George Mason University, Department of Computational Social Science seeks to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position.

Duties include teaching graduate courses in computational social science, developing an externally-funded research program, and participating in M.S.
theses and Ph.D. dissertations. The department is housed in new facilities within Research 1, the first dedicated research building on Mason¹s Fairfax campus. Currently, department members have several active, long-term research projects underway through the Center for Social Complexity
(http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu), an interdisciplinary research center within the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University.

A Ph.D. is required by the starting date, August 2009. Experience with one or more of the following computational methodologies is required:
agent-based modeling /multi-agent systems, social network analysis, complexity science, socioinformatics, visualization, or spatial social science. Computational social scientists from any discipline (i.e., anthropology, economics, geography, political science, social psychology or
sociology) or interdisciplinary area (i.e., computational finance, geospatial science, computational statistics/econometrics, or computational organization theory) are encouraged to apply.

George Mason University (www.gmu.edu) is located in the Fairfax County area of Northern Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. The university is rapidly growing and was recently ranked in "U.S. News & World Report" as the #1 "Up-and-coming" university in the nation.

For more information on this position please contact Karen Underwood at kunderwo@gmu.edu. To apply for position F6561z, go to http://jobs.gmu.edu/ and electronically submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, up to three publications, and the names and contact information of five references along with the faculty application. Review of applications will begin November 1, 2008, and continue until the position is filled.