The Chronicle of Higher Education (www.chronicle.com) has a great feature called the CV doctor, or something like that, so I would do an online search for those columns. They provide advice on real CVs from various fields, including the social sciences.
Also, it could be helpful to look at the CVs of people who are doing well at various stages (new Assistant, new Associate) of their careers in IR (please, no discussion on this forum about names).
The Department of Political Science at Tulane University invites applications for a one-year, non-tenure-track, Visiting Assistant Professorship in International Relations and/or Comparative Politics, focus on Asia preferred. Ph.D. in hand desired, but advanced ABDs will be considered. The teaching load is three courses per semester. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a writing sample or publication, available evidence of teaching excellence (such as syllabi and teaching evaluations), a graduate transcript and three letters of recommendation to: Comparative Politics Search, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118. Please direct email inquiries to the Associate Chair, Professor Martyn Thompson, at his personal email address: martynpt@aol.com. Consideration of applications will commence immediately and the position will remain open until filled. Tulane University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. All eligible candidates are invited to apply for position vacancies as appropriate.
What's the situation with Tulane, post-Katrina? I remember reading that there were several cases of tenured faculty being terminated without due process due to budgetary issues.
Any reason to think that they might still have financial problems?
Administrators, I see the tally of comments continues to grow, but none of those new comments are actually showing up on the wiki. Is there a way to fix this?
i would like to start a petition to remove the anonymity from any posts to this website. i believe people have been using it to prevent their competitors from finding jobs and/or stopping opportunities for others they are trying to oust from the market. i know of many who have been hurt by groups who make it a habit to post whatever they hear about their competition. this is against the spirit of the site and would like to ask others also condemn this behavior. if you are resorting to such tactics you must not be trusting your own abilities on the market period.
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4.12 12:07, Tulane is not having any financial problems anymore. Tenured faculty were let go post-Katrina (a couple of engineering departments were done away with), but none in political science.
News of the demise of the job market is premature. There are several jobs still interviewing and several offers still undecided. The fat lady is humming, but she's still backstage.
Ohio University is looking to fill a one year position in IR, field open, commencing September 2008, renewable up to three years. If you missed the tenure track cycle and are interested in applying, here are the particulars:
International Relations-Area of Specialization Open
The Department of Political Science at Ohio University invites applications for a term appointment in international relations, commencing September 2008. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in hand by Sept. 1, 2008 and be prepared to offer a range of undergraduate and graduate level courses in the area of international relations, emphasis open. Strong regional focus, especially in Middle East, Latin America, Southeast Asia, or China, would be a plus, but is not essential. Those applying should show a strong commitment to excellence in both research and teaching. Ohio University enrolls approximately 19,500 students on the Athens campus. Further information about Ohio University can be found at the university’s web site (http:// www.ohio.edu). The Department of Political Science (www.ohiou.edu/pols) has 25 faculty members, 500 majors, and 90 graduate students. We seek a candidate with a commitment in working effectively with students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. To apply, please submit an application to: www.ohiouniversityjobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=51931 Review of applications will begin December 1, 2006. A cover letter, vita, graduate transcripts, three letters of recommendation, a sample of scholarly writing, and evidence of teaching effectiveness must be mailed to the International Relations Search Committee, Department of Political Science, Bentley Annex, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.
Public, very nice town, good school, very good honors college so they attract some of the better students from Ohio, also a lot of international students. The only downside is that it is far from a major city (if that is an issue). Columbus is about an hour and a half, depending on how fast you drive.
Doubtful that Oxford-IR will go for someone who does quant/formal work.
[Comment has been edited by moderators -- our own two cents: be careful about distinguishing between different colleges at Oxbridge. Nuffield skews differently; take a look at the visitors for 2008]
Even more important - be sure to distinguish between IR openings and Politics openings at Oxford. Though housed under the same department, a huge chasm divides both.
What I find ironic is that for some of the more prestigous post-docs, Oxford does hire US PhD's who are cutting edge - but only for post-docs. Permanent hires seem to be a wholly different story there.
Update for the big board, Victoria Uni Wellington had the major interviews just this week (contrary to pre-ISA rumours on the rumour mill). I think they offered full prof to someone yesterday, no idea who (I was on the shortlist and had my interview Monday). The lecturer/senior lecturer interviews were held today. The outcome of those depends on who they appoint to full prof (as there is a husband-wife couple in the mix).
