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Published On: Aug 21 2025
Deadline: Sep 1, 2025
Globally, in a world of interlocking networks, the likelihood that most residents will experience a major disaster in their lifetimes is increasing significantly. Whether caused by natural, technological, synergistic, social, cyber, or new means, disasters are becoming more complex, frequent, stronger, longer-lasting, and more devastating in their impacts. As each disaster receives only limited national attention, the extended, slow recovery process forces change and transition at all levels of society, reshaping the pathways forward. Disasters force endings and offer new beginnings. Their des...
Published On: Aug 8 2025
Deadline: Aug 31, 2025
The Department and Institute of Bioethics and Health Humanities (BHH), housed in the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, is recruiting tenure track faculty member. This person will teach 2 small graduate seminars per year (30% education effort) and the remaining 70% effort will be for research. The research area is open, and we strongly encourage people whose work interfaces with law/policy or environmental health to apply.
Published On: Jul 8 2025
Deadline: Sep 1, 2025
The Department of Anthropology at Princeton University is accepting applications for a lecturer position in environmental anthropology and/or the social studies of science and technology for the 2025-2026 academic year, with an expected start date of September 1, 2025. Responsibilities include teaching four courses: an introductory environmental anthropology course and three thematic courses in the candidate's area of expertise. Additionally, the lecturer will mentor undergraduate students working on their senior theses. An advanced degree in anthropology or a related field is required. Work a...
Published On: Jul 8 2025
Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
Please nominate publications for the International Network for Engineering Studies' 2025 Paper Prize. The prize celebrates an excellent refereed journal paper or book chapter addressing the relationships among the technical, social and philosophical dimensions of engineering practices, and how these relationships change over time and from place to place. This year, the prize committee is calling for articles published in 2024 or 2025 in media other than the Engineering Studies journal.
Published On: Jul 8 2025
Deadline: Sep 1, 2025
The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), has an occasional curricular need for lecturers to teach in areas such as scientific and technological dimensions of the nexus of global environmental problems, and accepts applications in advance in the event the occasion arises where such lecturers are needed. Any appointments and duty time are subject to enrollments and may be for one or two semesters during the 2025-2026 academic year. Positions would have an expected start date of September 1, 2025, or January 16, 2026.
Depending on the qualifications and interests of the applicants and ...
Published On: Aug 13 2025
We are saddened here at the Society to share the passing of one of our field’s luminaries, Michel Callon. His foundational work in actor network theory has inspired generations of STS scholars, and Callon was president of 4S from 1998 to 2000. He was awarded the Bernal Prize in 2002. We thank the Center for the Sociology of Innovation for sharing this in memorium: https://www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/featured-articles/michel-callon-1945-2025/
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Aug 1, 2025
The SG Academies South-East Asia Fellowship (SASEAF) Programme aims to facilitate meaningful collaborations between Singapore’s distinguished research institutions and promising postdoctoral researchers from South-East Asia. This fellowship offers a 2-year opportunity to engage in impactful research that contributes to advancements in their respective fields.
Published On: Jul 8 2025
Deadline: Sep 2, 2025
The Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Science, Technology, and Society beginning in July 2026. We are especially interested in applicants who make use of anthropological methods in their approach to STS, and whose teaching and research focus on questions of technology as they intersect with disability, gender, indigeneity, poverty, race, sexuality, and/or other social identities and experiences.
Published On: Aug 8 2025
4S Member Dr. Sophie Chao has published a monograph with Duke University Press, titled Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger. The book draws on Chao's ethnographic fieldwork in West Papua and examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in the context of mass deforestation and industrial oil palm plantation expansion. Instead of seeing hunger as an individual, biophysical state defined purely in nutritional, quantitative, or human terms, Chao investigates how hunger traverses variably situated humans, animals, plants, institutions, infrastructures...
Published On: Jul 8 2025
Deadline: Sep 1, 2025
The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), (https://environment.princeton.edu/) invites applications for postdoctoral research associates and more senior research positions focusing on the scientific, technical, policy, and human dimensions of environmental issues. These areas include issues surrounding global change; energy and climate; biogeochemical cycles; molecular geochemistry; biodiversity; conservation; environmental science and policy; infectious disease and global health; and sustainable development in impoverished and resource-challenged regions of the world.