Rice University - 2 Junior Positions

[anony]

Rice University. Pending administrative approval, the Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track position with a preference for the Assistant Professor level to begin July 2012. Area of specialty is open, but we are particularly interested in applicants whose research areas include family, gender, race, and/or sexuality. An ability to teach social theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels would be a plus. Rice University, a Research 1 private institution, offers several unique advantages, including a postdoctoral fellowship program, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, competitive salaries, outstanding undergraduate students, and a new PhD program. For more information, please visit our website: sociology.rice.edu/. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, samples of published work, and three letters of recommendation to: Chair of the Junior Family/Gender Search Committee, Rice University, Department of Sociology MS-28, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005-1892. The application deadline is October 1st, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. Ph.D. preferred; Ph.D. required by Nov. 1 of first year of employment. Rice University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.


Rice University. Pending administrative approval, the Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track position with a preference for the Assistant Professor level to begin July 2012. Area of specialty is open, but we are particularly interested in applicants whose research areas include urban, community, and/or race. Rice University, a Research 1 private institution, offers several unique advantages, including a postdoctoral fellowship program, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, competitive salaries, outstanding undergraduate students, and a new PhD program. For more information, please visit our website: sociology.rice.edu/. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, samples of published work, and three letters of recommendation to: Chair of the Junior Urban Search Committee, Rice University, Department of Sociology MS-28, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005-1892. The application deadline is October 1st, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. Ph.D. preferred; Ph.D. required by November 1 of first year of employment. Rice University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

[where]

Where did this come from? Unless I am missing something, it isn't on the department site, the HR site, the ASA Job Bank, HigherEdJobs, etc.

[anony]

It came from the department. Look for it in the ASA job bank shortly.

[a musing]

I'm familiar with Rice, but not its sociology program. Any guesses where they rank?

[New]

Because it is a new phd program, I would guess that it is currently unranked.

[anon]

New PhD program, but impressive pedigrees of current faculty. I'm just trying to wrap my head around where they might fall in terms of hiring power. I.e., once the top 10 (Berkeley et al.) hire, are they next in the job-hiring queue?

[anony]

LOL, lets not get ahead of ourselves...

[anon2]

If I were to guess, I would say they already rank somewhere between 30-50 among all sociology departments. I think that's where an informal survey (with thousands of votes) had them ranked over at orgtheory. But of course, it's hard to say given that their PhD program is so new.

[anon3]

~30-50 makes sense. Thanks for the input anon2.

[posted]

The positions are now posted on the departmental website.

[anon]

Prestige of the top departments is relatively constant, and unresponsive to actual shifts in faculty productivity over time.

What matters is who is in the program now, who would you be working with, is it a department on the rise, how do they treat junior faculty? Is the position structured to support your early career development? We are Sociologists, it seems that it should be evident that the culture of the department is a primary consideration for any position.

It will not do you a lot of good to be in a top tier program, if it is not one that will support your early career development.