Assistant Professor
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details.
We need to decide sections: About the role (intro description), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Required Qualifications and Preferred?), Skills (maybe list preferred expertise), Pay, Schedule.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
Let's draft:
About the role
The Department of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in Durham invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in technology and society. In addition to this primary area, candidates with expertise in one or more of the following are preferred: quantitative methods, computational sociology, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), sociology of health and illness, and environmental sociology. UNH seeks a social scientist who applies innovative empirical methods to examine how emerging technologies shape social institutions, inequalities, organizations, and communities, as well as how social forces shape the development, adoption, and use of those technologies. This is a full-time appointment beginning August 2027. The Department of Sociology at UNH is a collegial department with strengths in criminology, health, community and environmental sociology, and stratification. We are committed to rigorous sociological research and to preparing students for careers in academic, public-sector, nonprofit, and private-sector settings. The successful candidate will join a department that values collaborative research, student mentorship, and interdisciplinary engagement and will have opportunities to develop research and teaching collaborations with faculty and programs across UNH, including Justice Studies, Sustainability, International Affairs, and other programs throughout the university. This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement between AAUP-UNH and the University System of New Hampshire (AAUP-UNH contract).
But we must not include application instructions. The link to contract is okay? It's not boilerplate? It's part of the posting. It's not navigation/legal/EEO. It's okay.
Now Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Maintain a productive research program, including seeking external funding.
- Contribute to excellence in teaching and mentoring a diverse body of students.
- Provide engaged service to the department, university, and profession.
- Teach introductory and advanced sociology courses as well as university-wide core curriculum courses.
- Engage students in research, including through opportunities to develop computational, methodological, and applied sociological skills.
- Develop and maintain an active program of sociological research and pursue opportunities for external funding appropriate to their research agenda.
- Develop courses in their area of expertise, such as technology and society, artificial intelligence and society, digital sociology, computational social science, or health, technology, and society.
- Mentor students.
- Work collaboratively with faculty in the sociology department and across UNH departments and programs.
- Support departmental and university goals through service on committees or other administrative roles.
But note some duplicates: "Maintain a productive research program..." appears also in Responsibilities list. We need to preserve all substantive information but avoid duplication? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove duplicated lines. So we need to deduplicate.
Let's collect unique responsibilities from the text:
From earlier paragraph: "Responsibilities of the position include maintaining a productive research program, including seeking external funding; contributing to excellence in teaching and mentoring a diverse body of students; and providing engaged service to the department, university, and profession."
Later bullet list under Duties/Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain an active program of sociological research and pursue opportunities for external funding appropriate to their research agenda.
- Develop courses in their area of expertise, such as technology and society, artificial intelligence and society, digital sociology, computational social science, or health, technology, and society.
- Mentor students.
- Work collaboratively with faculty in the sociology department and across UNH departments and programs.
- Support departmental and university goals through service on committees or other administrative roles.
Also earlier: "The faculty member will teach introductory and advanced sociology courses as well as university-wide core curriculum courses."
Also "We particularly value faculty who engage students in research, including through opportunities to develop computational, methodological, and applied sociological skills."
Thus unique responsibilities:
1. Maintain a productive research program, including seeking external funding.
2. Contribute to excellence in teaching and mentoring a diverse body of students.
3. Provide engaged service to the department, university, and profession.
4. Teach introductory and advanced sociology courses as well as university-wide core curriculum courses.
5. Engage students in research, including through opportunities to develop computational, methodological, and applied sociological skills.
6. Develop and maintain an active program of sociological research and pursue opportunities for external funding appropriate to their research agenda. (Similar to #1 but more specific; maybe keep both? It's somewhat duplicate but not identical. Might be considered duplicate? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. This is similar but not exact same wording. Might be considered duplicate content. Safer to keep only one? But we need to preserve ALL substantive information. If we drop one, we lose some nuance (active program, appropriate to research agenda). However #1 already says maintaining a productive research program, including seeking external funding. #6 adds develop and maintain an active program... pursue opportunities for external funding appropriate to their research agenda. That's essentially same. I'd consider it duplicate and remove #6.
