A lot of schools don't formally list who is on a given committee beyond the chair. The contact info generally will indicate this. If it's not a prof then the committee is likely not going to be forthcoming. When I applied at one school the contact was the secretary in the office and she mentioned in an e-mail that I should direct some particular question to the committee chair. When I enquired who that was she replied that she mispoke and that the committee information was not to be shared.
Who knows if that's the norm? That was just my experience. I also know at my university that search committees are as secretive as skull and bones! Maybe we're weird...
My sense (from having applied to a number of jobs) is that it's about a 50/50 split on whether committees divulge the identity of the search committee chair.
Most of the information I've gotten about various committees has been completely back channel, either through my adviser or (older) friends from graduate school. It's still very opaque, but these contacts can usually find out who is on the committee at their institution at pretty low cost.
Does anyone have information on where Michigan State (James Madison College) is in the process? They sent emails saying that they had begun the review of applications, but that was a week or so ago.
I would recommend strongly against compiling info on search commmittee membership in a public forum. Search committees members generally do not mind being known to the candidates invited to interview, but they don't want to be bombarded with messages from people they don't know, especially antsy job candidates. However, if you are invited for an interview, it is perfectly legitimate to ask who is on the committee and the role they have in the hiring process. Also, there is nothing wrong with your advisor sending messages to people who he/she knows are on the committee to plug you informally. And if your buddy from grad school is on the committee, then a direct query is fine.
I second the comment at 10:17, or whenever it was- Bad idea to compile info on committee members in public forum.
But a point was raised earlier about contact departments about where they are in the search process- reviewing, sending invites, etc. I've not seen any comment on that. Do people think it's ok to check up once in a while, particularly with the SLACs given the dearth of info?
There is no need to contact any committee or department if they have not contacted you.
While curiosity is intense, little good can come from being needy or intrusive. If you are on the their long short-list, then they will call you if they lose or reject their first candidates. And they will not, if they don't.
The job process is very stressful, but calling folks is not going to make it less so.
I checked twice with one of the SLACs, and now I regret it. I've had fairly serious OCD for years, so it's tough for me not to check even more, but as a professional matter, I think most would agree that it's a bad idea. They will get to their decision when they get to it.
1) We appreciate the rationale, but we would not allow the rumor mill to become a site for the collection of information about the composition of committees;
2) At least one of us has "been there, done that" about contacting schools multiple times. Don't. You'll be annoyed with yourself afterwards;
3) That being said, the point of the rumor mill is to spread information and therefore avoid some of the agony of the job market. We have a LOT of blanks that we assume at least *someone* among our readers could fill in information for--at the very least, at the level of 'no decision yet' or 'interviews underway.' Please share :-);
4) Can we migrate the non-rumor discussions to the appropriate thread from now one?
The Penn interviews not listed on the big board are David Carter (Rochester), Jessica Stanton (Columbia), and Alex Weisiger (Columbia). Source: Penn grad student.
Minnesota has the list (4) but is waiting on approval from the interim Dean of Liberal Arts college (source- friend in the department). as of Friday, the grad students were not told of any upcoming interviews
One exception to "don't contact search committees" rule.
If you have an offer in hand from another school, my sense is it is considered acceptable to contact other schools you've applied to (that you would prefer to school A) and ask where their process stands. I.e., so you don't give an immediate yes to Mudville Community College if Harvard is still in play. Particularly if the other schools' deadlines are well past.
I also figure it's reasonable to call a school when you've actually _interviewed_ there and contrary to their assurance that they'd announce their decision the following week, 6 weeks later they haven't communicated with you at all. Yes that happened.
Any other word on interviewees for Loyola Chicago? The announcement seems new, any info on when interview requests were made? (e.g. a week ago, this morning, etc.)
I just noticed that APSAnet has an ad for two IR/Comp positions at Portland State University. Anyone here have an idea of what they are looking for? Anyone from one of the local PhD institutions got any ideas? The ad is real basic and rather vague! Someone retiring, dept. expanding, what?
Also, any word on Lewis & Clark's IA/Developing areas position? Last post was a week or so ago and just mentioned that the search was finishing its short list. Updates?
Many thanks to 11:07 for publishing the dates of the job talks at Harvard. I was wondering if we have any idea about what schools may have already completed all of their interviews? For example, schools like American and Catholic University seem to have published their lists long ago. Can we assume that they are now in the decision stage of the process?
Re: Canadian Universities Laval had its last candidate in today (8 nov) and the committee will recommend the final candidate to the deparment during the faculty meeting on 14 nov.
I have heard second hand (from a friend of a candidate whose name I can't divulge) that John Jay invited 4 candidates in early October and will be making a decision soon.
Earlier question about IPE position at Puget Sound: This is NOT in the political science department, but rather in a separate interdisciplinary program with its own faculty. Just a heads-up.
So the dept is its own thing? What implications follow from that? Since the job was posted on APSAnet presumably they want a political scientist or will at least consider one over, say, a Lit major. I guess I'm confused about the heads up part.
