Open Rank Professor of Political Science – Quantitative Methods for Social Science

Position Summary
Quantitative Methods for Social Science (Open Rank) The Department of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a full-time tenure track Open Rank position in the field of Quantitative Methods for Social Science beginning August 1 2027. Our goal is to hire the strongest candidate available who is doing interesting and important scholarship in this field and who can contribute to the Departments mission and campuss strengths in social sciences. Candidates should have an active research agenda with strong promise of publication in leading venues as well as excellent teaching credentials. We seek scholars whose work has the potential to make influential contributions to the discipline and who can contribute to methods training across the empirical subfields. We are interested in candidates who advance quantitative political science whether by applying established methods creatively and rigorously to substantive questions or by developing new approaches to data analysis. We welcome applicants working across a variety of approaches particularly computational and Bayesian and with a range of data including text survey and panel addition to maintaining an ongoing research program the successful candidate will be expected to teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and to participate actively in departmental activities.