7. Develop courses in their area of expertise, such as technology and society, artificial intelligence and society, digital sociology, computational social science, or health, technology, and society.
8. Mentor students. (Similar to #2? #2 includes mentoring a diverse body of students. #8 is mentor students. Could be duplicate but #2 is about teaching and mentoring; #8 is just mentor. Might be considered duplicate. We'll keep #2 and drop #8.
9. Work collaboratively with faculty in the sociology department and across UNH departments and programs.
10. Support departmental and university goals through service on committees or other administrative roles. (Similar to #3? #3 is provide engaged service to department, university, profession. #10 is support goals through service on committees or other admin roles. Could be considered duplicate but not identical. Might keep both? Might be considered overlapping. Safer to keep both? The instruction: remove duplicated lines. If they are not exact duplicates, we keep. We'll keep both.
Thus responsibilities list:
- Maintain a productive research program, including seeking external funding.
- Contribute to excellence in teaching and mentoring a diverse body of students.
- Provide engaged service to the department, university, and profession.
- Teach introductory and advanced sociology courses as well as university-wide core curriculum courses.
- Engage students in research, including through opportunities to develop computational, methodological, and applied sociological skills.
- Develop courses in their area of expertise, such as technology and society, artificial intelligence and society, digital sociology, computational social science, or health, technology, and society.
- Work collaboratively with faculty in the sociology department and across UNH departments and programs.
- Support departmental and university goals through service on committees or other administrative roles.
Now Requirements/Qualifications:
We have Required Qualifications bullet list:
- Ph.D. in Sociology or a related field by the time of appointment; candidates who are ABD and anticipate completing the Ph.D. by August 2027 will be considered.
- Evidence of scholarly potential through publications, manuscripts, presentations, or other research accomplishments appropriate to career stage.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence and ability to contribute to the undergraduate sociology curriculum, including core courses, courses in their area of expertise, and other areas of departmental need.
- Evidence of collegiality and willingness to contribute to the department, university, and profession.
Also there is "Preferred" expertise list: quantitative methods, computational sociology, emerging technologies, AI, sociology of health and illness, environmental sociology. Could be under Skills or Preferred Qualifications. We'll create a Skills section for those.
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details. We need to decide sections: About the role (intro description), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Required Qualifications and Preferred?), Skills (maybe list preferred expertise), Pay, Schedule. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. Let's draft:
About the role
The Department of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in Durham invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in technology and society. In addition to this primary area, candidates with expertise in one or more of the following are preferred: quantitative methods, computational sociology, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), sociology of health and illness, and environmental sociology. UNH seeks a social scientist who applies innovative empirical methods to examine how emerging technologies shape social institutions, inequalities, organizations, and communities, as well as how social forces shape the development, adoption, and use of those technologies. This is a full-time appointment beginning August 2027. The Department of Sociology at UNH is a collegial department with strengths in criminology, health, community and environmental sociology, and stratification. We are committed to rigorous sociological research and to preparing students for careers in academic, public-sector, nonprofit, and private-sector settings. The successful candidate will join a department that values collaborative research, student mentorship, and interdisciplinary engagement and will have opportunities to develop research and teaching collaborations with faculty and programs across UNH, including Justice Studies, Sustainability, International Affairs, and other programs throughout the university. This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement between AAUP-UNH and the University System of New Hampshire (AAUP-UNH contract).
But we must not include application instructions. The link to contract is okay? It's not boilerplate? It's part of the posting. It's not navigation/legal/EEO. It's okay. Now Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- Maintain a productive research program, including seeking external funding.
- Contribute to excellence in teaching and mentoring a diverse body of students.
- Provide engaged service to the department, university, and profession.
- Teach introductory and advanced sociology courses as well as university-wide core curriculum courses.
- Engage students in research, including through opportunities to develop computational, methodological, and applied sociological skills.
- Develop and maintain an active program of sociological research and pursue opportunities for external funding appropriate to their research agenda.
- Develop courses in their area of expertise, such as technology and society, artificial intelligence and society, digital sociology, computational social science, or health, technology, and society.
- Mentor students.
- Work collaboratively with faculty in the sociology department and across UNH departments and programs.
- Support departmental and university goals through service on committees or other administrative roles.