The real question is this: Has the dept. started making interview requests?
The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and James Madison College (at Michigan State University) have scheduled interviews and they are listed on their websites.
According to the Wiki for Comparative Politics, the following schools have started interviews for their IR/CP searches: Grinnell College, Beloit College and Fairfield University.
I saw the note about Swarthmore earlier. Any idea on when they started doing interview requests? Or still just rumor?
Also, any word on Colgate?
Oh, I also noticed someone mentioned the time of posting as a way to discern that someone might be abroad (I think it was relevant to the post). I'm not sure there is any relation to the time stamp and the real time. My postings show up with anything from a 4 to 6 hour time difference from when I post!
Does anyone know what the status of University of Michigan's open IR search? I know that when they posted the ad, they still hadn't secured the line. Are they still going to hire or have they canceled the search?
yeah, interesting about the new Princeton posting. Why post again... Even if they didn't like their first choice invitees, isn't it easier to just reach deeper into the files and pick a couple more names rather than pay for another ad...Don't they expect more or less the same people to apply again with the exception of those who've already gotten a few interviews and are relatively sure they'll get at least one offer they would accept...
"Anonymous said...Laval's faculty agreed on who will receive the offer at yesterday's faculty meeting. This person will be contacted next week. November 16, 2007 7:57 AM"
Re Princeton's new ad, I saw it in the apsa e-jobs and I think that's the one other postings were referring too (b/c they mention the same deadline). I'm copying it below:
Listing ID: 12763 Date Posted: 10/23/2007 09:58:00 Institution: Princeton University Type of Insitution: PhD Title of Position: Open and Multiple Ranks Starting Date: Fall 2008 Salary or Appointment Range: Competitive Geographic Region of the Institution: Northeast MidAtlantic Complete Position Description The Department of Politics at Princeton University invites applications from junior and senior scholars for positions as tenure-track assistant professor, or tenured associate or full professor in any subfield or specialty of the discipline. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and cv online at www.princeton.edu/jobs. If you prefer to send hard copies, or any supplemental materials, please forward to Helen Milner, Chair, Open Search Committee, Department of Politics, 130 Corwin Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Princeton is an AA/EO employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. We will begin reviewing applications on November 26, 2007. For information about applying to Princeton and how to self identify, please link to http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/Applicantsinfo.htm.
RE: James Madison If I am remembering correctly, they alread have a visiting assistant professor doing exactly what their job ad describes. Good luck to those of you who got a phone interview with them....
The heads-up is that this job won't be inside, or a joint appointment with, the political science department on campus--not unlike many international affairs or international studies programs across the country. The IPE program there has its own faculty, only some of which are political scientists.
This should be of interest to some of you on the market: I'm about to leave my position at an upstate NY institution at the end of this term (they have no idea yet), which will leave them lacking someone to teach both an Intro to IR course for next term (Jan-May 2008) and a Peace & Security course. Given this and the late timing, they might feel better about the situation (and me) if I gave them a CV or two of potential replacement candidates. You wouldn't be replacing a tenure-track person (I'm visiting only, which partially explains my departure) but a new t-t position is likely to emerge either for next year or year after. All this to say, if you're interested or need more info, contact me at politicalrisk007 (at) gmail.com -- obviously, I can't divulge my particulars but if you send your CV I could elaborate on some details of the potential job.
RE Puget Sound. It sounds like an interesting position. Count me in.
But onto other matters. I posted a note on our neighbourly Canadian IR blog a few days back looking for info on the job search at Ottawa. Seems the canucks aren't answering the phone at the moment, though. So anyone here got any details?
To the person inquiring regarding Canadian IR positions, specifically at U of Ottawa: if you're talking about the 6 positions at the new intl affairs school, given that the deadline was just 1 week ago (Nov 12), I wouldn't expect to hear anything soon. As well, as someone quite familiar with how Ottawa U works bureaucratically, do not be surprised if this gets drawn out considerably.
I'm about to reveal myself for the innocent novice (idiot) that I am: wasn't the John Jay IPE job application *deadline* in December according to apsanet? If that's the case, how can it be that they already made an offer?? Is this typical?
Yes, it's possible. I know of at least one big-name school that made an offer in one subfield to a candidate before even interviewing the three other candidates.
There are 6 positions? Christ! Where does that info come from? The apsa ad, if I remember right, said nothing about that. As for deadlines, well, I get distracted on these things.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Remember that even though we're job searching, we are very lucky people.
We get to work with interesting ideas, smart colleagues, and a good share of enthusiastic students, all in very nice surroundings. We have flexible hours, decent paychecks (or at least a chance at getting them), and the respect of our society. What more could we want, while so much of the world barely gets by day to day?
As John Woolman said (paraphrasing), just the trimmings of the vain world could clothe all the naked one. Our small, privileged academic bubble represents just a fraction of a fraction of the real world, and let's not forget how lucky we are to be in it.
I'll second the Thanksgiving comment and add that it applies to those of us who aren't American either!
