<div dir="ltr"><div>FOS,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm looking for a student (graduate or exceptional undergraduate) for an hourly paid position this summer. The pay is $15/hour, for up to 20 hours per week for 2-3 weeks, starting mid-May.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The student would be a capable social scientist, with excellent skills in finding<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_3341146059735756360gmail-il">demographic</span><span> </span>information and providing written summaries. Some informational needs that I envisage include:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Lansing area<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_3341146059735756360gmail-il">demographics</span>, 1900-present (with emphasis on the last 20 years)</li><li style="margin-left:15px">In- and out-migration patterns in Lansing (and lower Michigan), 1900s-present.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">De-industrialization, suburbanization and other changes to Lansing area residential patterns.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Any other relevant indicators, as developed from discussion with the team.</li></ul></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">If you or any of your colleagues, friends or peers can recommend somebody, I would be grateful for the lead. I have also advertised the position on the MSU undergraduate research portal, Venture: <a href="https://venture.msu.edu/projects/view/414">https://venture.msu.edu/projects/view/414</a></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div>All best,</div><div>Suzanne</div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Suzanne Evans Wagner<br>Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics<div>B-401 Wells Hall<br>Department of Linguistics and Languages<br>Michigan State University<br>East Lansing, MI 48824<br><br>Tel: +1 (517) 355-9739<br><a href="http://www.msu.edu/%7Ewagnersu" target="_blank">http://www.msu.edu/~wagnersu</a><br><a href="http://sociolinguistics.linglang.msu.edu" target="_blank">sociolinguistics.linglang.msu.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Office hours: <a href="http://swagner.youcanbook.me" target="_blank">http://swagner.youcanbook.me</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Associate editor, <a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan" style="font-style:italic" target="_blank">Linguistics Vanguard</a></span><br></div><div>Co-editor, <i><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSLC/" target="_blank">Routledge Studies in Language Change</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>