The Department of Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS) at Vanderbilt University invites applications for a joint tenure-track Assistant Professor position with MHS and Public Policy Studies (PPS), to begin fall semester 2022.  We seek an interdisciplinary scholar who will have a tenure-track home in MHS and teaching duties in both MHS and Public Policy Studies. Field of specialization is open, with preference for an interdisciplinary quantitative social scientist.

This position builds on growing connections between MHS and Policy.  We envision a junior scholar who will participate in and lead research, teaching, and grant proposals.  As such, areas of focus reflect areas of existing strength, student interest, and the future-focus of the field, including but not limited to:

• Strategies for gun violence prevention across political, racial, geographic divides;
• Community-based engagement in gun-violence-prevention/violence interruption;
• Best policies and practices for reducing gun related injury and death, including firearm suicide;
• The politics of U.S. firearms/attitudes and beliefs;
• The social contexts and meanings surrounding guns, gun violence, and gun markets;
• Global firearm policies, markets, implications;
• Media, technology, and messaging surrounding gun-violence prevention

Scholars who build on Vanderbilt’s existing strengths in firearm policy, the implications of firearm violence by race and/or sexual orientation, “structural” approaches to gun violence prevention (eg, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953621002112), and the health politics/policies of the US South are especially encouraged to apply. The ability to obtain external funding is highly desirable, as is the ability to teach advanced quantitative methods and causal inference to undergraduate public policy studies majors. The university is home to a strong network of health and health policy researchers, and there are collaborative opportunities with multiple Arts and Science departments as well as in the School of Medicine.

Vanderbilt expects excellence in teaching and in research. Ph.D. is required by August 15, 2022. To apply, please submit: 1) a current cv; and 2) a letter describing your research and teaching interests, professional experience, and interest in/fit with interdisciplinary units such as MHS and PPS, and a Diversity statement. Examples of scholarly writing and three letters of reference will be requested from semifinalists at a later date. These materials should be addressed to Professor Jonathan Metzl, Chair, MHS-Policy Search Committee , and submitted via the Interfolio portal: http://apply.interfolio.com/95338.

We will begin reviewing applications on November 1, 2021, and will continue until the position is filled. Please contact Jonathan Metzl (jonathan.metzl@vanderbilt.edu) or Tara McKay (tara.mckay@vanderbilt.edu) with any questions.  For questions about Vanderbilt’s Program in Public Policy Studies, please contact Christopher Carpenter (christopher.s.carpenter@vanderbilt.edu).

The Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS) in the College of Arts & Science at Vanderbilt University invites applications for the position of Senior Lecturer, full-time, not on the tenure track. This is a unique position that combines undergraduate and graduate teaching with leadership and administration in our growing MA program in the Social Foundations of Health.  The position of Senior Lecturer carries a 3-3 annual teaching load, but this position has the potential for course release for team-based administrative responsibilities.

Interdisciplinary educators with experience in academic administration, curricular development, and/or social media development in combination with  expertise in the politics of health, community engagement and activism, health communication, applied research methods, and/or health inequalities will be given preference. Primary responsibilities will include teaching in undergraduate and MA-level programs and working with the MHS Chair and Director of Graduate Studies to expand and sustain the MA curriculum.  The successful candidate will also participate in multidisciplinary teams and help to build connections between MHS, the Vanderbilt Medical Center, and the Nashville community at-large.

Applicants should have a PhD in an appropriate academic discipline by August 15, 2022.

MHS is an innovative multidisciplinary research and teaching department that applies humanities and social science methods to biomedical questions.  More information about MHS can be found via our website, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs, and about the MA programs at https://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs/graduate/m-a-program.

Review of applications will begin on January 15th, 2022, and continue until the position is filled.  The three-year appointment will begin August 16, 2022 with possibility for reappointment.   Ph.D. required by the time of appointment. The final candidate for this position must successfully complete a background check per university regulations.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, the names of three referees, and a brief sample of scholarly writing, addressed to Jonathan Metzl, Chair of MHS, electronically via Interfolio [http://apply.interfolio.com/100569].  Second-round candidates will be asked to submit three letters of recommendation via the Interfolio portal.

The Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS) in the College of Arts & Science at Vanderbilt University invites applications for the position of Senior Lecturer, full-time, not on the tenure track. The position of Senior Lecturer carries a 3-3 annual teaching load.

Interdisciplinary educators with expertise in health policy, health disparities, LGBTQ health, global health, health humanities, medical anthropology or sociology will be given preference.  Primary responsibilities will include teaching in undergraduate and MA-level programs.

MHS is an innovative multidisciplinary research and teaching department that applies humanities and social science methods to biomedical questions.  More information about MHS can be found via our website, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs, and about the MA programs at https://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs/graduate/m-a-program.

Applicants should have a PhD in any appropriate academic discipline by August 15, 2022.  Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, the contact information of three referees, and a brief sample of scholarly writing, addressed to Jonathan Metzl, Chair of MHS, electronically via Interfolio [http://apply.interfolio.com/101502 ].  Second-round candidates will be asked to submit three letters of recommendation via the Interfolio portal.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, the names of three referees, and a brief sample of scholarly writing, addressed to Jonathan Metzl, Chair of MHS, electronically via Interfolio [http://apply.interfolio.com/100569].  Second-round candidates will be asked to submit three letters of recommendation via the Interfolio portal.

Review of applications will begin on February 15, and continue until the position is filled.  The three-year appointment will begin August 16, 2022 with possibility for reappointment.   The final candidate for this position must successfully complete a background check per university regulations.