Speaking of which, did anyone else applying to the post-doc at Oxford/Nuffield just get a letter saying the application material was received? I was led to believe that by mid-November that some initial weeding out would be occurring (i.e. invites for further submission of chapters and what-have-you). Any thoughts/news on that?
Kudos to the Thanksgiving post. Anyone who complains about this job please tell me what is better. I have worked dozens of different types of jobs from manual labor to corporate stuff. Being a Prof surely has to be one of the best jobs ever. Only people who go straight through from undergrad to the professoriate and know nothing of what work in the real world is like can think this job is anything less than a blessing.
Research where your interest lie, interact with the top third of all kids in the country, substantial time away from the office, the ability to go to cool places for research, felxibility that allows you to be there for family and friends. The stability of a regular paycheck but the freedom to design our own classes...
Yeah, there are frustrating parts but come on, what would you rather do? Why didn't you do it? More money...shoulda left with your MA. Respect? Tell it to cubicle land and the mushroom theory of management that pervades most offices.
Hooray for Academe! I certainly gave thanks this holiday for being able to be here.
did anyone else applying to the post-doc at Oxford/Nuffield just get a letter saying the application material was received? I was led to believe that by mid-November that some initial weeding out would be occurring (i.e. invites for further submission of chapters and what-have-you). Any thoughts/news on that?
I was informed Friday Nov 23 that I was on the "long list" and they requested more written work by Friday Nov 30.
Was the long list notice by e-mail or snail mail? I literally just got the letter saying my application was under review! I think I received it Monday even though I had mailed everything about a month and a half earlier.
Swarthmore has interviewed 2 IPE candidates, the week before Thanksgiving break. I hear they have 2 more coming in the week of Nov 26, but it could be just 1 more.
RE: Harvard KSG history of IR search- A previous comment says that talks have already been scheduled. Since I did not get any communication from KSG, should I assume I did not make it? Thanks..
re: 10.29am That's safe to assume, yes. For all of these jobs, the rejections can often arrive only months after the talks have been held and the position filled. Treating candidates fairly is not a priority for many departments.
James Madison conducted phone interviews prior to Thanksgiving but hasn't invited folks on-campus yet. They wanted to move quickly and send invites last week but, for some reason, haven't.
James Madison College at Michigan State held on-campus interviews. I don't know about James Madison University (in Virginia). Some posts are vague on which institution they are talking about.
I know from a reliable source that Ottawa U should have the shortlist for their 6 positions at the new graduate school of public and international affairs next week. I guess this means interviews will be in late december or january.
Does anyone know how long departments typically give candidates after they extended an offer to make a final decision? I ask this because I've been told by a chair that I am second in line for a job and its been (just slightly) more than two weeks since the original offer. The other person is an ABD just like me.
yes, we do edit messages that contain a great deal of inside baseball. We understand how annoying this is; we do appreciate it that some of our contributors are willing to share a great deal of information. But we want to avoid the IR Rumor Mill going the way of some of its peers.
That means we will edit information posted in good faith, if only to avoid ensuring discussions.
Unless such information is clearly important to those on the job market, for example, we almost always edit or block comments that discuss-- particularly with specific names--internal rifts, differences, etc. on committees.
So, the upshot is that recent contributors have noted that Duke failed to make an offer. If the rumor is true, then they did not make an offer. This is not atypical for senior-level positions.
In response to the question about offer length, some schools, including at least one very prominent one, give as little as two weeks and are very strict about it. Others give several weeks or months or however long it takes. It depends on the other options a school has, past precedent, and other factors.
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Cullen Hendrix (UCSD)
Ryan Kennedy (OSU)
Dursun Peksen (Missouri)
Source: faculty at UNT.
Is there any interest in beginning to accumulate information on search committees?
I would love to find out who is on the committees at University of Michigan, Cornell, and Rochester.
Does anyone have suggestions for how to get this information?
I heard from a friend in the department that Camber Warren (Duke) has an interview at Harvard.
University of Chicago is interviewing Jessica Weeks and Arnd Plagge (Rochester)
Source: Department email
Rochester has invited Katja Favretto (UCLA), Sarah Bermeo (Princeton), Mike Tomz (Stanford) and Jessica Weeks (Stanford) for interviews.
Source: Department Email
Any info on Grinnell?
Sarah Croco is interviewing at Wesleyan.
Croco also has an interview at Harvard.
source: candidate
re: Collecting info on search committees.
A lot of schools don't formally list who is on a given committee beyond the chair. The contact info generally will indicate this. If it's not a prof then the committee is likely not going to be forthcoming. When I applied at one school the contact was the secretary in the office and she mentioned in an e-mail that I should direct some particular question to the committee chair. When I enquired who that was she replied that she mispoke and that the committee information was not to be shared.
Who knows if that's the norm? That was just my experience. I also know at my university that search committees are as secretive as skull and bones! Maybe we're weird...
some of the MIT job talks can be seen at:
http://web.mit.edu/polisci/research/dss.html
Paul MacDonald (Columbia) has an interview at Harvard.
