Dear ES/PE community members, find below an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 25 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly funded) and special issues, 18 postdoc positions, 14 job openings, 7 PhD scholarships, 3 summer schools, and 2 visiting positions in economic sociology, political economy, and broadly related fields, with deadlines from September 15 till October 31. Share this post with your colleagues and students. Good luck!

Calls for Papers — Conferences and Workshops:

— CfP: “Neoliberalism, Polycrisis and Pluralism“, The International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics’ annual conference, University of San Francisco, January 5-6 January in person and January 10 online. Scholarships to cover fees are available to those with limited funding including graduate students and academics from the Global South. DL: September 15

— Call for Mini-Conference Theme Proposals for the 37th annual SASE conference “Inclusive Solidarities: Reimagining Boundaries in Divided Time“, Montréal (Québec, Canada), 9-12 July 2025. DL: September 16

— CfP: “Im/migrant Well-Being: A Nexus for Policy and Research“, the Im/migrant Well-Being Research Center, Univ. of Florida (USA). DL: September 15

— CfP: “Regenerative Critical Management Studies”, the 14th International Critical Management Studies conference, Manchester Metropolitan Business School (UK), 18-20 June 2025. DL: September 18

— CfP: “Transnational Infrastructures in Geoeconomic Competition” workshop, the University of Tübingen (Germany), 27-28 March 2025. Contributions will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal as a special Issue. Financial assistance for travel might be provided. DL: September 20

— CfP: “Global Elections and Economic Shifts: Political Economy in 2024“, PSA British & Comparative Political Economy specialist group workshop, City, University of London (UK), November 1 2024. Keynoter: Albena Azmanova. The organizers may be able to ease travel/accommodation expenses. DL: September 27

— CfP: “Financial Reporting and Auditing as Social and Organizational Practice” workshop, London School of Economics and Political Science, 19-20 December 2024. DL: September 30

— CfP: “Firms and Moral Repair: Shaping a Research Agenda” workshop, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona (Spain), 18-19 November 2024. No conference fees; meals will be provided. DL: September 30

—  CfP: “Political Economy for a Just Life. Theoretical and Practical Challenges”, the 8th Portuguese Association of Political Economy meeting, University of Coimbra, January 30 to February 1, 2025. Keynoters: Jayati Ghosh, José Reis, Julie Froud. DL: September 30.

— CfP: “Meso-Level Perspectives on Paid Work in Contemporary Society“, the Politics and Society Workshop, University Aix-Marseille (Marseille, France), 30-31 January 2025. There are no participation fees; organizers aim to cover up to 200€ per person for expenses for young scholars. DL: September 30

— CfP: The 17th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organization, Harvard University (Cambridge MA, USA), January 23-25, 2025. There is no conference fee. DL: September 30

— CfP: “Fairness Reimagined: Multidisciplinary Perspectives about Work“, the Work and Equalities Institute Sixth Fairness at Work Conference, The University of Manchester (UK), 21 – 22 January 2025. DL: September 30

— CfP: “The Capitalist State in the 2020s“, a series of collaborative workshops in 2024-25, the Centre for Capitalism Studies, University College London (UK). DL: October 4

— CfP: “Labour Process and the Environmental Crisis in a Multipolar World“, The 44th International Labour Process Conference, Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago de Chile, Chile), 23-25 April 2025. The conference will feature a pre-conference workshop for PhD students and early career researchers on April 23rd. DL: October 31

Calls for papers — Journals and Collections:

— CfP: “A Digital Fix? Digital Finance in Times of Geoeconomic Challenges” special issue and workshop. DL for abstracts: September 15

— CfP: “Handbook on Postcapitalist Political Economy“. DL: September 20

— CfP: “State Capitalism and Firms: Ownership, Institutions, and Beyond“, Journal of Management Studies‘ special issue and a post-submission revision workshop. DL: September 30

— CfP: “When Finance Becomes Tech“, Finance and Society‘s special issue. DL for abstracts: October 1

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— CfP: “Planning for Polycrisis“, MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning’s peer-reviewed journal Projections 18‘s special issue. DL: October 5

— CfP: “Industrial Relations, Political Parties, and Political Systems“, ILR Review‘s special issue. DL for abstracts: October 15

— CfP: “Confronting Challenges to Democracy: Civic Resistance and Institutional Resilience“, International Journal of Comparative Sociology‘s special issue. DL for abstracts: October 15

— CfP: “Keynes’s ‘The End of Laissez Faire’: 1926-2026. A centennial celebration“, Review of Political Economy‘s special issue. DL for abstracts: October 15

— CfP: “Public, Private, and Social Labor Governance in Global Production“, ILR Review‘s special issue. DL for full papers: October 30

— CfP: “Coastal Squeeze: Beaches under Socio-Economic and Ecological Pressure“, TOMO‘s special issue. DL for abstracts: October 30

— Call for short pieces in honor of Harrison White, Connections – the official journal of the International Network of Social Network Analysis. DL: October 31

Summer Schools:

— CfA: “From Basic to Advanced Network Analysis in R“, a livestreaming online workshop (ECTS 2 points), 17-18 October. DL: September 19

— CfA: The 7th Southern Hemisphere Economic History Summer School, the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay), December 5-7, 2024. It will be held in connection with the 8^th Latin American Economic History Congress on December 3-5. Financial support for travel and accommodation for a limited number of presenters will be provided. DL: September 20

— CfA: The 3rd Winter Games in Economic History, the Norwegian Economic History Association, BI-Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway), 31 January 2025. DL: October 18

Job openings:

— A tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology (Eastern Europe and economic sociology),  the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Washington and Lee University (VA, USA). DL: September 15

— Associate Professor or Professor in Sociology (open field), the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. DL: September 15

— Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in Sociology (field of specialization is open) the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. DL: September 16

— Assistant Professor of Sociology (inequality, organizations, economic sociology), the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Applications may be considered until the position is filled.

— Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Organization & Management focused on organization theory or economic sociology, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School (GA, USA). DL: September 20

— University Lecturer in Global Political Economy, the University of Helsinki (Finland). DL: September 23

— Assistant Professor in Sociology (Economic Sociology / sociology of work / organisations / digital or platform economies), Department of Sociology, London School of Economics. DL: September 23

— A tenure- line assistant or associate professor in Sociology, The McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University (USA). DL: September 30

— A Full Professor of Sociology (welfare / post-welfare states, social movements), the Department of Sociology, the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). DL: September 30

— A tenure-track Assistant Professor in Economic Sociology, The Department of Sociology at Boston University (USA). DL: October 1

— A tenure-line Assistant Professor in Economic Sociology, The Department of Sociology at Southern Methodist University (TX, USA). DL: October 1

— A tenure-track assistant professor in Sociology (open field), The Sociology Department at the University of California – Santa Barbara (USA). DL: October 3

— Open Rank Faculty Position in Political Economy of Education, The Stanford University Graduate School of Education (USA). DL: October 21

— Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Associate Professorship in Vocational Training, University of Lausanne (Switzerland). DL: October 30

Visiting position:

— The Nuffield College Sociology Group at the University of Oxford invites applications for a Visitorship during the 2025-26 academic year. DL: September 30

— Visiting Researchers Program specializing in economic sociology or comparative / international political economy, The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Köln, Germany). DL: October 31

PhD Fellowships and positions:

— PhD Fellowship in Historical Political Economy, University of Barcelona (Spain). DL: September 20

—  Two PhD student positions in Sociology to join the “Improving Female Migrants’ Labour Market Positioning” project, University of Lausanne (Switzerland). DL: September 23

— PhD scholarship in Business Ethics and Diversity connected to the research project “Women’s Employment Journey in Danish Multinational Enterprises in the Arab Middle East”, department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School. DL: September 29

— Doctoral researchers for the “Digitalization and Social Transformation“ group (to participate in research on platforms and marketplaces, e.g. in the field of gig-economy), the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna. DL: September 30

— Predoc position to write a doctoral thesis in the context of the “Carl Menger as a Central Banker? From the Origin to the Future of Money” project, the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method , Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria). DL: September 30

— Doctoral student in Economic History (Socio-Spatial mobility, neighborhood policy and immigrant integration), Department of Economic History, Lund University (Sweden). DL: October 1

— PhD Position in Sociology or Political Science within the Doctoral Training Unit on “Economic Insecurity: Causes, Consequences and Actions” established by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research. DL: October 4

Postdoctoral positions:

— Postdoctoral research position to work within the project “Inequality formation through parenthood transition & family policy constellations in Europe“, The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research of the University of Mannheim (Germany). DL: September 16

— Research Assistant (Postdoc) to join the project “Upward mobility or status maintenance? Status aspirations and educational decisions according to social origin and immigrant background” at the Institute for Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany). DL: September 16

— Two post-doctoral researchers to work on matters related to global governance and the political economy of great power rivalries, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (Germany). DL: September 16

— Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ben-Gurion University, University of Haifa, and Bar-Ilan University (Israel), each of which has economic sociology faculty members. DL: September 16

— Research Officer, the International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics (UK). DL: September 16

— The Martin Buber Society of Postdoctoral Fellows Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). DL: September 18

— Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Creative Labour and Critical Futures cluster (one of the themes is Political Economy of AI and the Digital Today) at the University of Toronto Scarborough (Canada). DL: September 20

— Postdoctoral positions at the “Distributional Workplace Accounts” – European Research Council Funded Project that transforms the traditional way of measuring inequality: it involves a new way to measure the distribution of total income among classes and social groups based on administrative “big data” – individual and workplace tax records, the Department of Sociology, the University of Haifa (Israel). DL: September 20

— Research Fellow in Financing Essentials and Debt (to study uses of debt by different social classes and sectors of economy), Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire (UK). DL: September 22

— Two Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows in Sociology, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. DL: September 23

— Postdoctoral research associates in international and comparative political economy, global governance, and globalization, The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (USA). DL: October 1

— Postdoc position to join the “Urban Frontiers” project (how land is accessed, coded, and controlled in urban peripheries in the light of social struggles), the Global Development Section, the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). DL: October 4

— Postdoctoral or more senior research associate positions in the Eviction Lab, the Department of Sociology at Princeton University (USA). DL: October 11

— Post-Doctoral Position in modern economic and social history (trade and the world economy of the 20^th century, business history in particular of multinational enterprises and political economy), the University of Bayreuth (Germany). DL: October 15

— Research Associate (Postdoctoral Scholar) in Wealth Inequality, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, The City University of New York. DL: October 30

— Research Associate (Postdoctoral Scholar) in Economic Inequality, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, The City University of New York (USA). DL: October 30

— Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Economic History at the Centre for History and Economics, Sciences Po (Paris). The fellow will be also invited to the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics. DL: October 31 

Research Grants:

— Labor in Historical Perspective Grants Program, The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University. DL: October 14

— The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Research Grant. DL: October 31

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