$70,000 - $75,000 yearly
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Postdoctoral Research Associate Location: Princeton, NJ Salary Range or Pay Grade: $70,000-$75,000/year Description The Department of Politics at Princeton University invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate position. The individual, who will work with Professor Nicholas Kuipers, and collaborate with Professor Alexander Sahn (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), will participate in a research project on historical transformations in local state capacity and public service delivery in the United States during the twentieth century. The postdoctoral research associate will oversee the construction of a longitudinal dataset based on newly digitized yearly municipal records. In particular, the postdoctoral researcher will oversee the project's data-processing pipeline, including the digitization, extraction, cleaning, validation, and standardization of information from historical sources. The project will make extensive...