Tuesday, December 12, 2006
A Shiny New Job Rumors Thread
Post away. But look at the previous thread before asking questions that might be answered there. Keep in mind that the job environment is fairly fluid right now and that the tally board may be very out of date.
Also, we'd appreciate lists of names for interviews, whether at places that interviewed some time ago or places that are still moving. This serves our general interest in complete information about the state of the market.
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1 – 200 of 213 Newer› Newest»Had anyone heard anything about the Idaho State search?
So did we ever find out what was up at Tulane with the IR/USFP position? They have not invited candidates, but do they have a short list? They extended the deadline, but I thought they might have some holdovers.
Missouri is interviewing Mike Finley, Clayton Thyne, and Amy Yuen.
Source: Departmental email announcing job talks.
Does anyone know if Bethel University made an offer. They had an interview, then nothing...
Is there any info on who is interviewing at DePauw?
Hobart-William Smith interviewed 6 candidates in IR and comparative and made offers to 2.
Re Tulane message above, I don't think its an IR/FP position but rather two separate positions. FP is Asst/Assoc. Someone posted yesterday that interviewees had not been invited yet for FP. Their extension of the deadline by one month makes me wonder if there are concerns about the quality/qunatity of the pool.
Re Tulane: Heard they extended deadline to get a larger pool accross ranks (3rd hand source). Seems like 7:00AM may be correct. What I do not know is if they have contacted anyone post-extension.
I don't know if the Oklahoma State listing there is supposed to be the University of Oklahoma (joint political science/area studies) job, but if so, S. Yadav is one of the interviewees.
Did Claremont make any offers? What happened there?
You're right, we think this is supposed to be University of Oklahoma. If anyone can clarify, please let us know.
Claremont McKenna had its last job talk on December 11. All CMC job talks are within-department only and not are not publicly advertised, though the candidates' names are known within the department. An offer should be forthcoming shortly. Source: Visitor in the department.
This is to clarify that the listing for Oklahoma State University should say "University of Oklahoma." OSU still is contacting its short-list candidates to invite.
Any news on George Mason (European CP/IR job)
The six names for the two Hobart jobs were:
-Guillermina Seri (Florida)
-Geoffrey Whitehall (Hawaii)
-Kikuye Hamayotsu (ANU)
-Vikash Yadav (Penn)
-Stacey Yadav (Penn)
-Timothy Pachirat (Yale)
Source: College's website
Anything on Hofstra?
Does anyone know if Vassar is finished interviewing? Offers before New Year's?
To respond to a question on the previous thread, Denison has held at least some interviews.
Source: friend of a candidate
Any news on CSU-Chico?
Any news on Marshall? Did they interview anyone?
An MIT grad student told me they've made an offer in their search.
Here's an interesting factoid--not only did Hobart interview 2 people named Yadav, but there are 3 on the market this year. What are the chances of that?
Two Yadavs are married to each other, so not so surprising...
Yadav also is not the most uncommon name in in India, a pretty huge country!
Vassar has made an offer. Source: search committee
Any news to share on the searches at Oklahoma State, Mississippi State, and Chapel Hill's War and Peace program?
8:25 pm, who's the third? There seems to be a V Yadav, I assume Vikash and Stacey.
One of those Yadavs also interviewed at James Madison University for the Middle East position.
I thought Yadav was Israeli...
This is starting to sound like the American and Comparative blog.
8:03am: Good point. Let's stop this discussion now. Although none of this has gotten inappropriate yet, and we suppose it does serve some marginal informational purposes, we're really stepping outside of the core mission of this thread.
Received rejection letter from American-SIS (Foreign Policy). Says they have "interviewed selected candidates," and that they have completed their review of applications.
Columbia? (IR general, not IPE) Any word whether there is any movement (it's either not going on, is very much under the radar, or delayed.)
Jacob Shapiro (Stanford) interviewed at Princeton.
Source: Friend of the candidate.
Georgia State has already interviewed three candidates.
Source: friend of a candidate
James Madison extended its offer.
