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Haverford | Associate Professor and Director of Health Studies

Published On: Sep 24 2025

Deadline: Oct 27, 2025

We seek to make an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor, with tenure, in the health humanities or critical social sciences of health, including but not limited to medical anthropology and the history of medicine. We invite applications from scholars working on a wide range of topics, including infectious disease, mental health, sexual and reproductive health, non-communicable disease, environmental health, disability, cancer, substance use, medical education, the healing professions, health systems and bureaucracies, political economy of health, therapeutics and medical technologies,...

Princeton | Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities

Published On: May 22 2025

Deadline: Oct 31, 2025

Princeton University seeks to appoint a distinguished humanist whose work is related to the environment for the 2026-2027 academic year. The on-campus position will provide salary plus benefits for the academic year. The funds may be used to supplement a sabbatical leave. The position is supported by the High Meadows Environmental Institute – the interdisciplinary center of environmental research, education, and outreach at Princeton University. Persons appointed will hold the title of the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities. Applicants sho...

U Oklahoma | Assistant Professor of Anthropology-Medical Anthropology

Published On: Oct 18 2025

Deadline: Nov 1, 2025

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma (OU) invites applications for a 9-month tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor with a start date of August 16, 2026. The department seeks a broadly trained medical anthropologist able to contribute to both teaching and research within our Human Health and Biology and Sociocultural Anthropology programs. The successful candidate will participate in our undergraduate programs (B.A and B.S) and graduate programs (M.A and Ph.D), including our Masters in Applied Medical Anthropology. The position is open to any region...

Santa Clara | Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology

Published On: Sep 24 2025

Deadline: Nov 1, 2025

The Department of Anthropology at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university, seeks applicants for a full-time tenure-track position in biological anthropology. We seek a teacher-scholar with an active field and/or lab-based research program at the intersection of infectious disease, immunology, and/or human growth and development. Applicants should be theoretically grounded and empirically engaged in biological anthropology, with a commitment to community collaboration.

Princeton | HMEI Research and Teaching Laboratory Manager

Published On: Sep 24 2025

Deadline: Nov 1, 2025

The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) at Princeton University is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Research and Teaching Laboratory Manager to oversee its Environmental Studies undergraduate research and teaching laboratories, particularly in the key disciplines of Oceanography, Biogeochemical Cycles, and Climate Systems. The Research and Teaching Laboratory Manager will be appointed at the rank of Associate Professional Specialist or Professional Specialist, depending on qualifications and experience.

New Book | The Smartification of Everything: Critical Perspectives in Sciences, Arts, and Society

Published On: Oct 18 2025

From the smart phone to the smart home, smartness has become an almost inescapable reality of everyday life. Supposedly intelligent, interconnected technologies, smart systems have taken on their own forms of life, and it is no longer easy to determine who these systems benefit  and what their long-term social and ethical implications may be. In twenty contributions spanning the social sciences, humanities, and the arts, The Smartification of Everything offers a deep dive into a variety of studies that critically interrogate smartification processes and systems.The book is edited by exper...

Ohio State | Assistant Professor in Digital Cultures and Ethnography

Published On: Sep 24 2025

Deadline: Nov 10, 2025

The Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Digital Cultures and Ethnography. The field of specialization is open, and we welcome scholars whose work reflects the department’s commitment to critical, interdisciplinary approaches to culture and society. We are especially interested in candidates whose research engages with contemporary debates in digital cultures, ethnography, and artificial intelligence.

New Book | Infrastructures of Reality: Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies

Published On: Oct 18 2025

This open-access book seeks to critically position the 'Metaverse' as a tripartite endeavour undertaken by large technology companies to virtualize, datafy, and infrastructuralize society, particularly on the levels of spatiality and embodiment. On the one hand, metaversal technologies render space in virtual form or overlay digital layers onto pre-existing physical spaces. On the other hand, metaversal technologies not only seek to extend or expand our embodied senses and emplace our bodies and identities in virtual spaces, but they also seek to virtualize and capture our behaviours and actio...

New Book | The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life

Published On: Sep 24 2025

In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea? As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating the discovery of countless new species. Sorting through the implications of this strange paradox, Stacy Alaimo explores the influence this newfound intimacy with the deep sea might have on our broader relationship to the nonhuman world. While many images of these abyssal creatures circulate as shallow c...

CfP | Cultures of Waste

Published On: Oct 18 2025

Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world’s most complex and urgent environmental, cultural, political, and social challenges. Cultures of Waste explores how waste—both material and symbolic—reflects and perpetuates global environmental, health, and social injustices through interconnected societal, political, and economic systems, offering interdisciplinary insights into how these dynamics might be understood and addressed. Key Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline...

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