Poste anthropologie/sociologie non occidentale - Amsterdam
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 ( p(point)t(point)vanrooden(at)uva(point)nl )
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
(c(point)garofalo(at)uva(point)nl)
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/
