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Sociology Department now accepting applications for position beginning Fall 2025
The Department of Sociology invites applications at the Assistant or early Associate level, for a tenure-track position beginning fall 2025. The successful candidate shall be a teacher and scholar of true eminence and excellence in a field that emphasizes the study and use of data and have demonstrated interest in computational methods, including social network analysis and/or working with social media data, and use computational methods in their teaching and research. Successful candidates will teach one introductory data science course, one upper-level elective in sociology that involves computational social science, as well as two additional courses in their area of expertise each year. Occasionally, on a rotating basis, candidates will teach a First-Year Seminar course in their area of expertise in place of one of the above courses. Additionally, all faculty at Middlebury teach fall and spring courses, contribute to our Winter Term course offerings, and serve the College by participating on elected committees and as Chair or Director of the department or program at the appropriate time in their career. Substantive areas of interest are open. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Sociology (or a closely related field with training in Sociology).
Qualifications
Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research. This hire is the first of what Middlebury expects will be multiple endowed tenure-track positions in departments across campus to grow the Middlebury Initiative in Data and Digital Methods (midd.data). Middlebury College is committed to fostering a truly inclusive, open, and supportive learning, teaching, and working environment. The College hires faculty from around the world and a myriad of life experiences, cultures, frames of reference, social identities, and learning perspectives to help cultivate and advance innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our talented and distinguished student body. To that end, as an equal opportunity employer, Middlebury College seeks applications from people who would contribute to our increasingly diverse educational community not only through their backgrounds and interests, but in age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, religion, and physical ability.
Application Instructions
Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. At Middlebury, we strive to make our campus a respectful, engaged community that embraces difference, with the all the complexity and individuality each person brings. Thus, with your application materials please provide a separate, one-page statement on inclusion that addresses how your teaching, scholarship, mentorship, and/or community service demonstrate a commitment to and/or evidence of engaging with issues of diversity and inclusion. Through Interfolio submit: a letter of application addressed to the search committee chair, Professor Chong-suk Han; a curriculum vitae; undergraduate and graduate transcripts; a statement of teaching and research plans; a sample of scholarly production; and contact information of three recommenders who can later submit confidential letters of recommendations, at least two of which must speak to teaching ability/promise. More information is available at http://apply.interfolio.com/153298. Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information on our background check policy can be found here: http://go.middlebury.edu/backgroundchecksLinks to an external site.
Review of applications will begin on October 18, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.
Faculty Publications
C. Winter Han
2018 “Very Few People Say No Whites: Gay Men of Color and the Racial Politics of Desire,” with Kyung-Hee Choi, Sociological Spectrum 13(3): 145-161. 26
2018 “How Sexual Racism Impacts Erotic Capital,” with Jesus G. Smith and Maria Cristina Morales, in The Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, 2e, Pinar Batur and Joe Feagin, eds., pp. 389-400. New York: Springer.
2017 “The Deliberate Racism Making #GayMediaSoWhite,” Contexts 16(4): 70-71.
2015 Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America. New York: New York University Press.
2015 “No Brokeback for Black Men: Pathologizing Black Male (Homo)sexuality through Down Low Discourse,” Social Identities 21(3): 228-243.
2008 “No Fats, Femmes, or Asians: The Utility of Critical Race Theory in Examining the Role of Gay Stock Stories in the Marginalization of Gay Asian Men,” Contemporary Justice Review 11(1): 11-22.
2008 “A Qualitative Study of the Relationship between Racism and Unsafe Sex among Asian and Pacific Islander Gay Men,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 37(5): 827-837.
2007 “They Don’t Want to Cruise your Type: Gay Men of Color and the Racial Politics of Exclusion,” Social Identities 13(1): 51-67.
Matt Lawrence
2016 “And Their Children After Them? The Effect of College on Educational Reproduction,” with Richard Breen, American Journal of Sociology 122(2): 532-572.
2016 “Unequal Advantages: The Effects of Parental Educational Mobility on Children’s Preparation for College,” American Educational Research Journal 53: 71-99.
Jamie McCallum
2018 The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment, edited volume with Tamar Mayer and Sujata Moorti. Routledge Studies in Human Geography. New York: Routledge.
2018 “Take this Job and Love It? The Millennial Work Ethic and the Politics of Getting Back to Work,” in Youth, Jobs and the Future: Problems and Prospects, L. Chancer and M.S. Jankowski, eds, pp. 55-74. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2018 “Time’s Up! Shorter Hours, Public Policy, and Time Flexibility as an Antidote to Youth Unemployment,” with Katherine Maich and Ari Grant-Sasson, in Youth, Jobs and the Future: Problems and Prospects, L. Chancer and M.S. Jankowski, eds, pp. 219-238. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2017 “The New Global Labor Studies: A Critical Review,” with Marissa Brookes, Global Labour Journal 8(3): 201-218.
2017 “Reflecting on Global Unions, Local Power,” Journal of World Systems Research 23(1): 213-218.
2015 “Implementing Global Framework Agreements: The Limits of Social Partnership,” with Michael Fichter, Global Networks 15: 65-85.
2013 Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell ILR Press.
Linus Owens
2016 “Amsterdam Squatters: The Right to the City Meets a Politics of Mobility,” in A European Youth in Revolt, K. Andreson and B. van der Steen, eds., pp. 53-66. London: Palgrave.
2014 “Emotions and Social Movements,” with J. Jasper, in Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions, J. Stets and J. Turner, eds., pp. 611-635. New York: Springer.
2012 “Have Squat, will Travel: How Squatter Mobility Mobilizes Squatting,” in Squatting in Europe: Radical Space, Urban Struggles. Squatting Europe Kollective, eds., pp. 185-208. London: Minor Compositions.
2012 “At Home in the Movement: Constructing an Oppositional Identity through Activist Travel across Europe,” with Ask Katzeff, Elizabeth Lorenzi, and Baptiste Colin, in Understanding European Movements, L. Cox and C. Flesher Forminaya, eds., pp. 172-186. London: Routledge.
2009 Cracking under Pressure: Stories of Decline in the Amsterdam Squatters’ Movement. Amsterdam: Penn State University Press & Amsterdam University Press.
Rebecca Tiger
2017 “Race, Class and the Framing of Drug Epidemics,” Contexts 16(4): 46-51.
2015 “Celebrity Gossip Blogs and the Interactive Construction of Addiction,” New Media & Society 17(3): 340-355.
2013 Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System. New York: New York University Press.
2013 “Celebrity Drug Scandals, Media Double Standards,” Contexts 12(4): 36-41.
2013 “Beyond Badness and Sickness: The Sociology of Drugs and Addiction,” Contemporary Sociology 42(4): 533-536.
Peggy Nelson
2019 Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin, with Rosanna Hertz. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2010 Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times. New York: New York University Press. Reissued in paperback, 2012.
2005 The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America. New York: Routledge. Reissued as an e-book, 2014.
1999 Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America, with Joan Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1990 Negotiated Care: The Experiences of Family Day Care Providers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Reissued as an e-book, 2010.
Trinh Tran
2015 Overlapping and Disconnected Social Spheres: A Multi-Contextual Model of the Link Between School Choice and Neighborhood Effects on Adolescents. Ph.D dissertation, Sociology. Berkeley: University of California – Berkeley.