[Jobs] U Minnesota

Leora Lawton llawton at berkeley.edu
Mon Apr 16 09:23:23 PDT 2018


*The **University of Minnesota <https://twin-cities.umn.edu/>** invites
applications for a full-time faculty member at the Associate or Full
Professor level with interests in demography and population studies* who
can actively and innovatively advance the missions of the University,
the Minnesota
Population Center <https://pop.umn.edu/> (MPC), and its affiliated colleges
and academic units. This is an open-discipline/area search. The tenure home
will be determined based on the candidate’s background/interests, in
consultation with the appropriate colleges and academic units, and in
accordance with University policy. One-half of teaching and service
obligations will be fulfilled in MPC as part of the population studies
program.



The successful candidate will: (1) have a PhD in a relevant academic
discipline; (2)continue and expand their own independent research
initiatives, as well as seek out and develop new interdisciplinary
collaborations, especially with early-career scholars; (3) have a strong
record of obtaining external funding (e.g., from NIH, NSF, or other public
and private sources) to support their independent and collaborative
research initiatives; (4) be an exceptional mentor, advisor, and teacher to
post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students in and outside of
demography and population studies; (5) have a track record of working with
diverse individuals, groups, and communities as defined by the University
of Minnesota’s Office for Equity and Diversity <https://diversity.umn.edu/>;
(6) have experience leading academic departments, research centers, and/or
more targeted research and training programs and be willing to assume
similar leadership roles within MPC.  The ideal candidate will also be
eager to exploit synergies with the IPUMS data projects and help to build
MPC’s interdisciplinary graduate and postdoctoral training program
<https://pop.umn.edu/gradstudent-training/program>.
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