Rumors, discussions, and commentary related to jobs and fellowships in International Relations
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Lawrence University Fellowship
American University of Beirut
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Australian National University Fellowship
University of Auckland
Monday, November 28, 2005
University of Kentucky Rumors
[Anonymous 2005-12-12] A third candidate turned down an offer from Kentucky.
[Anonymous 2005-12-14] Kentucky has only had to rejections, not three, with one being Susan Hyde. They are leaning towards going back into their pool.
[Anonymous 2005-12-21] I just heard that another candidate rejected an offer from Kentucky -- their fourth rejected offer
[Anonymous 2006-01-09] I have heard from two different sources that Kentucky is going back into its pool.
[Anonymous 2006-01-09] I heard second or third hand that someone turned down a senior hire at Kentucky. Is this true? Which search? Reason?
[Anonymous 2006-01-09] From a good friend in the department. Kentucky rejected a counter offer made by someone for one of the senior spots. The counter offer was way out of line for this person's rank.
[2006-02-01] Kentucky closed the senior search and is looking at two junior instead, according to people in the department.
[2006-02-10] Kentucky is brining 3 new people out in the next few weeks.
[2006-02-13] Kentucky has contacted the next group they are bringing out.
[2006-02-14] Dan Morey is interviewing at Kentuck in the next two weeks.
[2006-02-22] Can anyone confirm the following story? Apparently, Kentucky interviewed 6 people, made 4 offers, and has no acceptances. They are now interviewing 3 more. [All of this came out on this website above.] Well, I just heard the craziest thing: since two slots are still unfilled, they are going to make an immediate offer to any of the 3 new candidates who pass muster, without waiting for all of the interviews to be completed. Is this true? Is it even legal? I guess at least you know that, if you get an interview, you get an offer!
[2006-02-22] This discussion about Kentucky is a good example of the danger of these blogs. It is all based on false information. First, Kentucky has made three offers, not four. Yes, they were all turned down, but one was to Susan Hyde and the other two were to people who were in tenure track jobs. Second, Kentucky is NOT making an offer after only interviewing the first of the three additional candidates. That information is obviously being spread by someone who is trying to ruffle some feathers. Third, the Kentucky search is actually two searches - a Comparative search and an IR search. Kentucky initially interviewed 3 for each field, made a total of three offers, and now has invited three more. The first candidate was a Comparativist, the second two IR. The prevailing view in the department is that the first candidate is not competing with the next two, hence the department was given PERMISSION to make an offer to the first candidate, but they decided to wait untile more people came in precisely because of this blog. The moral of this story is - don't believe everything you read on this blog and don't read too much into why a department does or does not make an offer to you.
[2006-02-24] I do not know who is posting all of this "inside information" about Kentucky but your blog's source is (intentionally or not) misinforming you about what is happening at UK. I will not bother to rebut all the garbage in here, but I will say that (1) UK chose to go after some superb people in the Fall, even though they were longshots, because of a consensual commitment to research excellence, and (2) The people being interviewed this Spring have been invited NOT because of a perception that the lines were at risk but because they were strong scholars who had been on the department's radar from the beginning.
[2006-02-26] Do we know what's happening at Clemson and Auburn yet? I heard they made offers in American Politics. Do they plan to fill their other jobs too? Is it true that Morey and Bodea are interviewing at Kentucky next week? Or has Morey taken the GSU job? Anyone know the interview list at VTech?
[2006-02-26] Regarding the 2:25 PM post above: I know Bodea interviewed at Kentucky in the fall. She must have turned them down without another offer because she recently accepted at MSU according to a post above. I have no idea on Morey.
[2006-02-27] Regarding the 7:30 PM February 26 post above: Kentucky interviewed six but, depending on which claim you believe, made offers to three or four people. I don't see how anything "must" have happened with regard to one visitor. It's probably not safe to assume something
[2006-02-28] Just so the correct information is out there... Kentucky sent two offers out late last week. Both are in IR.
[2006-03-01] Kentucky hasn't made any offers yet to the latest set of candidates. This blog has deteriorated into a complete joke, but I suspect most people recognize this by now.
[2006-03-01] I have no idea why someone would choose to post that Kentucky has made two offers when it's a total fabrication. But you can't blame internal confusion caused by "in-fighting" for that sort of misinformation when the decision was scheduled for a faculty meeting that hadn't happened yet.
[2006-03-05] One of my graduate students interviewed in the latest round for the Kentucky job. Word I received was that their dean and the department disagreed on 1 or 2 candidates, and they are unsure of what to do next (as of Friday).
[2006-03-05] I'm in the department at UK and I don't think the last post is true at all (about the disagreement over 1-2 candidates). Things are moving forward.
