The appointment will be in a social science department in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and in one or more additional units to be determined based on the candidate's expertise.

The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships (BDP) Program (https://bdp.jhu.edu/) , made possible through a gift from Johns Hopkins University alumnus Michael R. Bloomberg, was established in 2013 (https://hub.jhu.edu/2013/01/26/bloomberg-gift/) as an ambitious investment in interdisciplinary research to bridge academic disciplines and open novel fields of inquiry to address issues of critical global importance. Starting from an initial cohort of 50 individual BDP positions, the program has more than doubled in size (https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/12/14/bloomberg-distinguished-professorships-program-expands/) through a faculty-led process for identifying areas of inquiry that are best pursued through new research clusters. In 2023, Johns Hopkins announced an expansion of this successful program (ht...