<p>The job announcement BELOW was sent to me on July 30th. If you know someone who might be interested in it, please share it with them. And just in case I am not authorized to send things to the bfas list serv, will someone pass this on to BFSA leadership for posting. Thank you. Denise A. Narcisse, Phd</p><p> </p><div><span style="font-size: 12pt">The Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University invites applications for an advanced assistant or associate professor in the area of <b>Crime, Law, and Deviance</b>. We seek candidates who have a record of notable accomplishment in research and scholarship and a commitment to excellence in teaching. Candidates in all research areas and all methodologies within Crime, Law, and Deviance are encouraged to apply, but preference will be given to candidates with research expertise in race and ethnicity or social psychology.</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt">Texas A&M University is a large and expanding research university in Bryan/College Station, a growing metropolitan community with a clean environment, attractive amenities, and a low cost of living. It has close proximity to the large metropolitan areas of Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The University is a land, sea, and space grant university. The Sociology Department <a href="http://www.sociweb.tamu.edu/">http://www.sociweb.tamu.edu</a> is large, collegial, and intellectually and demographically diverse. Major research areas include Race, Class, and Gender; Crime, Law, and Deviance; Culture; Demography; Political and Economic Sociology; and Social Psychology. The department’s undergraduate program has over 400 majors and the doctoral program has about 90 students. Over the past decade, the department has experienced significant investments including the addition of faculty positions at both senior and junior levels. </span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt">Supportive departmental resources include the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute <a href="http://resi.tamu.edu/index.php">http://resi.tamu.edu/index.php</a> and the newly established Texas Census Research Data Center (TXCRDC) <a href="http://txcrdc.tamu.edu/html/help.html">http://txcrdc.tamu.edu/html/help.html</a> <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none">which can provide researchers access to restricted versions of many census, NCHS, and other federal data sets including the National Crime Victimization Survey</span><span style="color: black">. </span></span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt">Applicants should submit a letter describing their research and teaching interests, a curriculum vita, and examples of their publications of scholarly works. Address correspondence to: Dr. Holly Foster, Chair of the Sociology Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, 77843-4351. Review of applications will begin on October 15<sup>th</sup> and continue until the position is filled. Texas A&M University if an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer and seeks to be responsive to the needs of dual career couples. Women and members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.</span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt">Verna M. Keith, Ph.D.<br />Director, Race & Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI)<br />304 Academic Building<br />Texas A&M University<br />4249 TAMU <br />College Station, TX 77843-4249<br />Phone: 979-845-0966/979-458-4429 /979-845-5133<br />Fax: 979-862-4057<br />Email: </span></b><b><span style="color: #993366; font-size: 10pt">keithvm@tamu.edu</span></b></div>