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Zentralinstitut John-F.-Kennedy-Institut - Sociology Department

Student assistant (m/f/d) 41 h/month limited to 2 years reference code: StudentRA_Sociology_2

Bewerbungsende: 06.10.2025

The sociology department at the John F. Kennedy Institute teaches and studies the political economy of the United States in comparative and historical perspective combining data-driven computational approaches with informed institutional analyses of capitalism, insurance finance, housing and welfare states while drawing on theories from Comparative Political Economy, historical and economic sociology.

Job description:
- Assist the instructors of the sociology department in teaching and research, especially in researching and obtaining literature for research purposes, data collection, maintenance and analysis.
- The student will be expected to contribute in locating, collecting, harmonizing, and systematizing historical data from primary sources of various countries and cities, in analyzing data using statistical software and in writing texts.

Desirable:
- Familiarity with working with quantitative data and ideally historical data sources
- Knowledge of descriptive statistics and statistical software (e.g. R, stata, Python)
- Interest in economic sociology and political economy
- Knowledge of more than one European language other than English is an advantage
- students in North American Studies (with an interest in sociology), students in sociology or related social sciences (esp. economics).
- Please send motivation letter, CV, transcripts, and writing sample (term paper, essay or thesis)

Weitere Informationen

Applications should be sent by e-mail, together with significant documents, indicating the reference code, in PDF format (preferably as one document) to Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kohl: sociology@jfki.fu-berlin.de or postal to

Freie Universität Berlin

Zentralinstitut John-F.-Kennedy-Institut

Sociology Department

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kohl

Lansstr. 7-9

14195 Berlin (Dahlem)

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Stellenausschreibung vom: 14.09.2025

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