Thursday, January 14, 2010

American Sociological Association - Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - American Sociological Association, Various Locations

The American Sociological Association invites applications for six two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships. This Postdoctoral Fellowship is intended for scholars who are interested in working on understanding the economic crisis and its social impacts on such areas as race and gender relations, employment, housing, education, health, culture, migration, and politics. In addition, research can focus on the social impacts of government and private efforts to address and regulate the crisis, including the sociology of finance and markets, organizational theory, and the sociology of law.

Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), this fellowship program will fund one Postdoctoral fellow each at the following six universities:

* Cornell University
* Harvard University
* Princeton University
* Stanford University
* University of California-Berkeley
* University of Wisconsin-Madison

Complete job description and application instructions are available here. (http://www.asanet.org/funding/Postdoctoral_Fellowship.cfm)

Deadline: February 12, 2010