How many political theory hires in 2005?
Update: see comment. I will update the numbers in the previous post in mid-January [was: in a few days].
I received the following comment:
"7 in theory/ 5 in theory in top 30"
This can't be right. Off the top of my head:
Harvard hired two junior theorists.
Columbia, 2
Yale, 1
Minnesota, 1
OSU, 1.
UC-Riverside, 1
Virginia Tech, 1
That's 7 top 30/ 9 PhD-granting, and I'm sure there are other PhD-granting that I'm forgetting.
First, thanks for the comment. Since I was wondering anyway whether the numbers can really be that low, I re-checked. And added one (Minnesota - Nancy Luxon, starting in 2007; the name did not figure on the website yet since she starts a year later).
The full list that I came up with includes:
Anna Stiltz (Columbia); Eric Beerbohm (Harvard); Nancy Luxon (Minnesota); Eric MacGilvray and S.M. Amadae (Ohio State); Farah Godrey (UC Riverside); Daniel Brunstetter (UC Irvine); Paulina Ochoa (Yale).
From the comment's list - Columbia had one junior hire on associate level (I know that this can be misleading, but I have consistently not included them in any of my data). Virginia Tech does not grant PhDs in political science. I don't know who the second Harvard person is and the Harvard website does not help me. Still, I only have 8/6.
Who else am I missing?
I received the following comment:
"7 in theory/ 5 in theory in top 30"
This can't be right. Off the top of my head:
Harvard hired two junior theorists.
Columbia, 2
Yale, 1
Minnesota, 1
OSU, 1.
UC-Riverside, 1
Virginia Tech, 1
That's 7 top 30/ 9 PhD-granting, and I'm sure there are other PhD-granting that I'm forgetting.
First, thanks for the comment. Since I was wondering anyway whether the numbers can really be that low, I re-checked. And added one (Minnesota - Nancy Luxon, starting in 2007; the name did not figure on the website yet since she starts a year later).
The full list that I came up with includes:
Anna Stiltz (Columbia); Eric Beerbohm (Harvard); Nancy Luxon (Minnesota); Eric MacGilvray and S.M. Amadae (Ohio State); Farah Godrey (UC Riverside); Daniel Brunstetter (UC Irvine); Paulina Ochoa (Yale).
From the comment's list - Columbia had one junior hire on associate level (I know that this can be misleading, but I have consistently not included them in any of my data). Virginia Tech does not grant PhDs in political science. I don't know who the second Harvard person is and the Harvard website does not help me. Still, I only have 8/6.
Who else am I missing?
posted by Assisting Politics at 11/03/2006 04:42:00 PM
2 Comments:
This might help: the 05-06 placement letter from the Foundations of Political Theory APSA group. This would usually be published on www.political-theory.org, but for some reason last year's newsletter is not (or no longer?) there. What I've pasted below was copied and saved from the political theory rumor mill blog a few months ago (posted there 7/22), but those posts are also no longer online. Accuracy probably needs to be verified.
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"Wrapping up 05-06, news from the Foundations placement newsletter
University of Alabama-Birmingham
UAB hired Dr. Robert Robinson (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison) for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Constitutional Law. He will begin teaching in there in the Fall.
University of Arkansas-Little Rock
The position was comparative politics with a secondary wish for normative theory; a comparativist from UC-Irvine, Andrew Drummond, was hired.
Arkansas State University
Arkansas State hired Fiona Miller. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2004. She has been visiting at Colgate and was hired in a tenure-track, assistant professor position.
Boston College
Boston College hired Erik Owens, a student of Jean Elhstain's at the Chicago Divinity School, as assistant director of the Boisi Center and adjunct assistant professor of theology.
Brown University
Sharon Krause, Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, has been appointed Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown effective July 1, 2006. Professor Krause is author, among others, of Liberalism with Honor (Harvard University Press, 2002). She holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard (1998).
University of California-Riverside
UCR hired Farah Godrej, a Georgetown PhD who worked under the supervision of Mark Warren. She is a comparative political theorist with broad interests.
Columbia University
Columbia hired Melissa Schwartzberg as a nontenured associate professor and Anna Stilz as an assistant professor. In addition, Thomas Pogge has moved over from the Columbia Philosophy Department to the Political Science Department, retaining his rank as a full professor.
De Pauw University
The Department of Political Science reports hat Lars Tønder, currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, has accepted a tenure-track appointment beginning in fall semester, 2006. Professor Tønder, a native of Denmark, holds masters degrees from the University of Essex (1999) and the University of Copenhagen (2000) and earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2005. He is the co-editor of Radical Democracy: Politics between Abundance and Lack (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2005) and the author of several pieces on the phenomenon of “tolerance.”
