Talk:Art History 2009-2010

Um, for those of us that are still unemployed, could we perhaps start a support network or something? I am sure I am not alone and I would like to hear about the strategies others are developing to deal with this situation. If something like this already exists, if someone could post some information about it, I would be very grateful. 69.114.218.205 18:52, September 2, 2009 (UTC)

Who is the administrator of this wiki? There seems to be some hacking going on (with adds and such) and I wonder who is taking care of that sort of thing...

VAPs?
Should there be a separate section for Visiting positions and sabbatical replacements? Some of them state a preference of field (like Oberlin) but not all of them. Thoughts?

I was actually wondering if fellowships/postdocs shouldn't be listed under their topics, like VAP jobs -- it amounts to almost the same thing these days, doesn't it? I think it makes more sense to have everything for each field in one place, since it's the same circle of people applying for many (if not most) of them. Another thought: should there be a section for museum jobs, perhaps of all shapes and sizes? Or if there is a separate wiki for that, can someone give me the link?

But lots of VAPs and postdocs don't specify a field... I guess then they would just go under general?

- Re section on museum jobs: please feel free to add in museum positions!!! In past years, curatorial positions have been listed on the wiki, sometime in a separate section, sometime mixed in with teaching jobs (ie, a Ren curator position would be listed with other Renaissance jobs). I think they often don't get posted here, though, because museum jobs don't usually follow the typical academic hiring schedule.

Job Search
Anyone else feeling nervous about the job market this year? yes! we should use this forum to have a discussion about our collective frustrations. it's bad to be a modernist this year... (1/12)

yes, bad year to be an Americanist too (1/12)

or perhaps the outlook is bleak overall for freshly minted phds. has anybody started thinking about plan b?

Yes, venting frustrations is good. Plan B? No one warned us we would need one! I'm open to suggestions.

(np) I'm madly applying for student advising poistions at my school, along with all the English Phds and History Phds that don't have jobs either. It sounds like a good job, actually.