I was wondering if people have advice about going on the job market in Europe. First, which markets best resemble the US system--in that they support both research and teaching or emphasize research. And they produce research that is publishable in US journals?
Second, how does the job application process compare to the US process. When/where do job announcements go on-line? When are applications due? When are interviews granted? Do they require Ph.D. in hand or ABD status when you apply?
Third, what are some of the best post-docs in Europe--I know about Oxford but are there others?
UK (and only some UK at that) most resembles the US.
Expect to find a degree of inbredness and corruption that makes the US job market look like a perfectly competitive, and meritocratic, market.
Salaries will on average be lower, especially in real terms and adjusting for cost of living. Not bad if you like Europe (and a European lifestyle) though, both in the office and in the household.
A good way to get noticed when applying for jobs is having an award under your belt. For graduate students who presented at ISA get someone to nominate your paper!
The Carl Beck Award committee is accepting nominations for this year's award. This award recognizes an outstanding paper presented by a graduate student at the ISA meetings in 2008. Normally papers need to be submitted by May 31, but due to a low submission rate so far this year, the deadline has been extended by one week. Please submit a nominating note along with an electronic version of the paper to to poscha@lsu.edu by June 7, 2008.
ISA—Human Rights Section has the Steven C. Poe Graduate Student Paper Award. The committee accepts self-nominations. The award will be accompanied by $100as well as a paid one-year membership in the Human Rights Section. In addition, the winner will receive $300 to subsidize travel to the following year’s ISA meeting. However, the deadline has past--May 15 (remember this for next year).
Regarding interviews at Victoria-Wellington: Unless I am very much mistaken, there were interviews for the professorship opening prior to ISA. The person who got offer turned it down.
2.57pm is off base. British academic salaries are *on average,* higher that US salaries. The main differences are at the elite end of the university spectrum, and even there the gap is closing. (The average starting salary at a British university is now c.£36,000). It is true that the cost of living is high, but there is considerable regional variation. As for being inbred, that depends on how you measure it. There is no norm against hiring from your own PhD program. And some places are pretty bad - LSE, for example. However, there is an increasing effort, across the sector, to hire from the US (though not really, Nufield post-docs aside, in quant/formal work). Have a look at the junior faculty at Cambridge, for example (in both the Dept. of Politics and the Centre of International Studies). In general, constructivists from good US programs are well placed for entering the UK market, formal modellers much less so.
On the question of US versus UK markets/living – while the cost of living in the UK is high, and in some areas (notably London and the south of England) very high indeed, there are many other areas which are still cheaper than (or roughly equal with) expensive parts of the US. Working and living in Sheffield or Leeds, or Cardiff or Swansea, is certainly not more expensive than doing so in NYC or the Boston area. Broad brush comparisons are therefore not very illuminating.
The following is quite instructive, even though primarily discussing philosophy as opposed to IR. Note also that the UK salary figures quoted (from 2006) are now slightly out of date - the salaries are quite a lot higher now, and the new pay settlement is still working its way through the system:
London is more expensive than NYC, SF and Boston. No surprise there. But people (Americans in Oxbridge) report that Oxford and Cambridge are also more expensive than NYC, SF and Boston (I would have never thought so, but that's what they report).
I thus wonder how the places listed (Cardiff, Leeds, etc) compare to "similar" places in the US (whatever similar may mean on this context).
If academic salaries are higher in the UK than in the US one would expect the migration flows among academics to reflect this. My impression is this is not the case. American universities seem to attract more Brits than British universities attract Americans. Or am I wrong?
This salary discussion is very "americano-centric" in that my question was about resources and everyone assumed salary. I have lived in europe (continental and UK) before and know about price of living etc. as far as I am concerned the quality of life (i.e. not worrying about health care or shelling out money every 2 minutes for health related expenses when one has healthcare, unemployment benefits, maternity leave etc.) is better in Europe and our elevated salaries in the US match our grossly inflated cost of services. There's lots of things (such as private education, daycare, or even housecleaning!) that are much more expensive here and overly inflated. So to me salary is not a huge concern.
What I did mean by "resources" is the resources provided by the university to academics: such as research assistance, access to databases, travel funding, research funding, funded sabbaticals etc. What I am wondering is if I could have the same resources to do research in Europe as I would in a liberal arts school here (not necessarily research 1 or top 20) university in the US. Or would I be shooting myself in the foot by going to Europe.
