Director, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics
 
The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics seeks a highly qualified
candidate to serve in the position of the Center’s Director.  The
appointee will hold a full-time appointment at the Associate or Full
Professorial level in the Center, as well as a joint appointment in a
UCLA department appropriate to the appointee’s disciplinary research
interests. The appointment as Center Director will be for a five-year
renewable term, after which time the appointment will continue as a
normal faculty appointment.  Salary is commensurate with education and
experience.

The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics (CSG) is a Center for
Interdisciplinary Instruction with a strong research and teaching
emphasis, 14 core and affiliated faculty, and plans for continued
growth.  Our multidisciplinary program seeks to understand the
burgeoning biological sciences and their complex interactions with the
social world.  The Center thus seeks to generate new knowledge about the
co-evolution of science and society by promoting innovative and socially
relevant research and education. Applications are welcome from either
life science or human science scholars whose research focuses on the
intersection of the biological and the social. The ideal candidate will
be an intellectual leader, with strong disciplinary grounding, strong
extramural funding record, and the ability to work closely with
colleagues across a variety of fields in the humanities, social
sciences, natural sciences and medicine. The new Director of the Center
should enhance the national and international profile of the Center,
guide the development of a new Human Biology and Society Major housed
within CSG, and continue the Center’s strong commitment to diversity,
public education, and outreach.

Please send letter of application, C.V., statement of research and
teaching interests, and names of referees to CSG Director Search
Committee c/o Ana Wevill, CSG Manager, UCLA Center for Society and
Genetics, Box 957221, 1323 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7221.
Electronic applications will be accepted at ana@socgen.ucla.edu --please
place CSG Director Search in the subject heading.  Posting
#:3022-0910-01. For procedural questions, contact Ana Wevill
ana@socgen.ucla.edu. For all other questions, contact the Chair of the
Search Committee:  Soraya de Chadarevian (chadarevian@history.ucla.edu),
CSG Co-Director Norton Wise (nortonw@history.ucla.edu) or CSG
Co-Director Ed McCabe (emccabe@mednet.ucla.edu). Initial review of
applications will begin November 9, 2009 and will continue until the
position is filled. UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer. The Center has a strong commitment to the achievement of
excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. For further
information on CSG, visit: http://www.socgen.ucla.edu/

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