The Department of Sociology at Queen's University, Ontario, is looking for a Queen's National Scholar (QNS) in Intersectional Surveillance Studies, specializing in Big Data and Social Inequality, at Assistant or Associate
Professor level.
Please note that due to the particular requirements of the QNS process, this position has a closing date of December 15th.
The start date is negotiable, but could be any time from July 1st 2018.
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Let me say a few less bureaucratically official things about this position from my point of view in the Surveillance Studies Centre (SSC).
This is a unique position.
Surveillance Studies is changing and growing, and SSC wants to encourage this. We want Surveillance Studies to be diverse and focus on equality, social justice and human rights. We want the person who gets this job
to exemplfy this in their work and in themselves. We want an excellent scholar, who would be an active member of both the Department of Sociology and the SSC, but we aren't looking for another scholar who works (or looks) just like myself or the current director,
Professor David Lyon. We actively encourage application from women, indigenous people, scholars of colour and anyone who fits into what Canada calls 'equity-seeking groups'.
This is a position in a Sociology department, but we would not discourage critical scholars from cognate disciplines, and certainly not those who cross disciplinary boundaries. If you've got qualifications in and strong
publications on surveillance and data issues relating to human rights, injustice or inequality in Geography, Anthropology, Science & Technology Studies, Media & Communications or Criminology as well as Sociology, you would be very well-placed to apply.
This position is also envisaged to lead to the eventual Directorship of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's after Professor Lyon. We want someone who supports the goals of openness, excellent scholarship and
care for students and colleagues that all us involved in Surveillance Studies have tried to cultivate, whether at SSC, through
Surveillance & Society and the Surveillance Studies Network and in further afield. The person applying should imagine that they will have a significant opportunity to help shape the future of the SSC, and Surveillance Studies.
Is this you? Could it be you?
We hope so!
David Murakami Wood
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies
Department of Sociology
Queen's University
Kingston ON
Canada
