Senior Research Specialist

Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) is looking to hire a full-time pre-doctoral research assistant for the Criminal Justice @ SPIA Initiative. The position entails close collaboration with two faculty members, Laurence Ralph and Maria Micaela Sviatschi, on projects related to criminal justice research. The research assistant will provide support on a variety of research tasks. Projects include working with data for a project on organized crime, migration, and inequality in Latin America, and discourse and content analysis for a project on the history of police torture in the United States.

In addition to working closely with faculty, research assistants participate in the vibrant academic life of Princeton University, including taking graduate or undergraduate courses, attending seminars, and engaging with graduate students and other research assistants.

This is a one-year term position.

Responsibilities:

• Tasks include cleaning datasets, scraping data, and creating summary statistics.
• Analyze texts and conduct an extensive literature review for grant submissions.

Perform other research tasks and research coordination as needed.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree
• Discourse/content analysis
• Data analysis and processing (e.g. cleaning, summary statistics, scrapping data)
• Strong research and writing skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with academic literature review preferred

We at the School of Public and International Affairs believe that it is vital to cultivate an environment that embraces and promotes diversity, equity and inclusion - fundamental to the success of our education and research mission. This commitment to diversity informs our efforts in recruitment and hiring as we actively seek colleagues of exceptional ability who represent a broad range of viewpoints, experiences and value systems, and who share Princeton University's dedication to excellence.

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