Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Asst. Prof (Criminology)

[Soc100]

The Department of Sociology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 2019. Ideal candidates will be serious educators and scholars with excellent teaching skills and a research agenda with potential for peer-reviewed publications in the discipline. We are looking for broadly trained sociologists or criminologists (with a sociological background) who can teach Introduction to Criminology and upper level electives related to criminology. The ideal candidate will also be able to teach Sociology of Gender and courses in research methods or statistics. The regular teaching load is three courses per semester, including both online and traditional courses. A Ph.D. is required by the date of appointment. Applications should include: 1) a cover letter, 2) a curriculum vitae, 3) a copy of graduate transcripts, 4) a writing sample, and 5) evidence of teaching excellence and should be sent as a single pdf document to the Sociology Search Committee Chair at [e-mail]. Three letters of recommendation should be sent separately to the same address.Review of applications will begin on November 15 and continue until the position is filled. The University of Alabama in Huntsville, classified as a High Research Activity institution, offers academic and research programs in the Colleges of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Business Administration; Education; Engineering; Nursing; and Science.Huntsville maintains one of the highest per capita incomes and standards of living in the Southeast. It is a national center of aerospace and high technology research and is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The University of Alabama in Huntsville is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and protected veteran status.

[John M MacDougall MA-PhD Princ]

I spent the next four years, roughly 2004 to 2008, researching Darul Islam with the
counter-terror Desk (DKPT) of Indonesia’s Ministry for Law and Security. While writing
regularly for DKPT, I continued to write the results of field based research on human
trafficking rings, gang structures, Mental and physical Trauma among villagers in South
Aceh and contagious disease in Jakarta’s Drug Prison for The Health Division of the

World Bank. There was considerable overlap between the various gangs, militants or

purely criminal networks above. The organizational structure of secrecy shared by

militants, human traffickers, drug traffickers, and gang leaders only varied in the quality
of the secrecies that protected them. It is now, in 2013, that we are able to see the effects
of generational shift within institutions formed during the New Order. In the Buddhist
highlands of Lombok or among Militants in Sumatra, there were much simpler narratives
being told, remembered, and planned. It is in the ethnographic analysis of is most needed.
Indonesia and its ideological realms are useless without knowledge of its national
language, Indonesian. Since 2009, I have continued to write professionally on human
trafficking and the thug groups that participate in the incarceration of sex workers, old
and young. Unlike my other work, I have translated large books (on Human Rights and
Labor Policy or Kingship in Colonial Bali…see CV) in to Bahasa Indonesia from
English. I am translating my Old Javanese teacher’s Balinese poem ,entitled Purwa
Agama, while also translating Wilson Obrigados’s Indonesian language book entitled
“Behind Bars: the account of a witness” narrating the experiences of Indonesia’s anti-
Suharto activists imprisoned at LP Cipinang in Jakarta (1996-1999). These studies and
translations will be finished within the year.

Since our arrival to the US in July 2010, I have given papers at the Asian Studies
Department at NIU Dekalb and at the Carleton College Anthropology Department in
April 2011. Later that year, in September 2011, I presented a paper on the History of the
Darul Islam movement related to the research conducted for Sidney Jones at the Jakarta
office of the International Crisis Group. The Anti-Terror Ministry (BNPT) sponsored the
conference. Based on the spirit of an informed knowledge of Militant Islam in the region,
the ministry has used my studies of thuggish radicals over the years in Post-Suharto
Indonesia. My work in Prisons and HIV AIDS infection is well documented in my article,
Prison Cum Hostel for Inside Indonesia in Canberra, Australia. I continue to translate
Anthropological titles into Bahasa Indonesia. The first of these translations was published
earlier this year and tells the story of the Indonesian Labor Movement in its post-colonial
beginning. The book, Menelisik Perburuhan Indonesia: Analisa Gerakan Ekonomi Politik
1950-1961. (By Iskandar Tejasukmana. Jakarta. 2012.) I am currently translating a book
from Indonesian into English focusing on the experiences of the PRD activists
imprisoned under Suharto. I wrote about the problems in this Prison since Suharto’s fall
and the skyrocketing HIV levels in the prison for the Department of Health in the World
Bank of Jakarta. I continue to write academic articles and translate studies into
Indonesian or English from Indonesian. I read and write continuously and hope to be of
service to the US government or research bodies here or abroad. I hope you will look kindly upon my
application.