Faculty position opening — Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University
The Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University invites applications for one full-time faculty position at all ranks beginning from August 1, 2025. Area of specialization is open. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in sociology or a related field and have published (or received an acceptance for) at least one peer-reviewed journal article within the last five years.
Applicants should submit the following documents as a single PDF file:
- A cover letter that describes your current and future research and your teaching experience and philosophy
- A copy of your Ph.D. diploma. If ABD(All But Dissertation), candidates will be required to complete the doctoral degree by June 30, 2025, and provide a letter from the dissertation advisor or program administrators certifying that all degree requirements will be met by that deadline
- Curriculum vitae
- Official transcript for the Ph.D. program (or other documents of professional training)
- Sample syllabi for two courses most relevant to applicant’s specialty
- Two letters of recommendation should be emailed directly by the recommenders to social@ntu.edu.tw and CC’d to Ms. Wang (liwang@ntu.edu.tw).
- A copy of the completed Ph.D. dissertation, or the completed chapters of a draft thereof, along with copies of any publications from the last five years. If the dissertation is not written in Chinese or English, please provide an abstract in Chinese
Applicants with doctoral degrees granted before August 1, 2019, do not need to submit dissertations, transcripts, or recommendation letters.
Please send the application materials (as a single PDF file) to our departmental email address social@ntu.edu.tw and copy Ms. Wang (liwang@ntu.edu.tw) by December 15, 2024. Only complete applications will be reviewed. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a job talk in early March 2025. For international applicants, please indicate your level of proficiency in Chinese in the cover letter and CV.
Located in downtown Taipei, a metropolitan area of 6 million people, National Taiwan University is the top research university in Taiwan. The Department of Sociology is a dynamic academic community, with 18 faculty members and a large student body of 239 undergraduate majors, 54 master’s students, and 18 doctoral students. In the 2024 QS World University Rankings, we rank 49th in Sociology. For more information, please contact us or visit our website: https://sociology.ntu.edu.tw/