Franklin and Marshall College
Franklin and Marshall hired Catherine Gordy, as a visiting assistant professor. Her PhD is from Cornell University
George Mason University
George Mason hired Tiffany Howard. She received her PhD in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, in 2006. Her dissertation is State Pressures and the Forced Migrant: Evaluating Global State Failure in an Effort to Ameliorate the Consequences of Forced Migration in the Developing World.
Georgetown University
Georgetown reports that they are in the process of finalizing an offer.
Harvard University
The Government Department hired two assistant professors, Michael Frazier and Eric Beerbohm. Both are new PhD's from Princeton.
Kenyon College
David Leibowitz was hired as an assistant professor. His PhD is from Harvard; his dissertation (1997) is entitled Moral and Political Problems in Socratic Political Philosophy: A Reading of Plato's Apology.
McGill University
Jacob Levy, formerly of the University of Chicago, was hired for the Tomlinson Chair in Political Theory at the rank of tenured Associate Professor.
University of Memphis
The Department of Political Science at the University of Memphis hired Sharon Stanley as an Assistant Professor. Her PhD is from the University of California, Berkeley; her dissertation is The Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism.
University of Minnesota
Nancy Luxon, who received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, was hired as an Assistant Professor. She will begin teaching at Minnesota in the fall of 2007. She is currently on a teaching postdoc at the University of Chicago and will remain there one more year.
Morehead State University
Stefan Brooks was hired as Assistant Professor of Government in the Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy (IRAPP). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Houston; his dissertation was on the Webster-Hayne Debates and the political thought of Abraham Lincoln.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has filled its tenure-track position in political theory with the appointment of Mark J. Lutz as assistant professor of political science. Prof. Lutz received his PhD from the University of Toronto and has taught at the University of Notre Dame, St. John's College, and in 2005-6 as a visiting assistant professor at UNLV. His publications include Socrates' Education to Virtue (State University of New York Press, 1998.
SUNY Albany
Ruth Groff was hired as a two-year visiting professor. Her PhD is from York University. She will come to Albany from a visiting post at Williams College. Her publications include Critical Realism, Post-postivism and the Possibility of Knowledge (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism, 2004).
Pacific University
Pacific hired Jeffrey A. Becker (Ph.D.Rutgers) at the rank of Assistant Professor. Since completing his degree at Rutgers, Dr. Becker has had a post doctoral teaching position at UC-Davis and an adjunct appointment at Chico State.
Pepperdine University
Bryan McGraw was hired as an Assistant Professor. He completed his dissertation at Harvard and did a one-year post-doc at Notre Dame.
Pomona College
Pomona hired Susan McWilliams at the rank of assistant professor; her PhD is from Princeton.
Reed College
Reed College has hired Tamara Metz at the Assistant Professor level, tenure track. She is finishing her graduate work at Harvard.
Rhodes College
Rhodes hired Rafael Major as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
University of Richmond
The Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond hired Karen Dale Zivi as an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies. She received her PhD from Rutgers University. Her dissertation title was Reading Rights: Feminism and the Politics of Resistance. Her most recent appointment has been as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
St. Mary's College hired Dustin Howes, who had been visiting at the State University of New York - Oswego.
Lander College of Arts and Sciences of Touro College
Thomas Rozinski was hired as a visiting assistant Professor of Political Science for one year. He has a Harvard JD and is ABD at the Kennedy School.
Tulane University
Tulane has hired Frank Kalinowski, as a Visiting Associate Professor for a one year term. He will be on leave from Warren Wilson College.
Ursinus College
Jonathan Marks was hired at the rank of Associate Professor. Professor Marks received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, and comes to Ursinus from Carthage College in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He is the author of Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Vermont
Vermont has hired William Curtis. His PhD is from Duke, and his JD from California. His rank is Lecturer (Visiting Assistant Professor equivalent).
Virginia Tech
Bettina Koch was hired as an Assistant Professor. Her PhD is from the University of Vechta, Germany
West Virginia University
The Department of Political Science of West Virginia University has hired Philip Michelbach as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) beginning in August 2006. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, in 2005. Previously he had taught as a lecturer at UCSD and at San Diego State University.
Whitman College
Ella Myers was hired as a, visiting assistant professor. Her Ph.D is from Northwestern University.
University of Wyoming
Wyoming hired Dr. Teena Gabrielson from Southwestern University as an assistant professor. The following schools reported that they did not make appointments this past year, for various reasons, including some cases in which searches are still in progress:
Catholic University of America
Chaffey College
Dartmouth College
Deep Springs College
James Madison University
Midwestern State University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
Southern Connecticut State University"
The 2nd Harvard hire from last year is Michael Frazer, who will start as Asst. Prof. in 2007-2008. He is currently on a postdoc at Brown and is listed as an "Associate" of Harvard's Department.
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