If such universities exist in Europe then where are they? UK, Belgium, Switzerland, France etc?
What would the professional disadvantages or frustrations be for a US-trained scholar (qualitative work) who likes US political science and positivism?
"American universities seem to attract more Brits than British universities attract Americans. Or am I wrong?"
********* Not quite true. Look at the faculty page for a place like U Essex. Lots of Americans and people with US degrees. Same goes for many other departments. In fact, the UK draws many talented people from the US, EU countries, the Commonwealth, and elsewhere. The same is not true in the US where 99% of faculty (no hard stats there) have US PhDs.
Say that American universities will rarely want to hire a British trained PhD. Then you won't see too many British PhD's in the US.
Say that (some, i.e. Essex) British universities will want to hire an American trained PhD. Then you will see quite a lot of American PhD's in that British Department.
The question is this. When a candidate has both an offer from an American school and a British school... where does the candidate CHOOSES to go? The US or the UK?
Most of the Americans at Essex moved there either because of spousal issues, or because they were not all that hot in the US job market.
And, for the record, I commend Essex on their recent hires. They are clearly the best Department in the UK (in my opinion).
The question about whether somebody, if they had a choice between the two options, would choose a US or UK university (assuming some form of parity between the universities), is not especially helpful. Aside from lifestyle choices, which are themselves vitally important, much will depend on what the person works on and whether they want to work among like-minded scholars (or at least in an environment open to a wide variety of different types of scholarly work). Many British scholars I know would choose a UK university over a similar level US one because it would be far more intellectually hospitable (as is the national research culture) for the kind of work they do. And many US scholars, especially those doing quantative work in a positivist vein, would find few fully hospitable environments in the UK (there are one or two exceptions, Essex being one).
The fact that US trained scholars in the UK have often struggled on the US job market is not necessarily a comment on their abilities – it is often (though certainly not always) a pretty good indicator of the kind of work they do. Hence why a fair number of radical constructivists/post-structuralists/Marxists/feminists, and so forth, end up working in the UK. The environment for that kind of work is simply much better.
10:24 I am guessing you are a rationalist? Because clearly there is no room for personal preferences in your "theory" about why people go abroad. The assumption that those that go abroad did not do well in the US market is a stretch at best. Jeff Checkel, Thomas Risse etc are *great* scholars who went to Europe. You can't make that assumption without knowing what is important to people. To some people work is not as important as other things and to some people the US isn't such a great place to live and US IR is overrated...
How about a summer 2008 thread. Rumors that the job market isn't dead to contrary notwithstanding, the job market -- micro-level changes acknowledged -- is dead.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 265 of 265The Chronicle of Higher Education (www.chronicle.com) has a great feature called the CV doctor, or something like that, so I would do an online search for those columns. They provide advice on real CVs from various fields, including the social sciences.
Also, it could be helpful to look at the CVs of people who are doing well at various stages (new Assistant, new Associate) of their careers in IR (please, no discussion on this forum about names).
Ottawa made all of its offers (6/6).
The Department of Political Science at Tulane University invites applications for a one-year, non-tenure-track, Visiting Assistant Professorship in International Relations and/or Comparative Politics, focus on Asia preferred. Ph.D. in hand desired, but advanced ABDs will be considered. The teaching load is three courses per semester. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a writing sample or publication, available evidence of teaching excellence (such as syllabi and teaching evaluations), a graduate transcript and three letters of recommendation to: Comparative Politics Search, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118. Please direct email inquiries to the Associate Chair, Professor Martyn Thompson, at his personal email address: martynpt@aol.com. Consideration of applications will commence immediately and the position will remain open until filled. Tulane University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. All eligible candidates are invited to apply for position vacancies as appropriate.
Bowdoin and Smith are interviewing for the visiting positions.
What's the situation with Tulane, post-Katrina? I remember reading that there were several cases of tenured faculty being terminated without due process due to budgetary issues.
Any reason to think that they might still have financial problems?
Huge Fall-08 scores for Syracuse!!! Stay tuned...it's official....
Doug Davis from the University of Arizona has been offered the tenure track assistant position at Troy University.
Information: departmental email.
A little late in the season, but: Chelsea Brown (UNT PhD) has a job talk at the UT-Austin LBJ School on April 21.
Administrators, I see the tally of comments continues to grow, but none of those new comments are actually showing up on the wiki. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks for the help.
i would like to start a petition to remove the anonymity from any posts to this website. i believe people have been using it to prevent their competitors from finding jobs and/or stopping opportunities for others they are trying to oust from the market. i know of many who have been hurt by groups who make it a habit to post whatever they hear about their competition. this is against the spirit of the site and would like to ask others also condemn this behavior. if you are resorting to such tactics you must not be trusting your own abilities on the market period.
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The big board, if that's what you mean, doesn't get updated on a daily basis. But we do "sweep" comments fairly regularly.
Univ. of Southern California has made offers to Mai'a Cross (Public Diplomacy) and Jacques Hymans (IR). Both have accepted.
Source: candidate
Is there any information on the new Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University San Diego?
4.12 12:07, Tulane is not having any financial problems anymore. Tenured faculty were let go post-Katrina (a couple of engineering departments were done away with), but none in political science.
Marquette? Anyone?
I think Marquette bowed out in the Sweet 16.
Marquette has scheduled interviews.
Source: heard it from a friend of an interviewee.
Re: examples of good CVs -- I'd look up the web sites of people who did well on the job market.
Any news on Univ.of West Georgia? Thanks.
West Georgia extended an offer to Greg Dixon of the University of Arizona (source: UofA department email)
Just checking
Any news on the University of British Columbia teaching fellowship?
I hereby anonymous propose that the thread be pronounced dead. Jobs are now being posted for the fall 2009 market.
It's over, folks. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. :)
There are still some senior moves in the works.
News of the demise of the job market is premature. There are several jobs still interviewing and several offers still undecided. The fat lady is humming, but she's still backstage.
So, is Tomz staying at Stanford? Or off to Yale?
Did CIDE in Mexico hire in IR?
Did MN fill their position?
Minnesota made an offer at the level of Associate Professor but did not fill the position. Source: rejection letter.
Ohio University is looking to fill a one year position in IR, field open, commencing September 2008, renewable up to three years. If you missed the tenure track cycle and are interested in applying, here are the particulars:
International Relations-Area of Specialization Open
The Department of Political Science at Ohio University invites applications for a term appointment in international relations, commencing September 2008. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in hand by Sept. 1, 2008 and be prepared to offer a range of undergraduate and graduate level courses in the area of international relations, emphasis open. Strong regional focus, especially in Middle East, Latin America, Southeast Asia, or China, would be a plus, but is not essential. Those applying should show a strong commitment to excellence in both research and teaching. Ohio University enrolls approximately 19,500 students on the Athens campus. Further information about Ohio University can be found at the university’s web site (http:// www.ohio.edu). The Department of Political Science (www.ohiou.edu/pols) has 25 faculty members, 500 majors, and 90 graduate students. We seek a candidate with a commitment in working effectively with students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. To apply, please submit an application to: www.ohiouniversityjobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=51931 Review of applications will begin December 1, 2006. A cover letter, vita, graduate transcripts, three letters of recommendation, a sample of scholarly writing, and evidence of teaching effectiveness must be mailed to the International Relations Search Committee, Department of Political Science, Bentley Annex, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.
Is Ohio University public, or is it like Penn?
Public, very nice town, good school, very good honors college so they attract some of the better students from Ohio, also a lot of international students. The only downside is that it is far from a major city (if that is an issue). Columbus is about an hour and a half, depending on how fast you drive.
Ohio University is public.
Any information on Oxford/Nuffield IR search? Are they genuinely open to American-trained scholars who do quantitative/formal work?
Doubtful that Oxford-IR will go for someone who does quant/formal work.
[Comment has been edited by moderators -- our own two cents: be careful about distinguishing between different colleges at Oxbridge. Nuffield skews differently; take a look at the visitors for 2008]
Even more important - be sure to distinguish between IR openings and Politics openings at Oxford. Though housed under the same department, a huge chasm divides both.
What I find ironic is that for some of the more prestigous post-docs, Oxford does hire US PhD's who are cutting edge - but only for post-docs. Permanent hires seem to be a wholly different story there.
Where is ISQ going now that its leaving North Texas?
ISQ will be moving to Indiana University, Bloomington.
