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>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>
>> The University of Amsterdam offers two posts for
>> anthropologists. If you
>> know an excellent medical anthropologist as
>> candidate, please give him or
>> her the information below.
>>
>> Best wishes, Els
>>
>>
>>
>> Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
>>
>>
>>
>> The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
>> is the largest
>> educational and research institution in the social
>> sciences in the
>> Netherlands. The Faculty serves 7,500 students in
>> numerous Bachelor's and
>> Master's programmes in Political Science, Sociology,
>> Anthropology,
>> Communication Science, Psychology, Social Geography,
>> Planning and
>> International Development Studies, and Educational
>> Sciences. The academic
>> staff is employed in education as well as research.
>> There are over 1,100
>> employees at the Faculty, which resides in a number
>> of buildings in the
>> centre of Amsterdam.
>>
>>
>>
>> The teaching of the Department of Sociology and
>> Anthropology takes place
>> within the Amsterdam Institute for Education in
>> Social Sciences (Amsterdams
>> Instituut voor Maatschappijwetenschap, AIM) and
>> within the International
>> School for Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS).
>> Its research takes place
>> within the Amsterdam School for Social Science
>> Research (ASSR).
>>
>> In teaching, the Anthropology program, apart from a
>> thorough introduction in
>> Anthropological Theories and Methods, offer the
>> possibilities of
>> specializing in the Anthropology and Sociology of
>> Asia, the Anthropology of
>> Europe, Medical Anthropology, the Anthropology of
>> Sexuality, Gender and the
>> Body, and the Anthropology of Religion.
>>
>>
>>
>> Two assistant professors of Anthropology and/or
>> Non-Western Sociology
>>
>> 38 hours per week, or 1.0 fte
>>
>>
>>
>> The new assistant professors are expected to spend
>> 60% of their time on
>> education and 40% of their time on research.
>>
>>
>>
>> Duties
>>
>> - reinforcing the broad profile of Anthropology and
>> Non-Western Sociology in
>> Amsterdam
>>
>> - developing, performing and supervising
>> anthropological and/or sociological
>> research at a high academic level
>>
>> - provide general, specialist and methodological
>> education in the Bachelor's
>> and Master's programmes of the Anthropology and
>> Non-Western Sociology
>> departments and (assist in) supervising graduate
>> students
>>
>> - obtaining, or helping to obtain, external funding
>> for research development
>>
>> - actively contributing to the development of the
>> discipline in national and
>> international context by publishing and
>> participating in national and
>> international research networks and educational
>> initiatives
>>
>>
>>
>> Profile
>>
>> - completed doctoral thesis in the field of the
>> social sciences
>>
>> - publications in international "peer reviewed"
>> periodicals and/or in books
>> published by internationally recognised presses
>>
>> - broad knowledge in the field of General
>> Anthropology and/or Non-Western
>> Sociology
>>
>> - specialist expertise in a field related to one of
>> the ASSR's research
>> clusters
>>
>> - thorough mastery of qualitative and/or
>> quantitative methods and techniques
>> of social-scientific research
>>
>> - capable to teach and motivate students at both
>> basic and advanced levels
>>
>> - in a fairly short term: perfect passive, and
>> adequate active knowledge of
>> Dutch.
>>
>>
>>
>> More information
>>
>> For more information about this position, please
>> contact the Head of the
>> Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Dr.  Peter
>> van Rooden (
>> [log in to unmask] )
>>
>> Information about the department's research can be
>> found on the website:
>> <http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/assr/index.html>
>> http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/assr/index.html
>>
>> Information about the department's education can be
>> found on the website:
>> <http://www.student.uva.nl/ca/actueel.cfm>
>> http://www.student.uva.nl/ca/actueel.cfm
>>
>>
>>
>> Appointment
>>
>>
>>
>> Depending on qualifications and experience, between
>> 3129 and 4868 Euros
>> gross per month (UD 1/2)
>>
>>
>>
>> Application
>>
>>
>>
>> Send applications within three weeks of the date of
>> this opening to C.
>> Garofalo, Office Manager, Sociology and Anthropology
>> Department,
>> Oudezijdsachterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam
>> ([log in to unmask])
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Publication date 15 March (newspaper text already
>> provided) Volkskrant,
>> NRC/Handelsblad, UvA web, job site American
>> Sociological Association,
>> www.jobs.ac.uk, Academic Transfer Suite
>>
>>
>>
>> Cost centre: 25401 (for 2/3) 25301 (for 1/3)
>>
>>
>>
>> More information about medical anthropology:
>>
>>
>>
> <http://webmail.fmg.uva.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http:// 
> studiegids.uva.n
>> l/web/uva/sgs/nl/p/83.html>
>> http://studiegids.uva.nl/web/uva/sgs/nl/p/83.html.
>>
>>  http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/assr/aids/index.html.
>>
>> http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/amma/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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