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Tenure Track Assistant Professor

July 6th, 2010 The Department of Sociology at Yale University intends to make a tenure track assistant professor appointment beginning July 1, 2011. The department will consider all areas of the discipline, but has a preference for applications in the areas of race and ethnicity, urban sociology, urban ethnography, family, health, migration, poverty and inequality.  Yale University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.  Yale values diversity among its students, staff and faculty, and strongly encourages applications from women and underrepresented minorities.  Candidates should send a letter of application, CV, a brief writing sample, and three letters of reference to the Chair of the Search Committee, Professor Elijah Anderson, Department of Sociology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208265, New Haven, CT 06520-8265. Review of applications will begin September 15, 2010.


Yale University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and affirmatively seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons of diverse backgrounds. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.