My sense (from having applied to a number of jobs) is that it's about a 50/50 split on whether committees divulge the identity of the search committee chair.
Most of the information I've gotten about various committees has been completely back channel, either through my adviser or (older) friends from graduate school. It's still very opaque, but these contacts can usually find out who is on the committee at their institution at pretty low cost.
Does anyone have information on where Michigan State (James Madison College) is in the process? They sent emails saying that they had begun the review of applications, but that was a week or so ago.
I would recommend strongly against compiling info on search commmittee membership in a public forum. Search committees members generally do not mind being known to the candidates invited to interview, but they don't want to be bombarded with messages from people they don't know, especially antsy job candidates. However, if you are invited for an interview, it is perfectly legitimate to ask who is on the committee and the role they have in the hiring process. Also, there is nothing wrong with your advisor sending messages to people who he/she knows are on the committee to plug you informally. And if your buddy from grad school is on the committee, then a direct query is fine.
Any info on Swarthmore?
I second the comment at 10:17, or whenever it was- Bad idea to compile info on committee members in public forum.
But a point was raised earlier about contact departments about where they are in the search process- reviewing, sending invites, etc. I've not seen any comment on that. Do people think it's ok to check up once in a while, particularly with the SLACs given the dearth of info?
Any info on USC?
No contact necessary.
There is no need to contact any committee or department if they have not contacted you.
While curiosity is intense, little good can come from being needy or intrusive. If you are on the their long short-list, then they will call you if they lose or reject their first candidates. And they will not, if they don't.
The job process is very stressful, but calling folks is not going to make it less so.
Good luck
I checked twice with one of the SLACs, and now I regret it. I've had fairly serious OCD for years, so it's tough for me not to check even more, but as a professional matter, I think most would agree that it's a bad idea. They will get to their decision when they get to it.
Jessica Stanton has a talk at noon on Nov 8 at UCLA. Source: advertising flyer
A few quick points:
1) We appreciate the rationale, but we would not allow the rumor mill to become a site for the collection of information about the composition of committees;
2) At least one of us has "been there, done that" about contacting schools multiple times. Don't. You'll be annoyed with yourself afterwards;
3) That being said, the point of the rumor mill is to spread information and therefore avoid some of the agony of the job market. We have a LOT of blanks that we assume at least *someone* among our readers could fill in information for--at the very least, at the level of 'no decision yet' or 'interviews underway.' Please share :-);
4) Can we migrate the non-rumor discussions to the appropriate thread from now one?
Best to all,
The Staff.
Umass has scheduled 4 interviews, but only 1 IR candidate in the bunch.
Was anybody other than Murray contacted by Williams yesterday?
Jessica Stanton's interviews are also scheduled at UCLA to coincide with her talk. Source: department e-mail
anyone hear any updates on Wisconsin or Minnesota?
The Penn interviews not listed on the big board are David Carter (Rochester), Jessica Stanton (Columbia), and Alex Weisiger (Columbia). Source: Penn grad student.
Minnesota has the list (4) but is waiting on approval from the interim Dean of Liberal Arts college (source- friend in the department). as of Friday, the grad students were not told of any upcoming interviews
The American/Comparative Rumor Mill says that Andrew Kennedy is the IR candidate interviewing at UMASS.
Do the Minnesota four know that they have been shortlisted?
University of Pittsburgh will interview Daniela Donno (Yale)
USC will interview Sarah Croco (Michigan). [source: candidate]
Croco also has an interview at Loyola Chicago.
USC = South Carolina or Southern California?
One exception to "don't contact search committees" rule.
If you have an offer in hand from another school, my sense is it is considered acceptable to contact other schools you've applied to (that you would prefer to school A) and ask where their process stands. I.e., so you don't give an immediate yes to Mudville Community College if Harvard is still in play. Particularly if the other schools' deadlines are well past.
I also figure it's reasonable to call a school when you've actually _interviewed_ there and contrary to their assurance that they'd announce their decision the following week, 6 weeks later they haven't communicated with you at all. Yes that happened.
Reminder: this thread is for rumors. Discussion related to the job market, self-presentation, bugging Department Chairs, etc., belong here.
Any other word on interviewees for Loyola Chicago? The announcement seems new, any info on when interview requests were made? (e.g. a week ago, this morning, etc.)
Any word on Brown? Northwestern? UT Austin? There are still a lot of blanks on the board at schools where you'd think there'd be information.
Claremont Graduate University
IPE interviewees:
Nicholas Weller (UCSD)
David Carter (Rochester)
Gyung-Ho Jeong (Washington U.)
Comparative Interviewees:
Cullen Hendrix (UCSD)
Jean Tomphie (UCLA)
Gregory Love (UC Davis)
Source: department website.
UCLA's candidates are Jessica Stanton, Jessica Weeks, and Leslie Johns. Source: department e-mail
To answer 9:17, I heard that Loyola Chicago started contacting candidates this past weekend.