Update for the big board, Victoria Uni Wellington had the major interviews just this week (contrary to pre-ISA rumours on the rumour mill). I think they offered full prof to someone yesterday, no idea who (I was on the shortlist and had my interview Monday). The lecturer/senior lecturer interviews were held today. The outcome of those depends on who they appoint to full prof (as there is a husband-wife couple in the mix).
I was wondering if people have advice about going on the job market in Europe. First, which markets best resemble the US system--in that they support both research and teaching or emphasize research. And they produce research that is publishable in US journals?
Second, how does the job application process compare to the US process. When/where do job announcements go on-line? When are applications due? When are interviews granted? Do they require Ph.D. in hand or ABD status when you apply?
Third, what are some of the best post-docs in Europe--I know about Oxford but are there others?
Thanks
UK (and only some UK at that) most resembles the US.
Expect to find a degree of inbredness and corruption that makes the US job market look like a perfectly competitive, and meritocratic, market.
Salaries will on average be lower, especially in real terms and adjusting for cost of living. Not bad if you like Europe (and a European lifestyle) though, both in the office and in the household.
A good way to get noticed when applying for jobs is having an award under your belt. For graduate students who presented at ISA get someone to nominate your paper!
The Carl Beck Award committee is accepting nominations for this year's award. This award recognizes an outstanding paper presented by a graduate student at the ISA meetings in 2008.
Normally papers need to be submitted by May 31, but due to a low submission rate so far this year, the deadline has been extended by one week. Please submit a nominating note along with an electronic version of the paper to to poscha@lsu.edu by June 7, 2008.
ISA—Human Rights Section has the Steven C. Poe Graduate Student Paper Award.
The committee accepts self-nominations. The award will be accompanied by $100as well as a paid one-year membership in the Human Rights Section. In addition, the winner will receive $300 to subsidize travel to the following year’s ISA meeting. However, the deadline has past--May 15 (remember this for next year).
Regarding interviews at Victoria-Wellington: Unless I am very much mistaken, there were interviews for the professorship opening prior to ISA. The person who got offer turned it down.
2.57pm is off base. British academic salaries are *on average,* higher that US salaries. The main differences are at the elite end of the university spectrum, and even there the gap is closing. (The average starting salary at a British university is now c.£36,000). It is true that the cost of living is high, but there is considerable regional variation. As for being inbred, that depends on how you measure it. There is no norm against hiring from your own PhD program. And some places are pretty bad - LSE, for example. However, there is an increasing effort, across the sector, to hire from the US (though not really, Nufield post-docs aside, in quant/formal work). Have a look at the junior faculty at Cambridge, for example (in both the Dept. of Politics and the Centre of International Studies). In general, constructivists from good US programs are well placed for entering the UK market, formal modellers much less so.
I must say I find my opinion to be closer to 2.57pm rather than 10.35am.
In my experience, most Americans grossly under-estimate just how expensive living in the UK is (relative to the US).
British (but US PhD) here.
On the question of US versus UK markets/living – while the cost of living in the UK is high, and in some areas (notably London and the south of England) very high indeed, there are many other areas which are still cheaper than (or roughly equal with) expensive parts of the US. Working and living in Sheffield or Leeds, or Cardiff or Swansea, is certainly not more expensive than doing so in NYC or the Boston area. Broad brush comparisons are therefore not very illuminating.
The following is quite instructive, even though primarily discussing philosophy as opposed to IR. Note also that the UK salary figures quoted (from 2006) are now slightly out of date - the salaries are quite a lot higher now, and the new pay settlement is still working its way through the system:
http://the-brooks-blog.blogspot.com/2006/10/academic-job-pay-in-united-states-and.html
London is more expensive than NYC, SF and Boston. No surprise there. But people (Americans in Oxbridge) report that Oxford and Cambridge are also more expensive than NYC, SF and Boston (I would have never thought so, but that's what they report).
I thus wonder how the places listed (Cardiff, Leeds, etc) compare to "similar" places in the US (whatever similar may mean on this context).
If academic salaries are higher in the UK than in the US one would expect the migration flows among academics to reflect this. My impression is this is not the case. American universities seem to attract more Brits than British universities attract Americans. Or am I wrong?
Comparing Sheffield/Leeds/Cardiff/Swansea to NYC or Boston seems odd, to say the least.
