Date Position is Available:
Summer 2022
Application Deadline:
1/31/2022
Listing Active:
12/3/2021 to 2/1/2022
Company:
University of Michigan
Department:
Survey Research Center
Region:
Midwest
Title:
Assistant Research Scientist
Job Position/Rank:
Academic Positions: Assistant Professor
Tenure/Tenure Track:
Not Applicable
Special Program and
Areas of Faculty Expertise:
Economic Sociology
Social Welfare/Social Work
Salary Range:
Negotiable
Submission Link:
http://apply.interfolio.com/99547
Job Description:
The Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR) invites applications for a full-time position of Research Assistant Professor at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID).
SRC (http://www.src.isr.umich.edu/) is a unique, world-renowned social science research center that conducts investigator-initiated research on theoretical and applied problems of social and scientific importance. CID (https://www.inequalitydynamics.umich.edu/) is a recently established SRC unit dedicated to the study of changes and stability in social inequality across time, generations, and place. CID also seeks to expand the social scientific data infrastructure available to support research on these topics.
We are looking for an enterprising scholar with a research interest in wealth inequality and an excitement for creating and using novel data products to support the study of socio-economic inequality. You will be able to pursue these research interests through external funding and collaborate with other scholars in ongoing research programs at the University of Michigan and beyond. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in a new, large-scale effort to estimate wealth and its intergenerational persistence across the entire United States based on an existing collaboration with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and help distribute such estimates to the research community, policymakers, and broader public. Finally, you will be able to help shape the organizational development of the relatively young and growing Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics.
Successful candidates will have strong quantitative skills, exposure to multiple types of data (such as, survey data and administrative data), and an interest in or demonstrated record of contributing to interdisciplinary efforts to advance foundational inequality research. Examples of particularly relevant areas of interest for this position include – but are not restricted to – research on net worth inequality, on housing wealth and housing markets, on taxation and public economics, or on racial and ethnic inequality in wealth.
We are interested in researchers who would thrive in our entrepreneurial, interdisciplinary, collegial, yet highly autonomous culture. Individuals from groups historically under-represented in the social sciences are strongly encouraged to apply.
Employer Description:
The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Contact:
Lisa Blumenauer
Email:
Phone:
734-615-7368