The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for a sixth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in September 2024. 

The Stone Center is an official research center within the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The Center’s postdoctoral program enables scholars with a recent Ph.D. to spend two years producing empirical research on topics related to socio-economic inequality in the United States, internationally, or both. This research will contribute to the growing national and international conversations on socio-economic inequality, social mobility, and feasible strategies for furthering fair, effective, and efficient policy and institutional change. The scholars will have the CUNY title of Research Associate. 

This year’s call requests applications for two different positions. Qualified applicants may apply to both.

The first position is open to candidates who conduct research on wealth: distributions of wealth, wealth inequality, and wealth concentration; intergroup wealth disparities (e.g., by gender, race, ethnicity, migration status); determinants (including public policies) and consequences of wealth accumulation; and estate, inheritance, and gift taxation.

See the full description and application for this position: Job ID 27282.

For the second position, 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

See the full description and application for this position: Job ID 27279.

CUNY encourages people with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women to apply. 

Each scholar will receive an annual salary of $87,000 and benefits that include health insurance provided by CUNY, funding to hire graduate students from The Graduate Center as research assistants, private offices with desktop computers, and additional support to help offset the costs of software, books and journals, and research-related travel. The work of the Stone Center, including the postdoctoral program, is supported by a generous gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation.

Applicants should have:

  • Ph.D. degree in economics, sociology, political science, public policy, or a related social science discipline. Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. no more than seven years prior to the application date, and must have their Ph.D. awarded by the start date.     
  • Existing research portfolio demonstrating interest in and experience with empirical, methodological, or theoretical scholarship on socio-economic inequality and/or social mobility.    
  • High level of empirical and statistical skills, with expertise in quantitative methods and experience with complex data sets.    
  • Excellent writing and communication skills.  

Applications are due by November 1, 2023