Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

11/05/2024

If you weren’t able to make it to the webinar we held on CHD's PhD program, you can watch the video of the event here and learn more about our program and the application process:

Learn more about the Department of Comparative Human Development:https://humdev.uchicago.edu/

10/04/2024

A new introductory video about the department!

Learn more: https://humdev.uchicago.edu/

10/03/2024

Join us on October 22nd at 2pm CST for an informative webinar designed for prospective students interested in the PhD program in Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. This session will provide an overview of our program’s unique interdisciplinary approach, faculty research areas, and opportunities for collaboration. You'll hear from current students and faculty about their experiences, the application process, and the vibrant academic community at UChicago. Whether you're just starting to explore your options or ready to apply, this webinar will help you discover more about the possibilities our program offers.

Please register here:

06/07/2024

Our own Michele Friedner featured on UChicago Podcast

08/11/2022

We're hiring! Please circulate widely.

Faculty (Open Rank) in Department of Comparative Human Development.

The Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago invites applications for an open rank faculty position to start on or after July 1, 2023. We seek a scholar who conducts research on learning and socialization, and/or development in context, including but not limited to, research on racial, ethnic, gender, and/or ability differences in educational processes and outcomes. Candidates whose research takes a life course perspective to explore intersections between multiple and overlapping categories of marginalization will be of particular interest. In line with the department’s focus on international research, we encourage candidates who conduct research outside the United States to apply. The successful candidate will have demonstrated a record of original research, a commitment to rigorous methodology, and the potential to develop collaborative relationships with scholars currently in our department as well as in other divisions and schools within the University.

Founded in 1940, the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago (https://humdev.uchicago.edu) is an interdisciplinary department whose faculty includes anthropologists, biologists, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, and methodologists whose theories and methods cross individual social sciences. Research in the department explores the social, cultural, psychological, and biological processes of change that vary across time, between individuals, between societies and cultures, and between species.

Qualifications
Applicants at the Assistant Professor level must have a Ph.D. already in hand and have demonstrated that the groundwork has been laid for an outstanding career; applicants at the Associate or full Professor level are expected to have made distinct and sustained contributions to knowledge in this field.

Application Instructions
Applicants must apply online at the University of Chicago's Interfolio website at https://apply.interfolio.com/111021. Applicants are required to upload 1) a cover letter 2) a statement of research interests, 3) a teaching statement, 4) a current curriculum vitae and 5) the names and contact information of three referees. Letters of recommendation and writing samples will be requested for short listed candidates. The review of the applications will begin on September 6, 2022 and continue until the position is filled or the search has closed.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange. The University’s Statements on Diversity are at https://provost.uchicago.edu/statements-diversity.
The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, s*x, s*xual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.
Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-834-3988 or email [email protected] with their request.

Research in the department explores the social, cultural, psychological, and biological processes of change that vary across time, between individuals, between societies and cultures, and between species.

02/08/2022

We're hiring! Please circulate widely.

Associate Professor in Comparative Human Development.

The Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago invites applications for appointment at the rank of Associate Professor to start on or after July 1, 2022. The successful candidate will conduct research on racial, ethnic, and/or gender disparities in educational processes and outcomes. We are especially interested in scholars who do mixed methods research and whose research takes a life course perspective to explore intersections between multiple and overlapping categories of marginalization. The successful candidate will have demonstrated commitment to original research and exhibit strong promise to catalyze collaborative relationships with other divisions and schools within the University; if appropriate candidates may also be considered for an additional secondary academic appointment in the University’s Committee on Education.
Founded in 1940, the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago (https://humdev.uchicago.edu) is an interdisciplinary department whose faculty includes anthropologists, biologists, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, and methodologists whose theories and methods cross individual social sciences. Research in the department explores the social, cultural, psychological, and biological processes of change that vary across time, between individuals, between societies and cultures, and between species.

Qualifications
The appointment may begin as early as July 1, 2022.
Application Instructions
The review of applications will begin on March 1, 2022 and will continue until the position is filled or the search is closed. Applications must be submitted through the University of Chicago’s Interfolio website at http://apply.interfolio.com/102023.
Applications must include: 1) a research statement addressing current and future research plans, 2) a teaching statement addressing teaching experiences and courses that applicants are willing to offer to undergraduate and graduate students, 3) a curriculum vita, 4) contact information for three references, 5) at least one publication, and 6) a cover letter.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange. The University’s Statements on Diversity are at https://provost.uchicago.edu/statements-diversity.
The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, s*x, s*xual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.
Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-1032 or email [email protected] with their request.

Research in the department explores the social, cultural, psychological, and biological processes of change that vary across time, between individuals, between societies and cultures, and between species.

02/02/2022

We're hiring. Please circulate widely.

Instructional Professor in Comparative Human Development

The University of Chicago invites applications for an Instructional Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development. This is a full-time, renewable teaching position beginning in the 2022-2023 academic year.