[2006-03-05] The one-week delay at Kentucky resulted because all three candidates were superb and we would have preferred to make offers to all of them. The department ultimately cannot hire three people this year, though, so two offers will go out shortly. I expect that the erroneous 5:00 AM March 05 post came from our stalker and not from one of the professionals who mentored our three excellent candidates.[2006-03-15] Dan Morey (Iowa) has accepted a job with the University of Kentucky. http://myweb.uiowa.edu/dmorey/
University of Exeter
London School of Economics (DESTIN)
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Australian National University
University of Adelaide
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Georgetown University (Qatar Director)
London School of Economics (Global Politics)
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Olivet Nazarene University
Syracuse University
Seton Hall University
Valparaiso University
Georgetown University (Qatar)
Monday, November 21, 2005
Dartmouth College Rumors
[Anonymous 2005-12-05] Dartmouth is also interviewing Ann Towns (Minnesota PhD/Göteborg University Post-doc).
[Anonymous 2005-12-26] Rumor has it that Dartmouth (IR) extended an offer to Bridget Coggins.
[Anonymous 2005-12-27] I heard interviews still occurring in January at Dartmouth
[Anonymous 2005-12-28] Coggins did get an offer. No information on any other details (acceptance, other interviews, or anything else).
[Anonymous 2006-01-17] Bridget Coggins (Ohio State) has accepted the position at Dartmouth.
[2006-03-08] Dartmouth extended three additional IR offers: Jennifer Lind, Branislav Slanchev, and Darryl Press
[2006-03-16] Dartmouth just hired Jennifer Lind and Darryl Press.
I heard this from a current grad student at Penn, who heard this directly from Press, so it's not just a rumor.
Dartmouth also still has an offer extended to Slantchev. They now have something like 8 IR people. Didn't they hire Bridget Coggins this year, too??
[2006-03-23] Dartmouth sources say Slantchev is deciding but they are very optimistic.
Saginaw Valley State University
Princeton University Fellowship (China)
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Dickinson College Rumors
Dickinson College has made an offer and the candidate accepted.
3:48 PM, November 20, 2005
Thursday, November 17, 2005
American University (Intl Comm) Rumors
Geoffrey Herrera (Temple University)
US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute
Naval Postgraduate School
Princeton University Fellowship (PIIRS)
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Texas A&M University Interviews
I heard that Texas A&M interviewed the following candidates for their assistant professor IR search:
Kyle Beardsley (UCSD)
Faten Ghosn (PSU)
Shuhei Kurizaki (UCLA)
Michaela Mattes (Rice)
Elena McLean (Rochester)
[Anonymous 2005-11-15] I heard that Shuhei Kurizaki (UCLA) has an offer at Texas A&M and a talk at Yale
[Anonymous 2005-12-21] I heard Texas A&M has an offer and acceptance on at least one of the IR jobs. [Anonymous 2006-01-03] Kurizaki and McLean accepted TAMU offers.
Carleton College Interviews
[2006-01-08] Devashree Gupta (Cornell) accepted the Carleton job.
Ohio State University Interviews
[Anonymous 2005-11-15] It *is* true that Steven Wilkinson will interview at Ohio State; he is currently up for tenure at Duke.
Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE)
Florida International University
University of Illinois-Springfield
Air War College (Visiting)
Air War College (Full)
Monday, November 14, 2005
University of Denver
Winona State University
Sunday, November 13, 2005
George Washington University Interviews
[Anonymous 2005-12-20] Holger Schmidt (Columbia) has accepted the transnational security position at George Washington University (Elliott School). The department decided not to make an offer for its general international security position.
London School of Economics
Department of Government
Development Studies Institute
Lectureship in Public Administration and Development
Salary: up to £39,300 pa inc.
Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Public Administration and Development, tenable from 1 October 2006.
This appointment will be tenure track and is open to candidates with research interests in any field of development management and comparative public policy. Expertise in Asia or the Middle East would be an advantage The successful candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete.
For a full application pack see http://www.lse.ac.uk/jobsAtLSE Alternatively phone +44 20 7955 6183 or email recruitment@lse.ac.uk Please quote ref AC/05/09
Closing date: 13 January 2006
Saturday, November 12, 2005
IR Job Rumors Fall 2006
This post will be updated as rumors come in, but will not necessarily appear at the top every time a new rumor appears; a permanent link to this post appears in the sidebar for easy reference.
Got a rumor on which school have invited candidates to interviews or have sent out job offers? Post a comment here. Names of candidates are not necessary, but can be useful.
Please include some information on the source of your knowledge that will allow others to evaluate your information. Are you a member of the department interviewing? A friend or colleague of a candidate? Please be as specific in your information and sources as possible (while maintaining anonymity if you wish).
Want to see a list of jobs?
See the IR
Job List Fall 2006 entry.
