Sunday, April 30, 2006

IR Job Market Discussion

In order to separate out rumors from discussion of the job market or the rumor mill itself, please comment here if you wish to comment on (or, most likely, complain about) the job market itself. All of the relevant comments from the IR Job Rumors Fall 2006 have been moved here. Since this is a process that currently must be done by hand, please post comments about the job market itself here rather than on other postings.

IR Rumor Mill Discussion

In order to separate out rumors from discussion of the job market or the rumor mill itself, please comment here if you wish to discuss the rumor mill itself. This includes complaints, suggestions, or compliments. All of the relevant comments from the IR Job Rumors Fall 2006 have been moved here. Since this is a process that currently must be done by hand, please post comments about the mill itself here rather than on other postings.

IR Fellowship Rumors Fall 2006

Institution Updated Status
Ohio State University (Mershon) Fellowship 2006-04-27
Rejections out
Harvard University, BCSIA Fellowship 2006-04-17
Offers made, rejections out
Princeton CGG 2006-04-15
Offers made, accepted
Harvard University, Olin Fellowship 2006-04-12
Offers made, rejections out
Stanford University, CISAC Fellowship 2006-04-12
Offers made, rejections out
Princeton University Fellowship (China) 2006-04-03 Offers made
Stanford University, CDDRL Fellowship
2006-03-24
Offers made
University of Southern California Fellowship 2006-03-22
Paul Fritz (Ohio State)
Yale University (YCIAS) Fellowship 2006-03-20
Rejections out
Duke University Fellowship 2006-03-20
Offers made, accepted
Princeton University Fellowship (PIIRS) 2006-03-16
Injoo Sohn (GWU)
UCLA 2006-03-14
Jeff Timmons
University of Oxford, UK Postdoc 2006-03-01
Nuffield: Offers made
Princeton CGG Fellowship
2006-03-01
Offers made

IR Job Rumors Fall 2006 (April-May 2006 Comments)

*new* [2006-04-02] Fellowship rumors have been split off into a separate IR Fellowship Rumors Fall 2006 post.

*new* [2006-03-30] Participants are reminded that the unit of analysis here is the job (or the job-year), and not the individual job-seeker or department. Please do not post rumors regarding how and why individual candidates or departments have made decisions, especially containing personal information; if you wish to discuss these matters, the IR Discussions blog may be a better place.

[2006-03-06] Please restrict postings here to information on interviews, offers, and acceptances (or queries for information) from public sources of information. (i.e., you should ask before posting something you heard over beer from someone at ISA). For general discussions of the job market, including salaries, please use the IR Job Market Discussion post. For discussions as to the merits (or lack thereof) of this blog, please use the IR Rumor Mill Discussion thread.

[2006-02-06] To prevent too many comments from building up, periodically a new post that summarizes all the comments will be placed at the top of the blog; to view old comments, see the posts from [October 16-November 17], [November 18-December 17], [December 18-February 06], [February 07-March 05], and [March 06-April 02], which contain old comments.

[2006-01-28] Additional rumor mills have been independently started, for American and Comparative Politics as well as Political Theory and Public Law. Cross-posting of CP information is probably a good idea, since a significant fraction of CP and IR jobs overlap (unlike CP and AP or IR and AP).

[2005-12-03] An increasing number of Comparative Politics posts are being made. While only posts that refer to jobs in the IR Job List Fall 2006 will be added to the master table below, contributors should feel free to post information about CP jobs, since there is substantial overlap.

[2005-11-20] To prevent comments being lost, please post all rumors here rather than on the individual rumor postings. Comments have been turned off on these postings.

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 Rumors link will take you to the rumor posting. If there is a link but no date in the Rumors column, no substantive information (e.g., a list of interviewees) has been received; dates are updated when new rumors appear. The table is sorted from most recent to oldest rumor.

[C] appears next to dates when additional posts appear to confirm an initial rumor of interviews. If you have independent confirmation of interviews being conducted at a university that does not have a [C] or a list of candidates, please post a comment. A [?] appears if information disputing a rumor has occurred.

