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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Graduate Research Assistantship in Cognitive or Linguistic Anthropology</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A three-year Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistantship is available (beginning August 2017) working with Dr. Stephen Chrisomalis at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan (<a href="http://clas.wayne.edu/chrisomalis">http://clas.wayne.edu/chrisomalis</a>).
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Applicants should be interested in pursuing doctoral research in cognitive or linguistic anthropology relating to mathematics, STEM education, numeracy, or cognitive aspects of knowledge systems.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This assistantship will be funded under an interdisciplinary grant, ‘Developing and studying the replication of Math Corps’ (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1612400">http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1612400</a>)
funded by the National Science Foundation to evaluate the replication of the Math Corps program.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>This research will use a variety of social-scientific approaches, including discourse analysis, cultural models, and ethnomathematics, to work with a middle-school mathematics informal learning program.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The GRA will be involved in fieldwork, data collection and analysis, and dissemination of research findings at conferences and in publications, throughout the duration of the assistantship.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The successful applicant may develop a doctoral project based directly on this work with the Math Corps, or develop an independent project in one of the subject areas listed above.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal">The successful applicant will have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in anthropology, linguistics, or closely allied field, and should demonstrate an ability to participate in an interdisciplinary research environment as well as a capacity
to work independently. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>No particular advanced training in mathematics is required.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Applicants will apply to the Ph.D. program in anthropology at Wayne State University (<a href="http://wayne.edu/admissions/graduate">http://wayne.edu/admissions/graduate</a>) and will otherwise meet the criteria for admission
to that program.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Wayne State anthropology program is a four-field anthropology program with strong methodological training and a focus on practicing anthropology.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The assistantship is a three-year award (estimated 20 work hours / week through the academic year), subject to yearly performance reviews, with a salary of $18,885 in 2017-18 and an approximate 2.5% annual cost-of-living increase, plus
graduate tuition of up to ten credits per semester for fall and winter, plus subsidized benefits throughout the term of the assistantship.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Additional funding may be possible following the end of the assistantship.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The successful applicant will be expected to apply for external funding in support of their dissertation research.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Students from groups traditionally underrepresented in the academy are particularly encouraged to apply.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more information, please email Stephen Chrisomalis at <a href="mailto:chrisomalis@wayne.edu">
chrisomalis@wayne.edu</a>, and attach a current CV.</p>
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<p><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Constantia,serif; font-size:12pt">Stephen Chrisomalis
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<span style="font-family:Constantia,serif; font-size:12pt">Associate Professor and Graduate Director
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<span style="font-family:Constantia,serif; font-size:12pt">3019 FAB, 656 W. Kirby
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<span style="font-family:Constantia,serif; font-size:12pt">Detroit, MI 48202 </span>
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<span style="font-family:Constantia,serif; font-size:12pt">chrisomalis@wayne.edu </span>
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<span style="font-family:Constantia,serif; font-size:12pt">313-577-9922 </span><span style="font-family:Constantia,serif"></span></font></p>
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