Faculty of Sociology

Position: Assistant Professor, or higher.

Deadline: December 14, 2014.

Reference number: SOC015

The School of Sociology at the St. Petersburg Campus of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) invites applications for the position(s) of Assistant (or Associate) Professor in Sociology (full-time, tenure-track). The Faculty welcomes applications in all areas of sociology, especially those demonstrating strength in empirical research, but has particular interest in further strengthening the following areas: health and demography; urban studies; crime and delinquency; data analysis and quantitative methods; social network analysis; and computational social science.

HSE is an ambitious, dynamic and internationally oriented Russian research university committed to entering the top 100 global universities and therefore providing unique academic opportunities for its staff. The St Petersburg campus is developing rapidly: it has a growing core of international permanent and visiting faculty, provides for a vibrant multi and interdisciplinary research environment, offers courses and degree programmes in English and in 2016 will be relocating to a new, centrally located, purpose built campus.

St. Petersburg itself has a rich cultural and social life and offers a comfortable, safe and engaging living environment for international scholars.

Employment conditions:

• Internationally competitive compensation package, 13% flat income tax rate and other benefits
• Emphasis on producing high quality research outputs
• Generous travel support grants provided by the university’s Centre for Advanced Studies.
• Light teaching load

Requirements:

• Recent Ph.D. in Sociology or related field
• Fluent English (knowledge of Russian is not required)
• A proven potential for conducting high-quality empirical research, resulting in internationally peer-reviewed publication

Generally appointments will be made for an initial three-year period and upon successful completion of an interim review, contracts would normally be extended for a further three years until the tenure review.

Please provide an up-to-date CV, a statement of research interest and a recent research paper via the online application form. At least 2 letters of reference should be forwarded directly to the attention of the CAS Academic Supervisor Martin Gilman at cas@hse.ru no later than  December 14, 2014.