Student assistant (f/m/d) 41 h/month limited to 2 years reference code: StudentRA_Sociology_2026

Freie Universität Berlin; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 17.000 - 22.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Freie Universität Berlin's sociology department at the John F. Kennedy Institute seeks a student assistant to support teaching and research in the political economy of the United States, combining data-driven approaches with institutional analyses of capitalism and welfare states.

The role includes locating, collecting, harmonizing, and systematizing historical data from various sources, analyzing data with statistical software, and contributing to written texts for ongoing research projects.

Qualifikationen

• Familiarity with quantitative data and historical data sources.
• Knowledge of descriptive statistics and experience with statistical software.
• Enrollment in a North American Studies or sociology/economics program at a German university.

Aufgaben

• Assist instructors in teaching and research.
• Research and obtain literature for research purposes.
• Locate, collect, harmonize, and systematize historical data from primary sources.
• Analyze data using statistical software and contribute to writing texts.

Kenntnisse

Literature research

Data collection

Data analysis

Statistical software

Ausbildung

North American Studies enrollment

German higher education enrollment

Tools

R

Stata

Python

Jobbeschreibung

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 quantitative data and, ideally, with historical data sources
• Knowledge of descriptive statistics and experience with statistical software (e.g. R, Stata or Python)
• Interest in economic sociology and political economy
• English language proficiency at level C1 or above; proficiency in more than one additional European language at level B1 or above is an advantage
• Enrollment in a North American Studies programme with an interest in sociology, a sociology programme or a related social science programme, particularly economics
• Enrollment at a German higher education institution