The Department of Comparative Human Development (CHD) at the University of Chicago is an interdisciplinary department whose faculty includes anthropologists, biologists, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, and methodologists whose theories and methods cross individual social science disciplines. Research in the department explores the social, cultural, psychological, and biological processes of change that vary across time, across individuals, across societies and cultures, and across species. Please see our website, https://humdev.uchicago.edu.

The Instructional Professor will teach six courses divided between CHD and the undergraduate core curriculum. The exact division depends on departmental need. CHD courses will include the introductory course in human development for undergraduate majors and newly-designed courses with broad appeal, intended to introduce undergraduate students to foundational topics in CHD, and with broader import in the social sciences. In addition to teaching, the Instructional Professor will work with the Department Chair and the Director of Undergraduate Studies to develop undergraduate programming and advise BA theses.

Instructional Professors must have the PhD in hand before September 1, 2022. Teaching experience is required, and preference will be given to candidates who have demonstrated experience teaching in cultural, psychological or anthropological areas of the social sciences. We are especially interested in scholars whose training has prepared them to teach across two or more of the social science core sequences. For more information, please see: http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/socialsciences/

Applications must be submitted online through the University of Chicago’s Interfolio website at http://apply.interfolio.com/102166. Applicants are required to upload the following materials: (1) cover letter; (2) curriculum vitae; 3) course packet that includes descriptions and syllabi of three or more proposed courses; 4) teaching statement; 5) any available teaching evaluations; and 6) contact information for two references. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Review of applications will begin on March 4, 2022 and will continue until the position is filled and/or the search is closed.

This position will be part of the Service Employees International Union.

We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange. The University’s Statements on Diversity are at https://provost.uchicago.edu/statements-diversity.

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, s*x, s*xual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.

Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-1032 or email [email protected] with their request.

08/16/2019

We're hiring. Please circulate widely.

Assistant/Associate Professor in Psychological and/or Linguistic Anthropology

The Department of Comparative Human Development (CHD) at the University of Chicago invites applications for a position at the rank of assistant professor (tenure-track) or associate professor (tenured). We seek a psychological, linguistic, or cultural anthropologist or a qualitative, field-based scholar whose research focuses on issues of personhood, mind, language, or subjectivity.

CHD is an interdisciplinary department at the critical edge of thought and research in the social scienceswhose faculty includes anthropologists, biologists, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, and methodologists. Faculty and students in CHD conduct interdisciplinary, holistic and comparative research and scholarship, and are committed to examining humans as simultaneously sociocultural, biological, and psychological beings who change over developmental and historical time. Please see our website, https://humdev.uchicago.edu

Qualifications

Candidate must have PhD in hand at start of the position.

Application Instructions

Review of applications will begin on November 1, and will continue until the position is filled and/or the search is closed; submission by November 1 is strongly encouraged. Applications must be submitted online through the University of Chicago's Interfolio website. http://apply.interfolio.com/66907.

Applicants are required to upload 1) a brief cover letter, 2) a current curriculum vitae, 3) a research statement addressing current and future research plans, 4) a teaching statement addressing teaching experience and philosophy, 5) one sample of scholarly writing (a published article or unpublished paper or chapter), and 6) the names and contact information of three referees. We may request letters of recommendation at a later date. The position will begin on or after July 1, 2020.
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The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, s*x, s*xual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.

Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-1032 or email [email protected] with their request.

08/16/2019

We're thrilled that Marisa Casillas is joining the faculty of
Comparative Human Development (in January 2021). Dr. Casillas is a psycholinguist exploring how cognitive & social processes shape the ways in which people learn, perceive, & produce language (particularly the language of everyday conversations). She uses a combination of experimental- and observation-based methods to investigate these themes in multiple ethnolinguistic settings.

Assistant Professor (starting January 2021) [email protected] Broadly speaking, I am interested in exploring how cognitive and social processes shape the ways in which we learn, perceive, and produce language. My primary research examines the relationship between communicative skills and lingui...

08/16/2019

We're thrilled that Eman Abdelhadi is joining the faculty of
Comparative Human Development this Fall. Dr. Abdelhadi is is a multi-method sociologist interested in religion, gender, identity, and demography. She also uses quantitative methods to research ethno-religious and gendered cultural, political and economic outcomes.

Provost Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-21; Assistant Professor, 2021- [email protected] Our society is increasingly composed of multiple subcultures—ethnic, religious and political. How do these subcultural communities reproduce themselves across generations? Why are some more successful at this t...

11/07/2018

The Council on the Anthropology of Reproduction has chosen CHD chair and faculty member Jennifer Cole's volume (which she co-edited with Christian Groes) for its 2018 Book Prize. The book, Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration, was published in 2016 by UChicago Press. Congratulations to Jennifer and Christian!

The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a fundamental fact of migration: its effects on ordinary....