Institution Updated
Status
Auburn University 2006-05-04 Will Waldorf (PhD UVa; Gordon College; Dartmouth)
University of Chicago 2006-05-03
Offer made to Ahmer Tarar, rejected.
University of Nevada, Reno 2006-05-02
Bob Ostergard (Binghamton)
Michigan State University 2006-04-26
Cristina Bodea (Rochester)
University of California, Los Angeles 2006-04-24
Robert Trager (Columbia)
DePauw University 2006-04-18
Closed
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University 2006-04-14
Laura Sjoberg (USC PhD/BC Law JD/Belfer PostDoc)
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale 2005-04-06
Offer made, rejected.
University of Toronto 2005-04-05
Closed
University of Oklahoma [1][2]
2006-04-04 [1] Gregory Miller (Ohio St)
[2] Yong Wook Lee (PhD USC; Brown)
University of Colorado-Boulder 2006-04-02
[1] Moonhawk Kim (Stanford)
[2] Aysegul Aydin (SUNY-Binghamton)
Seton Hall University [1][2][3][4][5]
2006-04-02 [Terrorism] Offers made, rejected
Providence College 2006-04-02
Ruth Ben-Artzi (Columbia)
Indiana University, Bloomington 2006-04-02
Brian Rathbun (PhD Berkeley; McGill)
Meredith College 2006-04-01
Jeff Martinson (Ohio State
Sweet Briar College 2006-03-30
Closed
Adrian College 2006-03-30
Philip Howe (PhD UCSD)
Michigan State University (James Madison)
2006-03-30
Matt Zierler (UWisc-Madison)
Dartmouth College 2006-03-23 [1] Bridget Coggins (Ohio State)
[2] Darryl Press
[3] Jennifer Lind
Towson University 2006-03-17

University of Kentucky 2006-03-15
Dan Morey (Iowa)
Northern Illinois University 2005-03-13
Y.K. Wang (Chicago)
University of Massachusetts Amherst 2006-03-09
Steven Watts (Cornell)
Providence College 2006-03-07
Offer made, rejected
Middlebury College 2006-03-07 Closed
Baylor University 2006-03-04
David Clinton (Tulane)
Bowdoin College 2006-03-02
Shelley Deane
University of Illinois-Springfield 2006-03-02

Iowa State University[1][2]
2006-03-02
[1] Closed [2] Yes
Oakland University 2006-03-01
Dong-hun Kim (Iowa)
Georgia State University 2006-03-01
Offer made, rejected
University of Michigan 2006-02-28

Georgetown University [1][2][3][4][5]
2006-02-27
[?] Bruce Hoffman (RAND)
Concordia University 2006-02-23
Offer made
SUNY, Cortland 2006-02-22

York College of Pennsylvania 2006-02-22

John Carroll University 2006-02-22
Cancelled?
Shippensburg University 2006-02-22
Cal Poly 2006-02-22

University of Victoria 2006-02-22

Naval Postgraduate School 2006-02-22
Kent State University
2006-02-22

Yale University 2006-02-22 [1] Susan Hyde (UCSD)
[2] Thad Dunning (Berkeley)
Clemson University 2006-02-21
Yes
University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
2006-02-21
Douglas Gibler (Kentucky)
DePaul University 2005-02-15 Leslie Wirpsa (USC)
California State University Fresno 2006-02-14
Colorado State University 2006-02-14 Alex Braithwaite (Penn State)
Université Laval 2006-02-07
Yes
Columbia University 2006-02-03
Tonya Putnam (Stanford)
Columbia University (IPE) 2006-02-03
Closed
Sam Houston State University 2006-02-02

Western Washington University [1][2]
2006-02-01
Bidisha Biswas (Maryland)
California State University Sacramento 2006-01-31[C]

California State University, Fullerton 2006-01-31[C]

California State University Chico 2006-01-31

Baldwin-Wallace College 2006-01-31

Pennsylvania State Erie Behrend College 2006-01-30
Yes
University of South Dakota 2006-01-30
Yes
Georgia Southern University 2006-01-29