Source: friend of candidate
What is going on the the UC Riverside searches?
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Ripon College has extended an offer to [redacted].
Source: Name identified in rejection letter.
The University of Texas' offer has been accepted.
UCSD is proceeding with an offer at the senior level. No offers will be made at the junior level. Source: e-mail to faculty.
Haverford has decided to continue search into next semester.
Catholic University has begun scheduling interviews
Marietta is setting up interviews. Confirmed today. Thought I heard it before here, but can't find it on the big board.
The University of Texas' offer has been accepted.
Day-um.
Source, please?
I believe it should actually read:
*An* offer from the University of Texas has been accepted.
As I understand it, they made two offers.
Hello, has anyone heard about Clark University's International Development/Social Change position? It was advertised as an open-ended search with apps review beginning on Oct 1; as yet I've been unable to find status updates on any of the blogs. Thanks!
Swarthmore has cancelled their search for the year.
Note: The chair called it an "IPE" search- which is wierd because it was not advertised that way. Bucknell did the same thing, I think, do an IPE search but not call it that. Annoying.
Source: Email from the department chair.
Someone said the Haverford search may go into the next semester. Where is the original announcement?
It's not on EJobs or the department web site.
Any news on Saginaw Valley State U. They had a short list. Have they invited people to campus?
With regard to the 12:45 PM post, an announcement for Haverford can be found at the site below. If other announcements are no longer on Ejobs, you might want to search through the institution's employment web site as I did for Haverford.
http://www.haverford.edu/provost/adhocpolisci.htm
Seasons greetings!
Has anyone heard anything about the position at John Cabot in Rome?
6:09: yes, there is. Alternatively, we could make sure that all relevant threads have a quick link from the navbar. If people want us to move the tally board off the front page, we'll experiment with doing so when we do our next round of updating tomorrow.
The University of Rhode Island's offer (IR) has been accepted.
Elizabethtown's position has been filled. Source: email from their HR dept.
I received a letter today from Brown, which indicates that they "were not able to fill the position at this time" and that the "faculty will meet soon to discuss the future of the search" and perhaps "authorize the position to be reopened next fall."
Any news on Univ Colorado, Boulder's four positions IR/polisci?
Offers are out on all of the CU positions.
8:34: CU?
CU = University of Colorado
9:11: this is probably an appropriate topic for the job-market discussion thread. But, in brief, you can't read too much into these kinds of things. A great many factors in committees can produce failed outcomes.
We recommend this post by one of the first academics to link to the IR Rumor Mill. One caveat: we think he's dead wrong about cover letters.
which schools still haven't even invited candidates for on-campus interviews?
Does anyone have information about the status of the Mississippi State search? I don't see any reference to it on the Market Summary Board...
UT-Austin LBJ started interviewing a couple of weeks ago.
I got an email from Rochester, saying "We have now completed this year's searches, and I do not anticipate that we will be inviting any additional candidates to Rochester during this search season." Don't know if that means they have made an offer, or that they gave up the search.
Re: 8:20. I heard that Rochester decided not to hire anyone in IR this year.
Univ of Missouri has made an offer, and it has been accepted. Source: member of the department.
Michigan does not intend to make any additional invites this year. Source: email from department chair (forwarded to mods)
Lafayette has decided not to make an offer this year to any candidates, and will instead hire a visiting assistant professor.
Source: mass email from department secretary to all candidates.
If "additional" refers to the interviews listed on the table on this blog (many of which are not IR) the previous message is wrong - both in its assertion and in its source. The chair did indeed send out an e-mail yesterday but it said nothing close to what 11:03 said.
A letter in today's mail from Georgia State (dated 12/21) indicates that they have filled their International Politics position.
Sweet Briar has offered, and the offer was accepted.
Merry Xmas to all job seekers!
.. and Happy Hanukkah and Happy Eid for those who celebrate!
Merry Christimas to all:
Staten Island is circulating an email saying they just started their IR search (Due 12/15). They will not be making contact until late Jan.
