Reply to Has the faculty search gotten worse?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Has the faculty search gotten worse?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those are fine professors. No, they aren't household names, but everyone has to start out assistant and make themselves known. There's an economist from UChicago, a Princeton classicist, and a legal studies professor from Harvard. An uninteresting lineup but they'll make themselves known.[/quote]
I'm checking through their pages and it looks like they are amateurs. Sakeef Karim, one of the new full time faculty, has only published 3 articles, has only gotten small grant funding, and has less research experience than a newly minted PhD student...How this person is getting a position at Amherst College is very very suspicious.[/quote]

This seems very troll-y. He got his PhD in 2022, had two articles published in 2024 with a half dozen more publications in progress and he’s in sociology so the noise about “grant money” and “research experience” seems pretty off base. [/quote]

Agree.  Why are we bringing up names of individual faculty members at some random university?  I didn't bother to look this person up but I'd care more about the journals than the number of pubs.  For example, 3 AJSs would be great for a new faculty member.  Someone has an axe to grind with this person.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics