sociology department. The position, which begins in Fall 2018, entails half-time undergraduate teaching in International Studies and half-time graduate and undergraduate teaching in the Department of Sociology. Preference will be given to entry-level applicants, but excellent candidates at the advanced Assistant Professor level will also be considered.
Applicants should apply at https://apply.interfolio.com/4
All inquiries should be sent to Andrew Jorgenson, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Chair of the Search Committee, at jorgenan@bc.edu.
Boston College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at http://www.bc.edu/offices/dive
Please join us in congratulating the winners of our 2017 Section Awards! Many thanks to the members of our award committees, without whom none of this would be possible. The awards will be given at our business meeting, Monday, August 14 at 5:30pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 517B.
Distinguished Article Award
Mayrl, Damon and Sarah Quinn. 2016. “Defining the State from Within: Boundaries, Schemas, and Associational Policymaking.” Sociological Theory 34(1): 1–26.
Graduate Student Paper Award
Arar, Rawan. Forthcoming. “International solidarity and ethnic boundaries: using the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to strengthen ethno-national claims in Northern Ireland.” Nations and Nationalism.
Distinguished Book Award (Co-Winners)
Vargas, Robert. 2016. Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio. Oxford University Press.
Zubrzycki, Geneviève. 2016. Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec. University of Chicago Press.