Job Opportunities
The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) provides a free career center for members and non-members to browse current job opportunities related to sociology. Please remember to contact each employer individually if you would like more information about a job listing. SSSP hopes you find this service valuable.
Jobs are posted by deadline date. Those with the closest deadline will be posted first. Please refer to the table of contents below for a list of active job postings by category:
Positions:
- Michigan State University (Criminal Justice)
- Montclair State University (Social Work)
- Northeastern University (Sociology and Anthropology)
- Quinnipiac University (Sociology)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (Criminal Justice)
Assistant Teaching Professor (Sociology)
Institution: Quinnipiac University
Job Description: The Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences is inviting applications for a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology. We are seeking a student-centered candidate with demonstrated experience teaching courses in the sociology of health and medicine. Additionally, expertise in areas that complement our programmatic strengths--such as social inequality, race/ethnicity, and/or gender--is highly desirable. All candidates must provide evidence of effective and dynamic teaching. The successful candidate will join a vibrant department offering an undergraduate major and minor in Sociology, minors in Gerontology and Anthropology, and a 3+2 dual-degree program with an MSW. Our department also provides essential courses for students in other majors, as well as those who are designated pre-medicine. We look forward to welcoming a dedicated educator who will contribute to our department's continued success and growth. The position will begin August 2025.
Posted: 09/24/2024
Run Date: 03/24/2025
Assistant, Associate, or Full Teaching Professor
Institution: Northeastern University
Department: Sociology and Anthropology, CSSH
Contact Name: Matthew O. Hunt
Contact E-mail: m.hunt@northeastern.edu
Job Description: The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its nine tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, the college collaborates across the university, the Northeastern network, and partners around the globe. We are strongly committed to fostering excellence through diversity and enthusiastically welcome nominations and applications from members of groups underrepresented in academia. Successful faculty in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities will be dynamic and innovative scholars with a record of research and teaching excellence and a commitment to improved equity, diversity, and inclusion. Strong candidates for this position will have the expertise, knowledge, and skills to build their research, pedagogy, and curriculum in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment. Review of applications will begin on January 31, 2025 and will continue until the position is filled.
Posted: 01/24/25
Run Date: 03/24/25
Visiting Term Faculty Instructor or Assistant Professor (Criminal Justice)
Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University
Department: L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs Criminal Justice Program
Job Description: The VCU L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs Criminal Justice Program invites applications for a full-time visiting term (teaching) faculty position. We are seeking an up to 2-year non-tenure eligible visiting faculty at the rank instructor or assistant professor. This hire will be for one year beginning August 2025, with the potential for a second year. Candidates with significant career and professional work experience within the criminal justice system will be highly considered. We are specifically seeking an instructor who demonstrates a profound commitment to high-quality teaching and adds to the strength and diversity of our faculty. Successful candidates will have expertise in criminal justice and criminology, and have the ability to teach a variety of core undergraduate and graduate courses, including courts/sentencing and corrections courses. We are interested in faculty who will demonstrate through teaching, creative expression, and/or public engagement, the richness of diversity in the learning experience through integrated intersectional approaches and perspectives.
Posted: 03/12/2025
Run Date: 03/25/2025
Assistant Professor-Fixed Term (Criminal Justice)
Institution: Michigan State University
Department: Criminal Justice
Job Description: The School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) at Michigan State University invites applications for up to two 9-month fixed-term teaching positions in our baccalaureate and master’s degree programs at the Assistant Professor rank beginning as early as January 1, 2024 and continuing until all positions are filled. The position is for one academic year, with the strong possibility of renewal based on performance. Michigan State University is the pioneer land-grant institution located in East Lansing, Michigan. The SCJ is a national leader in criminal justice and criminology research and education. Housed in the College of Social Science, the SCJ has 23 faculty members, including several with joint appointments in academic units and centers across the university. Currently, there are over 1,200 students enrolled in the SCJ’s doctoral, masters, and baccalaureate degree programs. The School's faculty is committed to excellence in teaching, research, and scholarship befitting a major research university. True to the pioneering land-grant mission of Michigan State University, the School has a strong and proud tradition of both advancing and translating knowledge into practice and policy through engagement with local, state, national and international partners in both public and private sectors. The School’s faculty, academic specialists, and outreach specialists are highly active in securing and implementing external grants and contracts to advance its mission.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach three courses per semester or a total of six courses for the academic year, engage in service activities in the university, and to advance student learning in directed readings, independent study, or mentorship if assigned.
Posted: 02/17/2025
Run Date: 05/17/2025
Assistant Professor (Social Work)
Institution: Montclair State University
Department: Social Work and Child Advocacy
Job Description: Join the Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy at Montclair State University where teaching, research, and practice are intertwined to help create professionals who embody inclusive practices, serve their communities, and support all types of justice in their activities. The vibrant department has 16 faculty total, with 10 of these tenure or tenure-track faculty and 6 of these Teaching faculty.
We invite applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin September 2025. Area of research and practice specialization(s) is open. The department offers minors in Child Advocacy and Policy as well as Social Work, a BA and MA in Child Advocacy and Policy, and an MSW with a concentration in clinical practice children, youth, and families. Although the program at the MSW level is relatively new, due to the success and insight of the faculty, the program is developing a fully online program to be able to meet the needs and serve students who may best learn in this sort of approach. The responsibilities of the current position include an active scholarly agenda (with the expectation of the pursuit of external funding) and teaching with principal assignment in the department’s Social Work programs, but with the expectation to teach in the Child Advocacy and Policy programs, as well. Joining this team would be ideal for candidates with demonstrated excellence in teaching and experience teaching in a multicultural environment.
Posted: 11/25/2024
Run Date: 05/25/2025