I received a letter from Concordia College Moorhead that they have filled their position.
Middlebury has made an offer, which was accepted.
Rhode Island offered the IR job and then the Comparative job to one candidate, who declined them.
Who accepted the Middlebury job?
Remember our policy on revealing this information... if a member of the Department or the newly hired academic contact us directly, we will post that information on the board.
Speaking of which: Happy Holidays. The board will get some major updating today.
Am I the only one for whom the table is overflowing into the right column with the links? (And so the denouement column is mostly overwritten and hardly legible at all.)
We can't replicate the problem. What browser are you using (and please post your response in the IR Rumor Mill Discussion thread)?
Northwestern has made an offer
I think the Ohio University position listed in the table as senior is junior. The announcement is for an assistant professor tenure track job.
Any information on Long Island? On UNC Chapel Hill?
UC Riverside has an extended an offer. First hand knowledge.
UC Riverside: which position was this for?
The overflow occurs with Firefox.
Has anyone heard anything about the University of Central Florida?
Any updates on DePauw?
Has anyone heard anything more about UMass? I know that they said that they would be meeting a few weeks ago to decide their next step.
I believe that UCF has contacted at least some candidates to arrange interviews in the next few weeks.
Did Duke extend any offers in IR? Any chance they will go junior if their senior search doesn't work out?
What's up with Stanford IR?
UMASS made an offer to a theorist. It was accepted. Don't know if they will also hire in IR for those open positions.
We've received a rumor to the following effect: UMass has had some comparativists turn down offers.
We rejected the post because it included names which we have yet to confirm.
The Colorado offer has been declined by both candidates who were interviewed.
We just rejected a comment that provided a bunch of personal information on a hire. The post wasn't completely out of bounds, but please remember to check the tally board. In this case (Georgetown security studies, junior), the information is already posted as a confirmed hire.
Any news on Marshall?
Any news on Marshall?
We ARE Marshall!
If you are Marshall, hire 11:51 already.
Do internships in DC or policy publications help or hurt you on the academic job market?
Marshall has two candidates coming out sometime soon. Not sure if they have contacted, or will contact, a third.
5:27, I'm guessing that you are early in your graduate career, so it's great that you're already tuned into the market discussions. In my experience, practically no doctoral students do internships during graduate school. I did one after my first year because I wasn't sure that I would stay in my program, but after I decided to stay, I never put it on my CV. Your summers are better spent on research, or even summer teaching- internships just don't have much value for most academic positions.
On policy publications, this is more iffy. Most mainstream research departments don't value them like peer reviewed journal pubs, but some places might see them as positive if they are in addition to peer reviewed articles. In a standard research department, though, they might even hurt you because they are seen as taking away from "real" research pubs (for better or worse).
That's my $0.02.
An exception to 8:44's generally good discussion is that a lot of IR/security people have done RAND summer work (Walter, Press, Goemans, etc). Peer-reviewed articles are the coin of the realm - as long as you've got that, the policy stuff can be a nice plus but never decisive.
5:27pm. There are many paths to a tenure-track job. Some include a detour thru Washington DC. (You can learn much from the military industrial complex!)The key is knowing when to abandon ship or to stay the course.
Happy Trails!
This should really go on the job market discussion, but I'll weigh in this way. Just look at two of the junior candidates who got the most interviews, in the security studies type jobs. Google their C.V.s. It certainly didn't hurt them.
Rochester just sent out an email saying they have concluded their searches for the year. No further interviews will be done.
UC Riverside made an offer for the Ethnic Nationalism position.
I beleive that they have a second IR/ CP search that closes sometime this month.
Is there any news on Delaware? Its status on the big board has been the same for a while now.
For crying out loud, what's up with Duke?! They interviewed weeks and weeks ago. Is the Dean the bottleneck or is it inside the department?
I heard (second hand) that Denison has made an offer.
Duke's not the only one...there are a whole bunch of schools that finished interviewing at the beginning of December and haven't yet made offers. Poor form it is.
