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Many of you are graduating this semester (hooray!), but don’t forget that you need to APPLY for graduation with Hunter College. This activates the Degree Audit process, which is when people in the registrar’s office go through your transcript and certify that you’ve completed all the requirements for the degree (and, when you get that email,…[Read more]

The American Sociological Association (ASA) invites applications for a Senior Research Associate.

Essential Functions:

• Produce the Association’s portfolio of research about the discipline and perform institutional research to support organizational decision making.

• Engage in data collection efforts using surveys, interviews, and other app…[Read more]

Come one, come all to the reception in the Sociology Lounge, 16th Floor, Hunter West, beginning at 5pm TODAY.

We’ll have something to eat — lots of options for all — say hello, and build community!

Look forward to seeing lots of you there.

Geopath, a billboard ratings bureau, is currently looking for graduate students in data engineering, data science, statistics, or computer science to join them as data analyst intern.

These positions require solid programming skills in SQL, Python and students’ interest in data analytics as their career track. If you have any these skills and a…[Read more]

CUNY is a part of a national network of 48 colleges and universities that have been organized through a think-tank called New America to establish a new field called “Public Interest Technology” (PIT).

CUNY is hosting the convening of the network, in person, on October 28th and 29th 2022.

We are looking to hire 5 scribes who can attend both day…[Read more]

Please come by the Sociology Lounge, 5pm this Thursday, 9/22 for brief welcome reception for everyone – new and continuing students.

We’ll have some light refreshments, say hello, and then be on our way. I know some of you have class immediately after and you’ll be able to take your snacks with you (if you want). If you’re coming from work, those…[Read more]

Please come by the Sociology Lounge, 5pm this Thursday, 9/22 for brief welcome reception for everyone – new and continuing students.

We’ll have some light refreshments, say hello, and then be on our way. I know some of you have class immediately after and you’ll be able to take your snacks with you (if you want). If you’re coming from work, those…[Read more]

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, (“MCHF”) is one of the largest foundations in the United States and the largest foundation focused exclusively on New York State. Formed in 2018 by the sale of the Legacy Fidelis New York Medicaid Health Plan, MCHF is a not-for-profit corporation and private foundation with a mission to improve the health of und…[Read more]

Please join us for the 2022 SSRC Katznelson Fellow Lecture featuring Mario Small, Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, who will speak on Why Big Data Science Will Need Qualitative Research: A Case on Racial Inequality in Financial Access, followed by a response from Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Pr…[Read more]

As many of you know, I have a large, collaborative, qualitative research project called, “Combatting the Far Right: In the Streets, Online and Around the World.”

For people who did not have the opportunity to take the class about this last spring, you’re invited to join now! I’m continuing the project and looking to include more people who might…[Read more]

In her forthcoming book Data Cartels, Sarah Lamdan, Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, examines the ways privatization and tech exceptionalism have prevented us from creating effective legal regulation. She calls for treating information like a public good and creating digital infrastructure that supports our democratic ideals.

She’ll b…[Read more]

Sociology Professor France Winddance Twine, UC-Santa Barbara, will be giving a talk on, “Technology’s Matchmakers: Recruiting and Selling Candidates during a Pandemic​.”

DESCRIPTION: Headhunters, also known as recruiters, are power brokers in the tech industry. Yet there are no sociological studies of recruiters that have examined how they ada…[Read more]

Programmer/Research assistant wanted for research into the effects of race, ethnicity, and income on exposure to and production of environmental contamination. Research will replicate an existing study with new data sets. Programmer will adapt and debug pre-existing code in Go (programming language) and run a pipeline data analysis composed of Go…[Read more]