The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality (CSSI) invites applications from excellent scholars for postdoctoral positions. The number of the positions will be one to four depending on our budget for the next fiscal year. The center pursues development of new theories and methodologies on social stratification and inequality with emphasis on studies of rational choice theory, minorities (including gender stratification and inequality), East Asia, and fairness. Faculty members of the center are sociologists, social psychologists, cultural anthropologists, a religious anthropologist, a historian, and an economist, and they study social stratification and inequality from various viewpoints.

Applicants should hold doctoral degrees or show academic performance equivalent to holders of doctoral degrees. They should have a good command of English. Postdoctoral fellows of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science are not eligible for this application.

The successful candidates will be expected to work under the supervision of the faculty members of the center for a one-year period from April 1st, 2004. (The date is negotiable.) Though the initial contract is one-year period, the contract will be extended for one more year. The salary of a successful candidate will be 270,000 - 350,000 yen per month depending on his/her academic career. Travel and housing allowances will be paid to those who are eligible for them. Grants for excellent research projects proposed by the successful candidates will be provided. The center also academically and financially supports their presentations at international conferences.

The deadline for completed applications is January 31, 2004. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a list of their presentations and publications, a research plan at the CSSI (less than 1,500 words), each copy of three major publications at most, and a letter of reference to:

Dr. Yoshimichi Sato, Director
Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality
Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University
Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576, Japan
Phone: +81-22-217-6036 Fax: +81-22-217-5972
http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/coe/index-en.html