Category Archives: Job Openings

ISA Publications Committee looking for a Social Media Manager

The International Sociological Association’s Publications Committee is looking for a Social Media Manager. We have really little time to fill the position and deadline is approaching soon (Dec 18th)

I kindly request you disseminate the CFA among your contacts and potential candidates

https://www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imgen/866-isa-social-media-manager.pdf

ECR (including PhD students) and colleagues from under-represented regions are particularly welcome. If you could identify someone who has the experience and the stamina to join the team, please encourage them to apply.

I will be glad to answer any queries the potential candidates may have. Please ask them to contact me directly at eloisamartin@hotmail.com .

Thanks a lot!
Stay safe and healthy!

Dr. Eloísa Martín
Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University
Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (on leave)
Vice-President for Publications, International Sociological Association (ISA)
Chair, ISA Human Rights Committee

ISAGRAM: Issue 189, November 2020

Some Research Committees, Working and Thematic
Groups opened a new Call for Abstracts
Submission deadline: November 12, 2020, 24:00 GMT

VIII ISA Worldwide Competition for Junior
Sociologists

International Sociological Association
Submissions: March 31, 2021

ISA Award for Excellence in Research and
Practice

International Sociological Association
Submissions: May 30, 2021

GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY AND THE
CORONAVIRUS
–Publications
–Webinars

CONFERENCES

 Social and Political Constitution of the Economy
International Max Planck Research School, Germany
March 24-26, 2021
Submissions: November 8, 2020

Comparative Studies in Modern Society: Balkans
in European and Global Context
Albanian Sociological Association
University of Prizren Ukshin Hoti, Kosovo
March 19-20, 2021
Abstracts: January 19, 2021

FELLOWSHIPS

Postdoctoral Fellowships
Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”
University of Konstanz, Germany
Applications: December 13, 2020

 Doctoral Fellowship on Coping with Instability
in Market Societies
Max Planck Sciences Po Center
Paris, France
Applications: January 21, 2021

PUBLICATIONS

 Managerial Culture and Work Identity in
Education Systems
Call for papers
Special issue of Sociologia del lavoro
Deadline: December 15, 2020

Reconstructing Social Space: Spatial Dynamics
through Gendered, Cultural and Emotional
Lenses
Call for papers
Deadline: December 20, 2020

Pandemic Politics
Call for papers
Special Issue of Acta Academica
Submissions: February 28, 2021

Demographic Aspects of the COVID-19
Pandemic and its Consequences
Call for papers
Special issue of the Vienna Yearbook of
Population Research
Submissions: March 31, 2021

JOB OPENINGS

Lecturer of Sociology
Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology and
Criminology
Troy University, USA
Applications: Open till the position is filled.

 Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto, Canada
Applications: November 23, 2020

 Associate Professor or Professor of Urban
Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto, Canada
Applications: November 23, 2020

 2 Associate Researchers on Sustainability
National Autonomous University of Mexico,
Mexico
Applications: November 26, 2020

AASR September Newsletter

The Call for Paper for the 45th Annual Conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) is now open. Submission for abstracts is open till 31 October 2020. Please check out our website for more information. We look forward to seeing you there.

Call for Papers:

Conferences
36th ISSR/SISR ‘Religion in Global/Local Perspectives: Diffusion, Migration, Transformation’ Conference, 12-15 July 2021, Taipei, Taiwan. Call for sessions: 15 July to 15 September 2020. Call for papers: 1 October to 15 November 2020. More info. 

A Continuing Legacy of Persian Poetry and Music, Australian National University, 27 November 2020. Submission deadline 20 September 2020. More info. 

3rd ANU Religion Conference – Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy. Canberra, 8-10 December 2021 (new date). Proposal deadline 21 May 2021. More info.  

Publications
Call for Chapters: Exploring multilingualism, religion and spirituality in Australian life. Deadline 15 September 2020. 

Call for paper: Religions‘ special issue: “Pandemic, Religion and Non-religion”. Deadline 31 August 2020. 

Call for papers on Religions’ special issue: ‘Religion, Law and Politics‘. Deadline 18 December 2020. 

Call for papers: Special Issue on “Historizing Islamophobia”. Deadline February 2021. 
Virtual Events
Please note some activities from IAHR that may be of interest:
1. Virtual Book Fair 

2. The IAHR webinar: “Reflections on the Study of Religion in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Past, Present, and Prospect”Roundtable participants, in order of speaking: Profs. Paul Morris, Will Sweetman, John Shaver, and Ben Schonthal. Chair: Prof. Ann Taves (IAHR Vice-President)
Time: Sep 16, Wed, 8:00PM-9:30PM GMT  (=Sep 17, 08:00AM in Auckland, New Zealand)
https://otago.zoom.us/j/99875715215?pwd=eVltVHJZT1UwN0NVNWxkNGVIc0dUZz09
Meeting ID: 998 7571 5215, Passcode: 882084

3. The IAHR-WSN webinar: “Announcing a New IAHR Women Scholars Network Webinar Series”Presenters: Profs. Rosalind Hackett, Morny Joy (founders), Jenny Berglund, Jay Johnston (outgoing coordinators), Milda Ališauskienė, Amy Allocco, (incoming coordinators)Program:Introducing the IAHR-WSNPresentation of founders and coordinatorsPlanned future activitiesSuggestions from members on future activitiesQuestions & Answers
Time: Sep 21, Mon, 2:00 PM-3:00PM GMT
https://zoom.us/j/94932973049?pwd=Rm5iYk10SDdLaTk2dTdrS0lqZU1QZz09
Meeting ID: 949 3297 3049, Passcode: 465973
Grant/PhD/Job Opportunities:
Research Fellow in Ecotheology / Philosophy of Religion, University of Oslo Faculty of Theology

PhD Position in Framing of Apocrypha in Coptic Manuscripts, University of Oslo The Faculty of Theology
Latest Publications:
Cusack, Carole M. (2020), ‘Anne Hamilton-Byrne and the Family: Charisma, Criminality, and Media in the Construction of an Australian ‘Cult’ Leader‘, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 24(1): 31-54. 

