ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY School of Justice Studies Assistant Professor The interdisciplinary School of Justice Studies seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning August 16, 2002. The position is Information Technology, Society, and Justice. We seek someone whose scholarly background combines skills in computing and related technologies with the critical study of justice in society. The successful candidate must be interested in the transformative and progressive aspects of information technology, as well as its possibilities for exacerbating injustice. Responsibilities for this position include conducting an active program of research and scholarly publication, teaching alone and in teams with colleagues in the field of Justice Studies, and service to the University, the profession, and the community. This position involves: 1. Working with current faculty to enhance their capacity to use IT resources in their teaching and research; 2. Developing and teaching two new courses, one framed around evaluating IT as a social resource, and the other focusing on constructing justice through information technology; 3. Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of the candidate's expertise. Qualifications required: Demonstrated potential for excellence in research and teaching and completion of the Ph.D. or doctorate in the social or behavioral sciences or the humanities by the date of appointment. Background or expertise in IT and society. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with faculty and students. Qualifications desired: Demonstrated ability to work with and critically appraise web-based sources for justice research, including a variety of data sets and sources, and to teach advanced information technology skills that could include graduate statistics, qualitative data analysis, or other analytic tools. The School of Justice Studies is an interdisciplinary department in law and the social sciences with areas of theoretical and empirical concentration in social and economic justice; race, ethnicity, and marginalized groups; American Indians and Justice; disputing and conflict management; criminal and juvenile justice; and gender and justice. The School is the principal sponsor of the University-wide Ph.D./J.D. program in justice studies, law and the social sciences, and administers the M.S. program in justice studies, servicing approximately 100 graduate students of diverse national origins. There are more than 800 undergraduate Justice Studies majors. Faculty backgrounds include but are not limited to Anthropology, Criminology, History, Law, Political Science and Sociology. For further details about this program see http://www.asu.edu/copp/justice/ <http://www.asu.edu/copp/justice/> To apply, please send a cover letter, current curriculum vitae, a sample of your research, and three letters of recommendation to: Chair, Search Committee, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University, PO Box 870403, Tempe, AZ 85287-0403. Deadline for applications: January 15, 2002. AA/EOE