Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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The Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor with a focus on the criminal legal system. We define the criminal legal system broadly to include, among other things: how and why criminal legal policies have come to be and evolved; how macro- and micro-level policies and practices contribute to rates of—and disparities in—levels of contact with the criminal legal system; and how contact with the criminal legal system affects individuals, families, and communities and how the nature of this contact—the texture of police stops or conditions of confinement, for example—shape the social, economic, and/or political consequences of exposure to the criminal legal system. These are, of course, only some of the ways in which criminal legal policy could be defined, and we are open to other related research areas.

Candidates should be able to teach courses in their substantive areas of interest that also align with the interests of undergraduate and graduate students engaged with public policy. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant social scientific discipline and a record of (or demonstrated capacity for) scholarly publication, public engagement, and excellence in teaching.

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