Research Associate (Postdoctoral Scholar) in Economic Inequality - Stone Center on Socio-Econom

GENERAL DUTIES

Conducts academic research in connection with CUNY programs; may assist faculty, staff, and students in conducting research and lead research efforts involving others.

• Develops research plans and proposals and participates in acquiring funding
• Collects, analyzes, and assures validity of data
• Writes progress reports; writes and publishes findings
• Collaborates with internal and external colleagues
• Adheres to standards for safety and hygiene and ethical conduct as defined by the University and relevant outside parties

Research Associate

Exempt

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is the focal point for advanced teaching and research at CUNY, the nation's largest urban public university. The Graduate Center’s commitment to research and scholarship for the public good is exemplified by its more than 30 centers, institutes, and initiatives, including its Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), a 200,000 square‑foot facility in upper Manhattan, designed to promote collaboration among scientists in five areas of growing importance in serving the community: nanoscience, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience, and environmental sciences.

The Graduate Center (GC) benefits from highly ambitious and diverse students and alumni—who in turn teach hundreds of thousands of undergraduates every year. Through its public programs, the Graduate Center enhances New York City’s intellectual and cultural life.

The James M. and Cathleen

D. Stone Center on Socio‑Economic Inequality conducts and promotes quantitative research using inequality as a lens on society, politics, and the economy. The core faculty, the affiliated and postdoctoral scholars, and the students working within the center share a commitment to scholarship that is data‑driven, interdisciplinary, and policy‑oriented, often addressing questions that are cross‑nationally comparative or global in scope.

• Is home to a group of six core faculty members (senior scholars) who teach sociology, political science, and economics, and who—with graduate students and external affiliated scholars—are actively engaged in research addressing diverse aspects of socio‑economic inequalities;
• Hosts the US Office of LIS, the cross‑national data center in Luxembourg, with socio‑economic microdata from 60+ countries;
• Organizes public programs related to inequality and collaborates with the Graduate Center’s Office of Public Programs on several large events each year.

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The Stone Center seeks to hire a Research Associate (Postdoctoral Scholar) working on economic inequality.

In this cycle, priority will be given to candidates whose work focuses on one or more of the following:

• global inequality, currently or historically;
• economic inequality in historical perspective;
• economic inequality in China.

The postdoctoral scholar will have the opportunity to work individually on their own projects, and also to collaborate with Professor Branko Milanovic, as well as with other Stone Center senior scholars and postdoctoral scholars, as appropriate. This position reports to a Professor and is a full‑time two‑year position beginning in August 2027.

In addition to the responsibilities listed under “General Duties” above, the scholar will:

• Conduct self‑directed research that contributes to the growing national and international conversations on inequality, and on feasible public and private strategies aimed at furthering fair and effective policy and institutional change;
• Engage with other Stone Center postdoctoral scholars to build community and share research;
• Work with the Center’s communications team to produce and disseminate public‑facing scholarship, via a mix of social media tools and public programming;
• Perform other duties, occasionally, as requested by Stone Center senior scholars or staff.

All full‑time and part‑time CUNY staff are expected to work in‑person at their campus office 80% of their work time. For full‑time staff, this is equivalent to 8 out of 10 days of in‑person work in a…