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| Jobs | WashU School of Public Health Call for Leadership and Faculty Positions | Submitted by: SPH Faculty Affairs <SPHFacultyAffairs@wustl.edu> Description: Washington University’s School of Public Health is recruiting for multiple leadership and faculty roles, including an Associate Dean for Practice who will guide public health practice initiatives, strengthen community partnerships, and help translate research into policy and real‑world impact. The school is also hiring faculty across several disciplines—epidemiology, biostatistics, behavioral/mental health, health policy, environmental/planetary health, food and nutrition, rural health, and diabetes translational science. These positions emphasize interdisciplinary, grant‑driven research, teaching, and community‑engaged scholarship within a collaborative, research‑intensive environment. Details: https://apply.interfolio.com/173629 |
| Call for Submissions | Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Rural Action in the United States” (deadline for abstracts June 1, 2026) | Submitted by: Lisa Pruitt <lrpruitt@ucdavis.edu> Description: The Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (HJSR) invites proposal submissions for the 2027 Special Issue 49: Rural Action in the United States: Community-Driven Strategies for Equity, Transformation and Participatory Research. This special issue seeks to advance scholarly and practice-based conversations about rural communities as dynamic sites of both structural inequity and transformative action. For this issue, we welcome theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions that examine the diverse forms, sites, and expressions of rural action across the United States. Submissions may draw from any disciplinary perspective, theoretical tradition, geographic focus, or methodological approach. Please send your abstracts (250 words) to HJSR@humboldt.edu by 1 June 2026. Authors will be notified whether their abstracts have been selected for the special issue by 15 June 2026. Those selected will be invited to submit full research articles (maximum 8500 words) for peer review by 15 September 2026. We are also interested in featuring commentaries and creative writing (maximum 3000 words) in our special issue. The submission deadline for these items is 15 November 2026. Thank you in advance for sharing this announcement with colleagues who might be interested! HJSR 2027 Co-Editors Dawn Arledge, MA Nino Dzotsenidze, PhD Nick Ortiz, MA Details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LGm6ZBm-HCfogzjfMWbbIkSpkzY-txe7_tdDCc1z46Q/edit?tab=t.0 |