Postdoctoral positions opening
The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality
Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/coe/index-en.html
The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality (CSSI) invites
applications from excellent scholars for postdoctoral positions. The number of
the positions will be one to three depending on our budget for the next fiscal
year. The center pursues development of new theories and methodologies on
social stratification and inequality with emphasis on studies of rational
choice theory, minorities (including gender stratification and inequality),
East Asia, and fairness. Faculty members of the center are sociologists, social
psychologists, cultural anthropologists, a religious anthropologist, a
historian, and an economist, and they study social stratification and
inequality from various viewpoints.
Applicants should hold doctoral degrees or show academic performance equivalent
to holders of doctoral degrees. They should have a good command of English.
Postdoctoral fellows of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science are not
eligible for this application.
The successful candidates will be expected to work under the supervision of the
faculty members of the center for a one-year period from April 1st, 2006. (The
date is negotiable.) Though the initial contract is one-year period, the
contract will be extended for one more year. The salary of a successful
candidate will be 270,000 – 350,000 yen per month depending on his/her academic
career. Travel and housing allowances will be paid to those who are eligible for
them. Grants for excellent research projects proposed by the successful
candidates will be provided. The center also academically and financially
supports their presentations at international conferences.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a list of their presentations and
publications, a research plan at the CSSI (less than 1,500 words), each copy of
three major publications at most, and a letter of reference to:
Dr. Yoshimichi Sato, Director
Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality
Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University
27-1, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576 JAPAN
Phone: +81-22-795-6036 Fax: +81-22-795-5972
The deadline for completed applications is January 31, 2006.
All inquiries concerning the application should be addressed to Yoshimichi Sato
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