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More Isn’t Necessarily Better: Some Thoughts on the Job Search Process

by Russell McCutcheon

Another job search season is upon us and, not yet knowing if our Department will be lucky enough to search for a new tenure track line (this year I submitted requests for two, in fact), I thought I’d offer a little unsolicited advice to people on the job market (and simultaneously solicit anyone else with experience on search committees in our field to contact me to consider writing a guest blog for our site, reflecting on these very issues from […]

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The Rhetoric of Exceptionalism

by Russell McCutcheon

The other day Inside Higher Ed posted an article that has now been re-posted at Slate. It’s one among many recent blogs that chronicles the longstanding difficulties of the academic job market, making evident the personal, social, and economic prices many people pay while trying to find work after earning their Ph.D. A much quoted line when friends post links to it on Facebook, from its second paragraph, reads as follows: Yet of all the machines that humanity has created, […]

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