[Air-l] position announcement

[Tricia Quitmeyer]

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
School of Justice Studies
Assistant Professor

	The interdisciplinary School of Justice Studies seeks to hire a
tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning August 16, 2002.  

The position is Information Technology, Society, and Justice.  We seek
someone whose scholarly background combines skills in computing and related
technologies with the critical study of justice in society.  The successful
candidate must be interested in the transformative and progressive aspects
of information technology, as well as its possibilities for exacerbating
injustice.    

Responsibilities for this position include conducting an active program of
research and scholarly publication, teaching alone and in teams with
colleagues in the field of Justice Studies, and service to the University,
the profession, and the community.  This position involves: 1. Working with
current faculty to enhance their capacity to use IT resources in their
teaching and research; 2. Developing and teaching two new courses, one
framed around evaluating IT as a social resource, and the other focusing on
constructing justice through information technology; 3. Teaching graduate
and undergraduate courses in the areas of the candidate's expertise.

Qualifications required: Demonstrated potential for excellence in research
and teaching and completion of the Ph.D. or doctorate in the social or
behavioral sciences or the humanities by the date of appointment.
Background or expertise in IT and society.  Demonstrated ability to work
collaboratively with faculty and students.  

Qualifications desired: Demonstrated ability to work with and critically
appraise web-based sources for justice research, including a variety of data
sets and sources, and to teach advanced information technology skills that
could include graduate statistics, qualitative data analysis, or other
analytic tools.

The School of Justice Studies is an interdisciplinary department in law and
the social sciences with areas of theoretical and empirical concentration in
social and economic justice; race, ethnicity, and marginalized groups;
American Indians and Justice; disputing and conflict management; criminal
and juvenile justice; and gender and justice.  The School is the principal
sponsor of the University-wide Ph.D./J.D. program in justice studies, law
and the social sciences, and administers the M.S. program in justice
studies, servicing approximately 100 graduate students of diverse national
origins.  There are more than 800 undergraduate Justice Studies majors.
Faculty backgrounds include but are not limited to Anthropology,
Criminology, History, Law, Political Science and Sociology.  For further
details about this program see http://www.asu.edu/copp/justice/
<http://www.asu.edu/copp/justice/> 

To apply, please send a cover letter, current curriculum vitae, a sample of
your research, and three letters of recommendation to:  Chair, Search
Committee, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University, PO Box
870403, Tempe, AZ  85287-0403.  Deadline for applications:  January 15,
2002.
AA/EOE




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