Cusack, Carole M. (2020), ‘The Enneagram: G. I. Gurdjieff’s Esoteric Symbol‘, Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 20(1): 31-54. 
 
Cusack, Carole M. (2020), ‘Leaving New Religious Movements’, in Daniel Enstedt, Göran Larsson, and Teemu T. Mantsinen (eds), Handbook of Leaving Religion, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 231-241. 

Cusack, Carole M. (2020), ‘Esoteric Tourism in Scotland: Rosslyn Chapel, The Da Vinci Code, and the Appeal of the ‘New Age’’, in Jonathan M. Wooding and Lorna Barrow (eds), Prophecy, Memory and Fate in the Early and Medieval Celtic World, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies, Sydney University Press, 247-270. 

Cusack, Carole M. (2020), ‘Fiction and the Memory of ‘Cultic Violence’: Charisma, Power and Gender in Peoples Temple and the Manson Family’, New Literary Observer, No. 163 (Russian). 

Kim, David W. (ed)(2020) New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Sociocultural Alternatives. Rowman & Littlefield. 

Rane, Halim et al (2020), ‘Islam in Australia: A National Survey of Muslim Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents’, Religions, 11, 419.
 
Milani, Milad (2020), ‘The “Sufism” of Monsieur Ibrahim’, Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith, Routledge 9781138615038.

Milani, Milad (2020), ‘Shariati, Ali’, The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Sage Publications 9781473942202.

Milani, Milad (2020), ‘Neo-Sufism’, The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Sage Publications 9781473942202.

Milani, Milad (2020), ‘Sufism’, The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Sage Publications 9781473942202.

Trompf, G. and Milani, Milad (2019), ‘From “Zurvanism” to Mazdak’, The Gnostic World, Routledge 9781138673939.

Milani, Milad (2019), ‘Classic Sufism and Gnosis’, The Gnostic World, Routledge 9781138673939.

ASA Job Bank: Research Associate and Visiting Faculty

The following new job listing has been posted in the ASA Job Bank and may be of interest to section members:

Job ID: 16471
Institution: Harvard Divinity School
Department: Women’s Studies in Religion Program
Title: Research Associate and Visiting Faculty
Position/Rank: Academic Positions: Assistant/Associate Professor, Academic Positions: Full Professor, Academic Positions: Lecturer
Areas/Special Programs: Sex and Gender , Religion

For additional information on this position (including how to apply), visit the ASA Job Bank at http://jobbank.asanet.org.

Job Opening: Research Manager – Chaplaincy Innovation Lab

The following new job listing has been posted in the ASA Job Bank and may be of interest to RC22 members:

Job ID: 16410
Institution: Brandeis University
Department: Department of Sociology – Chaplaincy Innovation Lab
Title: Research Manager
Position/Rank: Sociological Practice/Applied/Other: Other
Areas/Special Programs: Open to All Specialty Areas, Open to All Specialty Areas

For additional information on this position (including how to apply), visit the ASA Job Bank at http://jobbank.asanet.org.

Job Opening: Financial and Grants Administrator – Chaplaincy Innovation Lab

The following new job listing has been posted in the ASA Job Bank and may be of interest to RC22 members:

Job ID: 16411
Institution: Brandeis University
Department: Department of Sociology – Chaplaincy Innovation Lab
Title: Financial and Grants Administrator
Position/Rank: Sociological Practice/Applied/Other: Other
Areas/Special Programs: Open to All Specialty Areas

For additional information on this position (including how to apply), visit the ASA Job Bank at http://jobbank.asanet.org.

Notes from the Australian Association for the Study of Religion June Newsletter

  Publications

Events:
Centre of Islamic Studies and Civilisation’s Islamic Studies Research Colloquium via Zoom, 26 June 2020 at 3pm-5pm. RSVP by 22 June 2020.

PhD/Job Opportunities:

PhD funding related to Islam, Switzerland

There is a PhD position in the project “Shaping the legal consciousness of intersectional subjects: accommodating, negotiating and contesting regulations on Islamic veiling in France, Switzerland and the U.K.”

Details in English and French, see below.

Bonjour, 

Par la présente, j’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la mise au concours d’un poste de doctorant·e FNS pour le 1er septembre 2020 sous la direction d’Eléonore Lépinard : 

Doctorant·e FNS dans le domaine de la sociologie/des études genre – annonce en français

Doctoral student SNSF in sociology/gender studies -annonce en anglais

Le délai de candidature est fixé au 15 juin à minuit.

Open position : PhD student in sociology of religion, diversity, and ethnicity

The Institute for the Social Sciences of Religions (ISSR) at the University of Lausanne is looking for a PhD student in sociology of religion, diversity, and ethnicity.
The selected person will work in a small motivated team on the creation and administration of the second wave of the National Congregation Study Switzerland (NCS II). This is a projet funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on the diversity of local religious groups in Switzerland, across all religions, including both autochthonous and immigration groups. Collaborating partners are based at the University of Basel (CH), University of Strasbourg (F) and Duke University (USA).
Deadline for applications: June 30, 2020

Further details and submission of applications:
https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=en%5fUS&career_job_req_id=15843&selected_lang=en_US&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&_s.crb=QWU6YYahmY1ko%2fLzVUCsAC6tEV4%3d

Only applications through the website will be taken into account. Thank you for your understanding