Hi all,
This salary discussion is very "americano-centric" in that my question was about resources and everyone assumed salary. I have lived in europe (continental and UK) before and know about price of living etc. as far as I am concerned the quality of life (i.e. not worrying about health care or shelling out money every 2 minutes for health related expenses when one has healthcare, unemployment benefits, maternity leave etc.) is better in Europe and our elevated salaries in the US match our grossly inflated cost of services. There's lots of things (such as private education, daycare, or even housecleaning!) that are much more expensive here and overly inflated. So to me salary is not a huge concern.
What I did mean by "resources" is the resources provided by the university to academics: such as research assistance, access to databases, travel funding, research funding, funded sabbaticals etc. What I am wondering is if I could have the same resources to do research in Europe as I would in a liberal arts school here (not necessarily research 1 or top 20) university in the US. Or would I be shooting myself in the foot by going to Europe.
If such universities exist in Europe then where are they? UK, Belgium, Switzerland, France etc?
What would the professional disadvantages or frustrations be for a US-trained scholar (qualitative work) who likes US political science and positivism?
Thanks for the insights!
"American universities seem to attract more Brits than British universities attract Americans. Or am I wrong?"
*********
Not quite true. Look at the faculty page for a place like U Essex. Lots of Americans and people with US degrees. Same goes for many other departments. In fact, the UK draws many talented people from the US, EU countries, the Commonwealth, and elsewhere. The same is not true in the US where 99% of faculty (no hard stats there) have US PhDs.
Haha. That's faulty logic at its best.
Say that American universities will rarely want to hire a British trained PhD. Then you won't see too many British PhD's in the US.
Say that (some, i.e. Essex) British universities will want to hire an American trained PhD. Then you will see quite a lot of American PhD's in that British Department.
The question is this. When a candidate has both an offer from an American school and a British school... where does the candidate CHOOSES to go? The US or the UK?
Most of the Americans at Essex moved there either because of spousal issues, or because they were not all that hot in the US job market.
And, for the record, I commend Essex on their recent hires. They are clearly the best Department in the UK (in my opinion).
The question about whether somebody, if they had a choice between the two options, would choose a US or UK university (assuming some form of parity between the universities), is not especially helpful. Aside from lifestyle choices, which are themselves vitally important, much will depend on what the person works on and whether they want to work among like-minded scholars (or at least in an environment open to a wide variety of different types of scholarly work). Many British scholars I know would choose a UK university over a similar level US one because it would be far more intellectually hospitable (as is the national research culture) for the kind of work they do. And many US scholars, especially those doing quantative work in a positivist vein, would find few fully hospitable environments in the UK (there are one or two exceptions, Essex being one).
The fact that US trained scholars in the UK have often struggled on the US job market is not necessarily a comment on their abilities – it is often (though certainly not always) a pretty good indicator of the kind of work they do. Hence why a fair number of radical constructivists/post-structuralists/Marxists/feminists, and so forth, end up working in the UK. The environment for that kind of work is simply much better.
10:24 I am guessing you are a rationalist? Because clearly there is no room for personal preferences in your "theory" about why people go abroad. The assumption that those that go abroad did not do well in the US market is a stretch at best. Jeff Checkel, Thomas Risse etc are *great* scholars who went to Europe. You can't make that assumption without knowing what is important to people. To some people work is not as important as other things and to some people the US isn't such a great place to live and US IR is overrated...
This is the first time I have heard that a rationalist framework does not allow any room for personal preferences!!
Amazing indeed.
Also, I believe the putative "rationalist" claims were meant to convey what, on average, and ceteris paribus, would obtain.
Matt Baum is leaving UCLA. Is he off to UCSD?
I thought he was off to KSG/Harvard.
Is Paul Hensel off to U North Texas? He is leaving FSU?
Yup, Hensel is going to Denton.
A quick note: job-rumor threads are not a place to boost and/or disparage institutions.
The Center for Global Affairs at NYU has extended an offer to a UK-based scholar. (Not sure who)
Source: colleague at NYU
How about a summer 2008 thread. Rumors that the job market isn't dead to contrary notwithstanding, the job market -- micro-level changes acknowledged -- is dead.
1) Yes, this is way too long. New thread soon;
2) Believe it or not, we have some updates to the tally board coming down the pike....
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