Neither the Carleton job nor the JFK School of Government job in IR history appear on the big board. Anyone have any information on either of these?
Two of four Minnesota interviews scheduled, more to come later:
Zach Elkins (Berkeley PhD, Illinois prof.)
Jessica Stanton (Columbia)
Paul MacDonald, Alex Weisiger, Camber Warren and Sara Croco are all scheduled to give IR job talks at Harvard
Keith Darden, Prerna Singh, Tarek Masoud, Jessica Pisano are giving Comparative talks.
(Source: department email)
When are the Harvard talks happening?
Any information on Southern California's searches?
Re: date of Harvard talks
MacDonald: 14 Nov
Weisiger: 15 Nov
Warren: 26 Nov
Croco: 28 Nov
No Jessica Weeks as posted on the big board.
Anything coming out of CUNY-John Jay on their searches? One was due early in October so have they scheduled interviews yet?
Anyone know what is happening in the Canadian searches (Ottawa, Carleton, Alberta, Dal, Laval)?
Columbia has invited Jessica Weiss (UCSD) for their IR job.
Columbia will interview Sarah Croco (Michigan ABD).
Re: date of Harvard talks
Jessica Weeks hasn't scheduled her talk yet. It'll be sometime after the Thanksgiving break.
Re: 11:07 AM, November 07, 2007
:) are you sure?
perhaps the board posting was an attempt at a self-fulfilling prophecy ... harvard didn't oblige
Carleton College has made an offer and it has been accepted.
Source: Department rejection letter.
Anybody on the SDSU long short-list heard anything new?
Any word on Lewis & Clark Int. Affairs position? Have they scheduled any interviews yet?
I just noticed that APSAnet has an ad for two IR/Comp positions at Portland State University. Anyone here have an idea of what they are looking for? Anyone from one of the local PhD institutions got any ideas? The ad is real basic and rather vague! Someone retiring, dept. expanding, what?
Also, any word on Lewis & Clark's IA/Developing areas position? Last post was a week or so ago and just mentioned that the search was finishing its short list. Updates?
Any word on University of New Orleans?
Brent Durbin (Berkeley) has an interview at American U for the USFP job.
Many thanks to 11:07 for publishing the dates of the job talks at Harvard. I was wondering if we have any idea about what schools may have already completed all of their interviews? For example, schools like American and Catholic University seem to have published their lists long ago. Can we assume that they are now in the decision stage of the process?
Anonymous -
USC Public Diplomacy interview - John Robert Kelly, Mai'a Cross
USC IR Theory - Sarah Croco, Ayten Gundogdu, Jacques Hymans
Scott Wolford has accepted the offer from Colorado.
Cornell has finished its IR interviews.
American has not finished interviews.
I know someone who will interview there in the next 2 weeks. Don't know if they are the last one though.
According to the board, it's rumored that interviews are underway at UW-Madison. Can this be confirmed? Any info?
Re: SDSU, I was also informed that I was on their long short-list, but have not been contacted since.
Funny omission: George Washington has a ton of IR positions, but no chatter! Hmmmm.
Jon Monten -- confirmed interview at American (USFP).
Re: Canadian Universities
Laval had its last candidate in today (8 nov) and the committee will recommend the final candidate to the deparment during the faculty meeting on 14 nov.
Source: Search Committee Member
Does anyone have information on whether Hymans is interviewing at these places for tenured positions or not?
I have heard second hand (from a friend of a candidate whose name I can't divulge) that John Jay invited 4 candidates in early October and will be making a decision soon.
Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh has invited Robert Brown (UCSD) for an interview (source: Classmate)
Any word on the U of New Orleans? Has anybody heard from them?
Matt Fuhrmann has an interview at Colorado State. Source: Belfer colleague
Stanford has invited:
Jessica Weiss (UCSD)
Leslie Johns
Sarah Bremeo
source: colleague of applicant
There is a report on the comparative rumor mill that Johns has an offer from caltech.
I'm not sure how reliable that source is, but I thought people would find it of interest.
I've also heard that Cornell made an offer, but that is at least fourth hand.
Earlier question about IPE position at Puget Sound: This is NOT in the political science department, but rather in a separate interdisciplinary program with its own faculty. Just a heads-up.
Congrats Scott!!!
Purdue has invited Cullen Hendrix (UCSD) for an interview.
RE 2:59 and Puget Sound
So the dept is its own thing? What implications follow from that? Since the job was posted on APSAnet presumably they want a political scientist or will at least consider one over, say, a Lit major. I guess I'm confused about the heads up part.
The real question is this: Has the dept. started making interview requests?
any word on University of Mary Washington?
Does anyone know when Jessica Weeks is giving her talk at Harvard?
I heard from a friend that Swarthmore has made at least one invitation.
George Washington has scheduled talks for their IR/Europe position. I know one of the candidates.
any news on Lawrence U?
Paul MacDonald has interviews at Williams and Yale.
Source: Belfer colleague
The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and James Madison College (at Michigan State University) have scheduled interviews and they are listed on their websites.