A friend of mine who is at Duke claims the Department is struggling big time with a less than stellar Dean. Apparently the Dean in question is very obstructionist. Now, on top of that, their IR search was apparently a disaster (2 of the 4 candidates pulled out AFTER their interviews had been scheduled).
Duke's not the only one...there are a whole bunch of schools that finished interviewing at the beginning of December and haven't yet made offers. Poor form it is.
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How exactly do you know that? If you're relying on the Big Board to reach your conclusion, then you are likely relying on incomplete information. It's possible offers haven't been made. It's equally or perhaps even more possible that offers have been made, but haven't been reported on this blog. Best I can tell, the administrators of this blog are not clairvoyant.
I know (not based on the tallyboard, which the blogmasters admit is incomplete) of at least 4 places that interviewed already and haven't made decisions or are waiting on deans.
For those of us reliant on the Big Board for news, what are these institutions?
Idaho sent rejections.
Has anyone heard about the George Mason CP/IR position?
The IR/CP job at Washington State has been filled. Source: rejection letter.
Marshall is interviewing three very soon.
In addition to Jon Pevehouse and Bear Braumoeller, Ohio State is also interviewing Erik Gartzke and, on separate tracks, Fiona Adamson and Sergei Prozorov.
Franklin & Marshall has hired for its CP/IR position (Source: Rejection letter)
it seems like some comments here aren't making it to the big board. should we be emailing the ir mill directly? Example: I got a rejection letter weeks ago from Concordia Moorhead that they filled their search and posted the info to the blog but the school is not even on the board (i know it's small but alot of us here at the Univ of Minnesota care if they've hired! what can we do to help make the board complete?
OK State is interviewing. Source: department
It does appear that there is a bit of a slant toward the R1s on the board. I have posted info that never made it as well. Still, the mods are providing a valuable service. We just have to look at the posts rather than the big board if we are not fortunate enough to be in the hunt for an R1
We often miss information when we sweep the threads and gmail. We often reject comments that provide information but violate some portion of our guidelines. We may also mistakenly reject a comment. So if your comment meets our criteria but gets rejected, just repost.
What's happening at Claremont? Did somebody get an offer? Did they make a decision?
Claremont made an offer
East Carolina is scheduling additional interviews
Boston made an offer and trying to get approval for another one...both candidates specialize in China...
Re: BU
Didn't they have only one China candidate?
you dont have anything listed for alabama. i know they have interviewed at least one candidate.
American and Comparative rumor mill is reporting offers went out for Yale slots. Anyone know who received offers (comparative)?
Holy Cross sent out rejection letters.
Anybody hear about Tampa?
Any word on UNC or Miss ST?
I can confirm that BU has made two offers and they are waiting for clearance from the dean.
I can confirm that BU has made two offers and they are waiting for clearance from the dean.
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Huh? At every institution I know of, departments can't make offers until AFTER they've gotten clearance from the dean. What happens if somebody accepts an offer only to have the dean say there's no money for the offer?
That actually happened at UCLA a couple of years ago, in a Comparative Search.
Any word on Purdue Calumet?
Austin Peay?
Debra Shulman (Yale) accepted an offer for the Mid-East position at William and Mary. Source: faculty member in the department.
"At every institution I know of, departments can't make offers until AFTER they've gotten clearance from the dean. What happens if somebody accepts an offer only to have the dean say there's no money for the offer?"
Well, there are such things as "verbal offers", properly caveated to note that administrative approval remains necessary. Lots and lots of departments do this.
The American and Comparative blog claims that William & Mary (Middle East position) have hired one of the candidates (the name specified there as well).
North Carolina has interviewed at the senior level (IR/Middle East) but has not made an offer yet. They have interviewed at least one person for the junior position
North Carolina has interviewed at the senior level (IR/Middle East) but has not made an offer yet. They have interviewed at least one person for the junior position
Colorado is going back into the pool and issuing new campus interview invitations. Both candidates previously interviewed declined CU's offer.
