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:
Assistant/Associate Professor Positions:
- Montclair State University (Social Work)
- Quinnipiac University (Sociology)
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Criminal Justice)
- University of Central Florida (Sociology)
Lecturers, Full Professors & Other Opportunities
- Stanford University (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- University of Bayreuth (Research Associate)
- University of West Georgia (Limited Term Instructor)
Assistant/Associate Professor
Assistant Professor (Sociology)
Institution: University of Central Florida
Department: Sociology
Job Description: The Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in the College of Sciences (COS) invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-earning assistant professor anticipated to begin August 2025. We seek candidates with scholarly expertise in medical sociology who have an active research agenda and a commitment to effective teaching. The ideal candidate will have research and teaching interests in one or more of the following areas: (1) inequalities in health and medicine, (2) health outcomes as they relate to space and/or place, and/or (3) health, science, and technology. We are especially interested in a candidate who can contribute through their research, teaching, and service to the excellence of our academic community and foster an environment in which faculty, staff, and students from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and personal experiences are welcomed and can thrive.
Posted: 12/16/2024
Run Date: 02/06/2025
Assistant Professor (Criminal Justice)
Institution: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Department: Criminal Justice
Contact Name: Bob Lytle
Contact E-mail: rdlytle@ualr.edu
Job Description: The University of Arkansas Little Rock (UA Little Rock) School of Criminal Justice and Criminology invites applications for at least three (3) tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin August 2025. We seek candidates with a PhD (or completed all PhD requirements before employment commences) in Criminology, Criminal Justice, or a closely related field. Applicants who are ABD and are close to completion will also be considered, but the PhD should be earned prior to employment.
The area of specialization is open. The position includes teaching in face-to-face and online formats. Candidates are expected to (1) work positively with faculty, staff, students, and the community, (2) teach across all academic programs, (3) conduct and disseminate scholarly research, (4) mentor undergraduate and graduate students, and (5) serve the school, the university, and the community.
Posted: 01/09/2025
Run Date: 03/09/2025
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 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
Other Opportunities
Postdoctoral Researcher (Gender and Race)
Institution: Stanford University
Department: VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab
Job Description: The VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University generates foundational research to advance women's leadership by diagnosing barriers, developing and evaluating interventions to get beyond barriers, and disseminating research-based solutions by bridging the gap between research and practice. Core to this mission is supporting the next generation of gender scholars - training them in solutions-oriented research that has a positive social impact in and beyond the academy, and advancing their careers and leadership. To begin in the Fall of 2025, The VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab is now accepting applications to a two-year postdoctoral research scholar program.
The VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab is seeking a diverse pool of applicants who have expertise on gender and race in organizations, wish to join a dynamic, collaborative research community, and are interested in developing skills needed to advance solutions to social problems through scholarly research and communicate research findings to diverse audiences, including non-academic audiences. We particularly encourage applications from a broad diversity of PhD-granting institutions.
The postdoctoral research scholar program provides time for scholars to pursue their own research agenda, and based on their expertise and interests, the postdoctoral research scholar will also work in collaboration with Lab-affiliated researchers on Lab data to draft a research paper for peer-review. The postdoctoral research scholar will also engage with the Lab community, attending all Lab meetings and workshops. Other opportunities for engagement could include mentoring graduate and/or undergraduate students or working on research translation pieces for public audiences.
Posted: 12/12/2024
Run Date: 02/20/2025
Research Associate (Geography)
Institution: University of Bayreuth
Department: Geography, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences
Job Description: The Chair of Economic Geography, Department of Geography, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences at the University of Bayreuth, is seeking to fill the position of Research Associate (m/f/d) (Ph.D. student or post-doc for habilitation) with remuneration according to pay group 13 TV-L on a fixed-term basis. The position is initially limited to 1 + 3 years in the case of a doctorate, and up to 6 years in the case of a post-doc position. The scope of the position is 100 per cent of the regular weekly working hours of a full-time employee. The Chair of Economic Geography stands for a theoretically grounded research and teaching agenda that critically questions the ideas, paths, possibilities, limits and practices of sustainable regional development in the context of global challenges such as increasing socio-spatial inequality, the looming climate crisis and the progressive marketisation and technologisation of social, economic and ecological areas. A more recent focus of the Chair is also on critical geovisualisation and critical statistics.
Posted: 01/14/2025
Run Date: 02/20/2025
Limited Term Instructor (Sociology)
Institution: University of West Georgia
Department: Sociology
Job Description: The Sociology Program at the University of West Georgia (UWG) invites applications for a one-year, Limited Term Instructor position starting August 2025. A Master’s degree in Sociology or related field is required at the time of appointment. Successful candidates need a strong commitment to teaching both introductory classes and topical courses online and face-to-face, including large sections and sections taught at the UWG Newnan campus. The course load will be four to five classes per semester.
Posted: 01/17/2025
Run Date: 02/28/2025
