The Department of Justice offers funding opportunities to enhance community safety and trust and improve the criminal, civil, and juvenile justice systems; assist victims of crime; provide training and technical assistance to state, local, Tribal, and territorial government agencies, as well as to community-based organizations; and conduct research and collect national statistics.

Search funding opportunities on the DOJ website.

The Pew Research Center in Washington, DC, is offering graduate student internships  for approximately eight weeks during the summer of 2024. Social science graduate students with an interest in religion, demography and/or international research are strongly encouraged to apply.

You will assist demography of religion team members on research related to the religious composition and demographic characteristics of religious groups in every nation for 2010 and 2020.

This position can be 100% remote. Candidates must be able to legally work in the United States and reside in one of the 17 places the Center is set up as an employer. Pay for this position is $25/hour for 300 hours (about 8 weeks at 37.5 hours/week).

For complete details, see the Pew career center online.

The University of California Washington Program (UCDC)  is looking for experienced educators who can teach in the Humanities, Arts, Sociology, Urban Studies, and Ethnic Studies. They are especially looking for classes that take advantage of our location in the nation’s capital and offer experiential learning opportunities to students.

See the Call for Applications online (PDF)

Colorado State University seeks a collaborative and visionary leader to serve as its next Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. The CLA Dean will bring the land-grant mission to life by utilizing the transformative power of the arts, humanities, and social sciences to provide educational, research, and experiential opportunities that create real-world impact for our students, faculty, and staff.

March 24 – Application deadline (full consideration)

Full details at CLA Dean Search website

The School of Public Policy (https://spp.gatech.edu/) at the Georgia Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Social Policy. Applicants will be considered at all ranks. Particular topics of research and teaching expertise include health or urban policy.

Applications will be considered beginning March 1, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.

For complete information see the online listing or contact  Dr. Cassidy Sugimoto

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship program provides opportunities for doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to deepen research knowledge and increase the study of modern foreign languages, cultural engagement, and area studies not generally included in U.S. curricula.

The FY 2024 program competition is now open. The deadline to apply is March 29, 2024. 

Full information is available through the program website

Metis Associates seeks Social Sciences Statisticians to support current and future clients’ rigorous research and evaluation needs. Clients include public school districts, higher education institutions, non-profit organizations, and other public-private entities. Qualifications are requested from doctoral-level statisticians in the behavioral or social sciences. Metis aims to identify a pool of qualified statisticians contracted on a project basis to assist with advanced statistical support, such as propensity score matching and/or other rigorous matching procedures, hierarchical linear modeling, logistic and linear regression modeling, and impact estimation.

See the job posting online at the Am Evaluation Ass'n

Northwestern University, Chicago, IL: As part of the TC CFAR, the full-time non-tenure-eligible HIV Quantitative Methodologist team scientist will provide quantitative methodology support for investigators who are conducting HIV research and are members of the TC CFAR.  The team scientist may also be able to work on other aspects of HIV quantitative research that advance sexual and gender minority health and can have interests and/or a focus in areas aligned with HIV, such as substance use, mental health, wellbeing, aging, women’s health, and other foci related to health issues affecting sexual and gender minority populations. 

See the job posting online from the Am Evaluation Ass'n

The Russell Sage Foundation, in collaboration with the Hewlett, Spencer, and William T. Grant Foundations, seeks to support innovative research on the aftermath of the 2023 Supreme Court decision striking down race-conscious college and university admissions policies. The initiative focuses on ways to promote educational attainment and economic mobility among racially, ethnically, and economically diverse groups following the court’s ruling that declared that use of race-conscious admissions policies violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and was, therefore, unconstitutional.

Submission Deadline:  April 16, 2024

Full details on the RSF website

The University of Manchester and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research are pleased to invite applications to a 3.5-year University of Manchester doctoral studentship in Social Statistics. The studentship is jointly funded by the Social Statistics Department, University of Manchester, UK, and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Germany. The studentship will be part of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science .

The application deadline is midnight (GMT) on 27th February 2024.

Full information is available on the MPIDR website.