MIT's offer was rejected. Source: an email to the department.
For our civil war people, the American/Comparative blog reports Roger Petersen is giving a senior job talk at UChicago. From what I've heard second-hand this rumor is likely to be true.
Some clarification on the Colorado post. Have they already issued new interviews or do they plan to issue new interviews in the near future? Thanks.
Colorado: calls not made yet. Probably late this coming week.
Bucknell has made an offer.
The Naval Academy has made an offer.
Tulane's offer was declined
Is there any early news on some of the places with January deadlines like Virginia Tech or Denison (International Studies)?
Does anyone know the outcome of the mcgill search?
Denison already hired.
Source: Rejection letter I got today.
Any news about Lafayette and Long Island?
There was a McGill law and politics search - anyone know anything about that one?
6:14- Denison had two positions - an IR position in Political Science and a position in International Studies.
Oxford has shortlisted candidates for interview. Other have already received rejection letters.
Is that (Oxford) for the IR job? Or the postdocs?
Joanne Gowa is giving a job talk at Duke. (First hand knowledge).
Oxford IR job
Who got invites for the Oxford job?
Columbia interviewed Von Stein for its straight-up IR position a few weeks back. Source: firsthand.
Updates for the big board: MIT's offer was rejected, George Washington's offer was accepted.
Thanks. We're in a difficult position here, because we have second-hand knowledge about the name of the candidate but we lack an "official" confirmation. Could someone please backchannel us with an authoritative statement about the candidate who accepted the GWU offer?
One of the interviewees for the Oxford IR position is Mark Hallerberg. Source: Emory's hall.
What is the email address to backchannel information?
That email address should really be on the home page and the FAQ.
Hasn't anyone heard anything about Mississippi State?
The email address is in the FAQ. It is written in "anti-spam." We will add it to the home page pretty soon, though.
The job listed for Trinity College Dublin is actually Assistant level not Associate as currently listed on e-jobs, also stricly an IR hire. Very low teaching loads (equivalent 1 and 1) and no tenure clock.
There is an error above. Colorado will likely be making new calls late _next_ week.
UMass' mega-search is slowing them down, or they're not getting the kinds of responses to offers that they'd hoped. They've just made more interview calls, which I assume constitute a second round.
UC Riverside made an offer for the Ethnic Nationalism position.
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Any idea if this was accepted? and who got it?
UMass' mega-search is slowing them down, or they're not getting the kinds of responses to offers that they'd hoped. They've just made more interview calls, which I assume constitute a second round.
Second-hand, I know that 'slow' isn't exactly the right word. But not every offer worked out - an inherent risk with open-rank searches.
Where did Gartzke end up?
Columbia extended an offer (IR slot) to Jana Von Stein.
Note on the above: we don't normally publish these rumors (see our discussion of our policies) but we have independent confirmation as per our guidelines for this one.
Brandeis rejection letter states search is over and position was accepted by Kerry Chase of Tufts.
Source: Letter received by me today.
Tufts rejection letter indicating they have filled the position.
UC Riverside's offer has been accepted for their Ethnic Nationalism position. (first hand info).
What is going on with Lafayette?
Has UMass interviewed anyone in IR? From all prior posts, it sounded as if CP had been the focus to this point.
Brandeis has hired.
On Monday January 29 Gowa removed herself from consideration for Duke's senior IR position. She was scheduled to interview at Duke on February 1.
Georgetown: Edmund Walsh School canceled its International Development search. Source: received letter today
I received a rejection letter from Tufts indicating that they have filled their international relations position in the Political Science department. They did not name their hire.
Tufts sent out letters that their IR position has been filled.
DePauw hired for their IR job.
Marquette has called their short list to see if they are still available for fly-outs.
Any news on the Stanford or UCLA searches?
Any news on Duke?
Tufts and Lehigh sent out rejection letters.
texas a&m recently interviewed a candidate from u of rochester, not m. bas.
Vincent Pouliot of U of Toronto has accepted the position at McGill.
(Source: dept email)
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