Vanderbilt University 2006-01-26
Michaela Mattes (Rice)
Virginia Military Institute 2006-01-26 Yes
West Virginia University 2006-01-26
Christina Fattore (FSU)
University of Pennsylvania 2006-01-25 Andrew Kydd (Assoc.)
University of Utah 2006-01-25 Adam Luedtke (U Washington)
University of Arizona 2006-01-19
Faten Ghosn (Penn State)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006-01-19 David Singer (Harvard/Notre Dame)
St. John's University 2006-01-16
Yes?
University of Tennessee-Knoxville (Conflict)
2006-01-14
David Brule (Texas A&M)
University of Nebraska [1][2]
2006-01-14
[1] Elizabeth Dahl (American)
Grand Valley State University 2006-01-12
Yes
University of West Florida 2006-01-12
Closed
University of Pittsburgh [1][2]
2006-01-11
[1] Burcu Savun (Rice) [2] Closed?
Cornell University 2006-01-11
David Patel (Stanford)
Northeastern University 2006-01-10

University of Rhode Island 2006-01-10 [C]

University of Notre Dame
2006-01-08
 Sebastian Rosato (Chicago)
Carleton College 2006-01-08
Devashree Gupta (Cornell)
College of William & Mary 2006-01-07 Amy Oakes (Ohio State)
University of Georgia 2006-01-06 Brock Tessman
Arizona State University 2006-01-06
Yoav Gortzak (Ohio State)
Texas A&M [1][2] 2006-01-03
Shuhei Kurizaki (UCLA)
Elena McLean (Rochester)
University of Wisconsin [1][2][3] 2006-01-02

California State University Northridge 2005-12-30
Offer made (?)
University of Virginia 2005-12-22 Todd Sechser (Stanford)
Emory University 2005-12-22
Kyle Beardsley (UCSD)
University of Michigan (IPE) 2005-12-20

George Washington University[1][2][3] 2005-12-20 [1] Closed [2] Holger Schmidt (Columbia)
University of California, Davis 2005-12-20 Closed
Reed College 2005-12-19
Alex Montgomery (Stanford)
Trinity College 2005-12-18
Yes
University of Tennessee-Knoxville (IPE/IO)
2005-12-16

University of Chicago (PubPol) 2005-12-13
University of Vermont 2005-12-08 Michelle Commercio (UPenn)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2005-12-06
American University (Intl Peace) 2005-12-04

University of Kentucky PSD 2005-12-04
Robert Farley
American University (CIS) 2005-12-03

Florida State University 2005-12-02

George Fox University 2005-11-30

Millikin University 2005-11-28

University of California, Los Angeles 2005-11-28

University of Texas Austin 2005-11-27

George Mason University 2005-11-24
Yeshiva University 2005-11-22

Dickinson College 2005-11-20
Yes
American University (Intl Comm) 2005-11-17

Clark University 2005-11-16[C]
Hofstra University 2005-11-09

George Fox University 2005-11-09

Northern Arizona University 2005-11-09

University of West Florida 2005-11-09

Lehigh University 2005-11-07

University of Delaware 2005-11-04
University of California, Berkeley 2005-11-01
California Institute of Technology 2005-10-18

New York University 2005-10-17

Friday, April 28, 2006

University of Nevada, Reno Rumors

[2006-04-28] Re: SUNY Binghamton
To be clear this faculty member who is leaving for UNevada-Reno is a Binghamton PhD (1999) who has taught at Binghamton for the last several years.
For other faculty members that have arrived and left in the 5 years I have been here--nearly all of those members left because of spousal issues (spouse could not find work in Binghamton or spouse/faculty forced to commute from too far away or spouse did not like NY winters).
The fact that good scholars like McDonald, Cinganelli, and Regan have been around for many years is testament to the Binghamton dept. Moreover, I know that some junior facutly members have been offered positions elsewhere, arguably at 'better' schools, but still chose to stay suggests that there is a good dynamic going on.
[2006-04-30] Bob Ostergard is leaving Binghamton? [2006-05-02] Bob is leaving Binghamton.

Friday, April 14, 2006

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

[2006-04-14] Laura Sjoberg (USC PhD/BC Law JD/Belfer PostDoc) has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University for 2006-2007, and a tenure-track position at Virginia Tech following that.

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Providence College Rumors

[2006-04-02] re Providence College, 1st offer was made to Ruth Ben-Artzi (Columbia PHD) who did not immidiately accept. 2nd candidate rejected the offer, and Ben-Artzi then accepted.

Indiana University, Bloomington Rumors

[2006-04-02][2006-03-27 Moved from Indiana University, Bloomington post] Job is filled by Brian Rathbun, Ph.D. from Berkeley, but who has been teaching at McGill