Note: The Institution links will take you to the original job posting; the Interviews/Job Talks and Offers/Accepts links will take you to the Interview or Offers postings. New postings are added when substantive information (e.g. a list of interviewees) is received; dates are updated when new rumors appear. The table is sorted from most recent to oldest rumor.
New: [C] appears next to dates when additional posts appear to
confirm an initial rumor. If you have independent confirmation of an
interview list that does not have a [C] or a list of candidates, please
post a comment.
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DePaul University Interviews
[Anonymous 2005-11-28] This job has been filled, if my sources are correct. [2006-02-15] One of the DePaul jobs went to Leslie Wirpsa (USC)
University of Georgia Interviews
November 29: Phillip Stalley
November 30: Brent Strathman
December 2: Brock Tessman
December 5: Josh Busby
December 6: Xi Chen
December 7: Michele Commercio (CP)
[Anonymous 2005-12-28] Just received a letter (dated December 19) saying the IR slot at the University of Georgia has been filled. Anyone know who filled it?
[Anonymous 2006-01-06] I think Brock Tessman got the Georgia IR job.
Cornell University Interviews
City College of New York (CUNY)
George Mason University (ICAR)
Thursday, November 10, 2005
University of Chicago (PubPol) Interviews
[Anonymous 2005-11-10] Stuart Jordan (Princeton) will give his talk, "Public Participation in Delegated Decisions." at the Harris School.
[Anonymous 2005-11-13] Susan Hyde (UCSD) will give a job talk at the Harris School on November 21.
[Anonymous 2005-12-13] The Harris School at the University of Chicago has scheduled two new talks for their junior IR search: Kevin Narizny (Princeton) and Bumba Mukherjee (Columbia). For details, see the Harris School online events calendar.
Adrian College
University of Southern California
University of Southern California Fellowship
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Hofstra University Interviews
Utah Valley State College
Oakland University
The Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure track position in International Relations with primary specialization in International Political Economy, at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin August 15, 2006. Secondary specialization is open; however, preference will be given to candidates who can fill departmental needs. Candidates with their Ph.D. in hand are preferred, but candidates who are ABD will also be considered provided that they can demonstrate they are near completion of the dissertation. Preference will be given to candidates with prior college or university teaching experience, and those who have demonstrated scholarly productivity.
The successful candidate should be prepared to teach an introductory course in international politics and upper-division courses in international political economy, development, IR theory, and to develop additional courses in his or her area of expertise. Normal teaching load for tenure-track faculty is five courses per academic year. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to take advantage of the department’s existing relationship with the Chinese Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, and to participate in a newly proposed interdisciplinary major in International Relations.
Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, copies of teaching evaluations and sample syllabi (if available), and no more than two samples of written work. Three letters of recommendation should be sent under separate cover.
The Department, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, offers an undergraduate degree program in Political Science (B.A.), in Public Administration and Public Policy (B.S.), and an accredited graduate degree in Public Administration (M.P.A.) with concentrations in Health Care, Local Government, Criminal Justice, and Nonprofit Management. Oakland University is a state-assisted, Carnegie I research institution offering baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degree programs to over 17,000 students. The 1400-acre campus is located in Rochester, Michigan a suburban community 26 miles north of Detroit. The University hosts a residential theater company, maintains an art gallery and historic mansion, and provides an outdoor venue for summer musical events. It is convenient to many social, cultural, and recreational activities in the metropolitan Detroit area. For more information about the department, College of Arts and Sciences, and Oakland University visit our website at www.oakland.edu.
Review of applications will begin January 9, 2006 and will continue until the position is filled. Send applications and letters of reference to: Dr. Peter F. Trumbore, Chair, IPE Search Committee, Department of Political Science, Oakland University, 418 Varner Hall, Rochester, MI, 48309-4488. Oakland University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
University of Wisconsin, Madison Interviews
[Anonymous 2005-11-12] Wisconsin (Madison) is only interviewing senior candidates this year. Page Fortna is the first of three.
[Anonymous 2005-12-21] Thad Dunning got an offer from Wisconsin.
[Anonymous 2006-01-02] UW-Oshkosh has made an offer and expects the candidate to accept.
Monday, November 07, 2005
University of Idaho
Sunday, November 06, 2005
University of Pennsylvania Interviews
Kyle Beardsley (UCSD)
Ahmer Tarar (Texas A&M)
Susan Hyde (UCSD)
David Singer (Notre Dame)
[Anonymous 2005-12-07] UPenn offered their junior IR position to David Singer.
[Anonymous 2006-01-19] Singer has turned down UPenn, and accepted MIT's offer instead.
[2006-01-23] As far as I know, Tarar was not offered the Penn job after Singer took the MIT position.
[2006-01-25] Andrew Kydd (Associate hire) has accepted an offer from Penn for the Fall of 2006.