According to the Wiki for Comparative Politics, the following schools have started interviews for their IR/CP searches: Grinnell College, Beloit College and Fairfield University.
Puget Sound said they wouldn't start making decisions until December.
Any news on the UAlberta IR/Europe job?
Where in the process is Georgia State with its interviews?
I saw the note about Swarthmore earlier. Any idea on when they started doing interview requests? Or still just rumor?
Also, any word on Colgate?
Oh, I also noticed someone mentioned the time of posting as a way to discern that someone might be abroad (I think it was relevant to the post). I'm not sure there is any relation to the time stamp and the real time. My postings show up with anything from a 4 to 6 hour time difference from when I post!
Does anyone know what the status of University of Michigan's open IR search? I know that when they posted the ad, they still hadn't secured the line. Are they still going to hire or have they canceled the search?
We have now forcibly relocated the posts on European PhD marketability to the "hunting the wild job" thread.
According to the Wiki, Rutgers-Camden has sent out invitations for interviews. Can anyone confirm that or note who they have tapped to interview?
The rumor mill says Georgetown made an offer to Weiss.
Any idea where Lewis and Clark's developing areas search is at presently?
L&C has invited at least some candidates for the developing areas search. Source: colleague.
Any news on SLACs like Richmond or Elon?
Richmond did phone interviews a while back, so if you haven't heard from them, chances are, you won't...
Any news on Agnes Scott or Lewis and Clark's EU/IR position?
Michigan search
I heard from a Michigan professor that Michigan-Ann Arbor did not get their line and are not reviewing files for their open IR search.
So if L&C Dev areas made its interview requests it's safe to say if you didn't get one then you're out, right? Bummer...
Any other SLAC news?
Any info on Irvine?
Does anyone know why Princeton posted another IR position ad with November 26 deadline? Did they not like the people they interviewed so far?
yeah, interesting about the new Princeton posting. Why post again... Even if they didn't like their first choice invitees, isn't it easier to just reach deeper into the files and pick a couple more names rather than pay for another ad...Don't they expect more or less the same people to apply again with the exception of those who've already gotten a few interviews and are relatively sure they'll get at least one offer they would accept...
Long time reader, first time poster...
Any word on Vermont?
There was a rumor the James Madison was going to be conducting phone interviews this week...can anybody verify that?
Richmond is scheduling interviews. Source: candidate.
I can confirm that Rutgers-Camden has invited at least one person for an interview.
Where is the new Princeton ad posted? I saw one on e-jobs but that was for all fields. . .
Jessica Weeks is giving her talk at Harvard today (11/16).
Has UT Austin scheduled interviews? LBJ school as well?
James Madison is conducting phone interviews now. - Source: Friend has one.
Anyone know who Wisconsin is interviewing?
From the Canada IR Blog
http://canadianpoliscijobs.blogspot.com/
"Anonymous said...Laval's faculty agreed on who will receive the offer at yesterday's faculty meeting. This person will be contacted next week.
November 16, 2007 7:57 AM"
Re Princeton's new ad, I saw it in the apsa e-jobs and I think that's the one other postings were referring too (b/c they mention the same deadline). I'm copying it below:
Listing ID: 12763
Date Posted: 10/23/2007 09:58:00
Institution: Princeton University
Type of Insitution: PhD
Title of Position: Open and Multiple Ranks
Starting Date: Fall 2008
Salary or Appointment Range: Competitive
Geographic Region of the Institution: Northeast MidAtlantic
Complete Position Description
The Department of Politics at Princeton University invites applications from junior and senior scholars for positions as tenure-track assistant professor, or tenured associate or full professor in any subfield or specialty of the discipline. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and cv online at www.princeton.edu/jobs. If you prefer to send hard copies, or any supplemental materials, please forward to Helen Milner, Chair, Open Search Committee, Department of Politics, 130 Corwin Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Princeton is an AA/EO employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. We will begin reviewing applications on November 26, 2007. For information about applying to Princeton and how to self identify, please link to http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/Applicantsinfo.htm.
RE: James Madison
If I am remembering correctly, they alread have a visiting assistant professor doing exactly what their job ad describes. Good luck to those of you who got a phone interview with them....
Does anyone have any information about Wright State University? Their deadline was a while ago.
Hm... could 12:25, just possibly, be the visiting person? :)
Matt Fuhrmann has an interview at South Carolina.
SLAC info: Hamline University in Minnesota is currently sending out interview requests.
Source: Dept. Memo from colleague
Re: Puget Sound
The heads-up is that this job won't be inside, or a joint appointment with, the political science department on campus--not unlike many international affairs or international studies programs across the country. The IPE program there has its own faculty, only some of which are political scientists.
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Anonymous said...
CUNY John Jay has made an offer in its IPE search.
