We have this tenure-track Assistant Professor position open at MIT. It is an unusual opportunity in being a shared position between the Department of Political Science and the College of Computing. (I say “unusual” compared with typical faculty lines, but by now MIT has hired faculty into several such shared positions.)

So we’re definitely inviting applications not just from social science PhDs, but also from, e.g., statisticians, mathematicians, and computer scientists:

We seek candidates whose research involves development and/or intensive use of computational and/or statistical methodologies, aimed at addressing substantive questions in political science.

Beyond advertising this specific position, perhaps this is an interesting example of the institutional forms that interdisciplinary hiring can take. Here the appointment would be in the Department of Political Science and then also within one of the relevant units of the College of Computing. And there are two search committees working together, one from the Department and one from the College. I am serving on the latter, which includes experts from all parts of the College.

[This post is by Dean Eckles.]