Assistant Professor (Sociology)

The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB) invites qualified persons to apply for two (2) tenure-track assistant professor positions to join our faculty beginning September 1, 2025. Candidates for the first position must have research and teaching strengths in Criminology & Criminal Justice with an open secondary area of specialization. Candidates for the second position must have research and teaching strengths in Criminology & Criminal Justice with a secondary specialization in the Sociology of Race & Ethnicity. Candidates for both positions should have an emerging/established research program with the potential to generate external funding, a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring, the capacity to expand diversity initiatives on campus, and enhance the university's commitment to public service.

Our department serves a large undergraduate program with majors in Sociology and Criminology & Criminal Justice. We also offer graduate programs including a Master's and PhD in Sociology. Find out more about the Department at http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/sociology. The normal teaching load for tenure-track faculty at UMB is 2-2 over the academic year. Candidates for both positions are expected to teach courses across our undergraduate and graduate programs, including Crime & Communities, Deviance & Social Control, Juvenile Delinquency, Punishment & Corrections, Sociology of Law, and Violence in Society. Candidates for the second position should also be prepared or willing to teach courses in Asian, Black, Indigenous, or Latinx Sociology.

UMass Boston is a high research activity and doctoral-granting and community-engaged university. There are many collaborative opportunities for scholars engaged in criminal and racial justice policy research via the John W. McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies, the Institute for Asian American Studies, the Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture, and the multi-campus UMass Law program.

We will begin reviewing applications on October 1, 2024. Applicants will need to submit a brief cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a teaching/research statement by following the link below. Appointment requires completion of a doctoral degree in Sociology or a closely related discipline no later than August 31, 2025.

https://employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us/listing/

UMass Boston is the third most diverse university in the country, with more than 60% of our undergraduate students coming from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome.

Given this context, please articulate how your approach to teaching, advising, and mentoring:

• will engage with the diverse life experiences of students.
• will reflect an appreciation for the ways in which students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting and will reflect how your own life experiences and background shapes your practices and commitments as an instructor, mentor, researcher, and scholar.

UMass Boston is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact HRDirect@umb.edu or 617-287-5150.