This should be of interest to some of you on the market: I'm about to leave my position at an upstate NY institution at the end of this term (they have no idea yet), which will leave them lacking someone to teach both an Intro to IR course for next term (Jan-May 2008) and a Peace & Security course. Given this and the late timing, they might feel better about the situation (and me) if I gave them a CV or two of potential replacement candidates. You wouldn't be replacing a tenure-track person (I'm visiting only, which partially explains my departure) but a new t-t position is likely to emerge either for next year or year after. All this to say, if you're interested or need more info, contact me at politicalrisk007 (at) gmail.com -- obviously, I can't divulge my particulars but if you send your CV I could elaborate on some details of the potential job.
University of Denver has a list of five people they're going to interview.
Chenoweth is interviewing at the University of Richmond.
Has Leiden made an offer?
Re: Leiden Offer
Not yet, but they could have given that I am only one of the candidates...
Any news on Rice or GWU's open searches?
How about Georgetown's SFS?
RE Puget Sound. It sounds like an interesting position. Count me in.
But onto other matters. I posted a note on our neighbourly Canadian IR blog a few days back looking for info on the job search at Ottawa. Seems the canucks aren't answering the phone at the moment, though. So anyone here got any details?
Asif Efrat (Harvard) has a job talk next week at Texas A&M (Bush school).
Source: classmate
JMU was rumored to have phone interviews last week. Anyone have a status update?
To the person inquiring regarding Canadian IR positions, specifically at U of Ottawa: if you're talking about the 6 positions at the new intl affairs school, given that the deadline was just 1 week ago (Nov 12), I wouldn't expect to hear anything soon. As well, as someone quite familiar with how Ottawa U works bureaucratically, do not be surprised if this gets drawn out considerably.
I'm about to reveal myself for the innocent novice (idiot) that I am: wasn't the John Jay IPE job application *deadline* in December according to apsanet? If that's the case, how can it be that they already made an offer?? Is this typical?
Yes, it's possible. I know of at least one big-name school that made an offer in one subfield to a candidate before even interviewing the three other candidates.
RE: Georgetown SFS (11/19 @ 1:49pm)
They've made calls. At least two candidates that I know have given talks already.
RE U Ottawa
There are 6 positions? Christ! Where does that info come from? The apsa ad, if I remember right, said nothing about that. As for deadlines, well, I get distracted on these things.
Thanks for the info, though; quite useful.
Re: John Jay
Their IPE position was due in early October. Their CP position is due Dec 1st.
George Washington is bringing in three associates for one of their open Security positions.
A friend of mine is one of the three.
Any news on Binghamton or Rice?
Any news on New Orleans? Did they cancel the search? The deadline was Oct. 1st.
Any word on whether Victoria Univ. Wellington has extended offers for the Assistant or Full professor positions?
Binghampton is starting to make calls. Source: friend of one of the candidates.
Who's interviewing at Binghamton?
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Remember that even though we're job searching, we are very lucky people.
We get to work with interesting ideas, smart colleagues, and a good share of enthusiastic students, all in very nice surroundings. We have flexible hours, decent paychecks (or at least a chance at getting them), and the respect of our society. What more could we want, while so much of the world barely gets by day to day?
As John Woolman said (paraphrasing), just the trimmings of the vain world could clothe all the naked one. Our small, privileged academic bubble represents just a fraction of a fraction of the real world, and let's not forget how lucky we are to be in it.
Decent paychecks? Surely not conditional upon education.
The respect of our society? I'd surely like to move there. Where are you?
I'll second the Thanksgiving comment and add that it applies to those of us who aren't American either!
Speaking of which, did anyone else applying to the post-doc at Oxford/Nuffield just get a letter saying the application material was received? I was led to believe that by mid-November that some initial weeding out would be occurring (i.e. invites for further submission of chapters and what-have-you). Any thoughts/news on that?
Kudos to the Thanksgiving post.
Anyone who complains about this job please tell me what is better. I have worked dozens of different types of jobs from manual labor to corporate stuff. Being a Prof surely has to be one of the best jobs ever. Only people who go straight through from undergrad to the professoriate and know nothing of what work in the real world is like can think this job is anything less than a blessing.
Research where your interest lie, interact with the top third of all kids in the country, substantial time away from the office, the ability to go to cool places for research, felxibility that allows you to be there for family and friends. The stability of a regular paycheck but the freedom to design our own classes...
Yeah, there are frustrating parts but come on, what would you rather do? Why didn't you do it? More money...shoulda left with your MA. Respect? Tell it to cubicle land and the mushroom theory of management that pervades most offices.
Hooray for Academe! I certainly gave thanks this holiday for being able to be here.
blogmaster: sorry about that last Thanksgiving post...should have been on another thread.
did anyone else applying to the post-doc at Oxford/Nuffield just get a letter saying the application material was received? I was led to believe that by mid-November that some initial weeding out would be occurring (i.e. invites for further submission of chapters and what-have-you). Any thoughts/news on that?
I was informed Friday Nov 23 that I was on the "long list" and they requested more written work by Friday Nov 30.
Does anyone have any rumors on the Rice job? Have they abandoned the search?
RE Nuffield:
Was the long list notice by e-mail or snail mail? I literally just got the letter saying my application was under review! I think I received it Monday even though I had mailed everything about a month and a half earlier.
RE Nuffield:
Was the long list notice by e-mail or snail mail?
Email.
Swarthmore has interviewed 2 IPE candidates, the week before Thanksgiving break. I hear they have 2 more coming in the week of Nov 26, but it could be just 1 more.
Interesting...
Any word on who the 4 Swarthmore candidates are? Anyone have any of the names?
Update on Lycoming?
Does anyone know anything about University of Iowa and UT-Austin?
I don't remember any rumors about their searches.
Wiki says Lycoming has scheduled at least one campus interview.
Harvard KSG history of IR search has scheduled talks. Source: friend of a candidate.
Any word on who the 4 Swarthmore candidates are? Anyone have any of the names?
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Swarthmore has interviewed James Morrison (Stanford) and Ayse Kaya (LSE). Don't know who the other candidates are, or when they're interviewing.
RE: Rice Search
Rice is interviewing advanced assistants/new associates--no ABDs this time around.
Source: third-hand (at least).
Texas Tech is interviewing Kelly Wurtz (ABD, UCSD).
Source: classmate.
Univ. of South Carolina is interviewing Erica Chenoweth for their security position.
Re: George Washington ...
Announced job talks this week (via dept e-mail):
Andrew Mertha (IR-Asia)
Harris Mylonas (IR-Europe)
Nita Rudra (IR-Asia)
Does anyone know the status of the Brown search?
Dear administrators,
Will you be kind enough to update the big board? I am sure much has happened in the last 10 days...
Thanks.
RE: Harvard KSG history of IR search- A previous comment says that talks have already been scheduled. Since I did not get any communication from KSG, should I assume I did not make it? Thanks..
Any word on the SDSU search?
I know they were working with a short list
any word on NC State? I heard they found someone ...
re: 10.29am That's safe to assume, yes. For all of these jobs, the rejections can often arrive only months after the talks have been held and the position filled. Treating candidates fairly is not a priority for many departments.
Any idea who is interviewing for the Harvard KSG search?
Any info on the Open rank Human Rights position at North Texas?
I'm assuming that JMU has made decisions on on-campus interviews. Can someone confirm this?
RE: UNT - Interviews have not been setup yet.
What are the odds someone has some info on the position at Colgate? Vermont?
The UNT search committee has met and will be inviting candidates for talks soon.
So has Rice started making calls, or have they just decided that they're looking for senior Assistants?
Sarah Stroup (Berkeley) has an interview at Colgate.
source: friend of candidate.
NC St is scheduling final interviews
James Madison conducted phone interviews prior to Thanksgiving but hasn't invited folks on-campus yet. They wanted to move quickly and send invites last week but, for some reason, haven't.
Who got the Wisconsin interviews?
My understanding is that Wisconsin is interviewing Weisiger, Hymans, and Stanton.
Has Wesleyan extended offers?
James Madison College at Michigan State held on-campus interviews. I don't know about James Madison University (in Virginia). Some posts are vague on which institution they are talking about.
Kate Floros (Pitt ABD) has accepted a job at Missouri.
Source: Kate's friend
How are Chicago's searches going? Does anyone know if they are finished interviewing?
Quan Li (Penn State) just interviewed at Texas A&M University.
I know from a reliable source that Ottawa U should have the shortlist for their 6 positions at the new graduate school of public and international affairs next week.
I guess this means interviews will be in late december or january.
Mike Tomz is also interviewing at Chicago PS Dept.
So, does the post referring to James Madison relate to James Madison University (Virginia)? They had phone interviews before Thanksgiving...
Cullen Hendrix is interviewing at Binghamton.
Source: classmate.
Anonymous wrote [edited]:
"Job search at Duke did not lead to any hires."
Does anyone know how long departments typically give candidates after they extended an offer to make a final decision? I ask this because I've been told by a chair that I am second in line for a job and its been (just slightly) more than two weeks since the original offer. The other person is an ABD just like me.
In response to some recent queries:
yes, we do edit messages that contain a great deal of inside baseball. We understand how annoying this is; we do appreciate it that some of our contributors are willing to share a great deal of information. But we want to avoid the IR Rumor Mill going the way of some of its peers.
That means we will edit information posted in good faith, if only to avoid ensuring discussions.
Unless such information is clearly important to those on the job market, for example, we almost always edit or block comments that discuss-- particularly with specific names--internal rifts, differences, etc. on committees.
For some background on this policy, see:
http://irrumormill.blogspot.com/2006/10/unconfirmed-rumors-ir-jobs-new.html
http://irrumormill.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-regime.html
So, the upshot is that recent contributors have noted that Duke failed to make an offer. If the rumor is true, then they did not make an offer. This is not atypical for senior-level positions.
In response to the question about offer length, some schools, including at least one very prominent one, give as little as two weeks and are very strict about it. Others give several weeks or months or however long it takes. It depends on the other options a school has, past precedent, and other factors.
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