Archaeology 09-10

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On the Job Market - 39

Just lurking - 2

Current Searches

Tenure Track Assistant Professor (21):
 * Adelphi University - North America, Environmental Archaeology
 * Adelphi University - North America, Environmental Archaeology

- No Deadline listed

I think the Adelphi University deadline has passed - although anyone interested should inquire. I sent in an application and a query and they answered a couple weeks later that they were beginning the selection process.

- they have a short list, campus interviews scheduled for Jan/Feb. 12/2

Rejection letter received 12/8

-Acknowledgement of application received by mail Dec. 10
 * Boston University - Mesoamerica

- Deadline November 1
 * Brown University - Complex Societies, Latin America

-Additional materials requested 11/13

letters requested from references 11/15

-Short list of four, interviews in February


 * Coastal Carolina University - Not specifically stated, but it appears that they want a Southeasternist

- Deadline October 31

- phone interview scheduled 11/2

- Congrats on the interview. Do you know (or anyone else) whether this means they have already determined their long-short list?

- appears that yes, long-list compiled. They said they would be calling by Nov. 20 with invite to interview on campus.

- Campus interview scheduled, 11/11

- Offer received 12/7

- Deadline October 15
 * Connecticut College - North America, Historic Archaeology (also accepting associate prof applications)

-anyone else think this is an inside hire? the VP fits the ad and is an alum...

-looks like it...:(

-don't fool yourself. most of the postings on this page are inside appointments.

-really?

-Relisted on HigherEdJobs 10/30

-ouch..thanks for the update. Guess I'll cross that job off the list. I assume that if they liked their pool they

wouldn't relist.

-AAA interview scheduled 11/23 (x 4)

-Phone interview being scheduled

-To repeat above post...anyone know if this is an inside hire?

- I don't know this from anyone at Conn, but through the grapevine I did hear that yes, the VP is among the candidates for this position.

- Deadline November 9
 * DePaul - Open, preference given to candidates who can organize a field school (open rank); prehistoric specialty, but additional experience in historic archaeology preferred

- AAA interview scheduled 11/20

- they have long short list of 15 for AAA interviews from 130 applicants (rejection email)


 * Eastern New Mexico- SW, ceramics

- Deadline Jan 4

- Deadline November 12
 * Franklin and Marshall College - Social Inequality, Race, Urbanism, South America, Asia, Caribbean

- 11/18: interview requested at AAA's-- 12 people on the long short list, out of 120 applicants


 * Johns Hopkins- Near East complex societies (outside Egypt), tenure-track OR tenured (so, open rank?)

- Deadline December 1

- acknowledgement of application (email); review will start "in coming weeks" 12/10

Lehman College - Prehistoric Central or South America, complex societies

-Deadline Nov 30

-acknowledgement of application (email) 12/15

- Deadline December 15
 * NYU-AD- Ancient World, any level (Ass't, Assoc., Full).


 * Pacific Lutheran University - New World

- Deadline October 31

- This position was posted on the AAA website earlier this summer, but now it is not there. Can anybody confirm that it has not been pulled?

- Can't confirm that it was pulled, but can confirm that the research interests of their visiting scholar perfectly match the posted job description (inside hire???).
 * It is still listed on their employment page.
 * Materials and letters requested.

- Acknowledgement and Affirmative Action Info request recieved (Nov 12)

Hmmm, any news on this search? The original announcement expressed a desire to conclude before Dec 2009 * Nope, same boat here - got confirmation of submission and not a peep since then.


 * I too was told over email from the Huelsbeck that this search was on fast-track to be completed before the Christmas break. But no further word at all. I have suspected this is an inside hire all along, but in that case I would expect the process to be moving much more quickly.

- Deadline November 2
 * Southern Methodist University - Environmental Archaeology, Zooarch, P-Bot, North America, Pacific Islands

Email rejection letter received 11/11.
 * - Phone interview scheduled 11/16


 * SUNY Brockport - Open; ability to teach a local field school preferred

- Deadline November 15

- rejection email 12/2

-request for additional materials 12/3

-does anyone have any more info on whether or they they still want both official and undergrad grad transcripts?


 * University of Florida - Florida Museum of Natural History- Curator, Florida Archaeology

- Deadline December 4
 * - Email acknowledgement of materials received, 12/3

- Deadline November 16
 * University of Illinois at Chicago - Asia, SE Asia

- Acknowledgment letter and equal opportunity survey received via snail mail 12/5

- Deadline October 19 Interviews scheduled December
 * University of Kansas - Holocene North America, Great Plains

- This position was offered last year but pulled due to budgetary problems

- Deadline December 1
 * University of Nevada, Reno - Paleoindian, North America (also accepting associate prof applications, will also be executive director of Sundance Archaeological Research Fund)

- Scheduling phone interviews 12/11


 * University of North Carolina Greensboro - Archaeology or physical anthro, particularly   interested in one or more of the following research foci: continuity and change in the face of contact, the development of complex systems, and/or the origins and maintenance of inequality, paleoanthropology, human biology, and/or human skeletal biology.

-Deadline Nov 15, but today (Nov 10) it is not on the anthro dept web page or the university employment page. Anyone know if it's been pulled? It's still advertised on AAA.


 * -Acknowledgment letter and equal opportunity form received via snail mail 11/20


 * University of Pittsburgh - Complex Societies Latin Am. (open rank)

- Deadline Oct 20        Continuing search that was canceled last year.

- letter indicating 13 candidates (of 120) had been selected for further interviews

-rejection email received 11/21

- rejection email received 12/14


 * University of Texas at Arlington - Mesoamerica, Southwest

- Deadline November 23

(this posting has been yanked from the AAA, Higher Chron, & SAA job websites-- and it's still a week before the deadline to submit. did they lose funding for the position?) No. the search is active.

- Snail mail acknowledgment letter (including standard equal opportunity form) received Nov. 19.

- Interviewed at AAA - Interviewed on phone - Requested letters and transcripts post AAA interview

- Deadline October 30 &nbsp
 * University of Wisconsin at La Crosse (alternate link)- North America, Midwest

- Received request for additional materials, may be automatically sent to all applicants (Oct 30)

Yeah, it's automatic. Everyone I know got the request for 5 more essays.


 * University of Wisconsin Madison - New World (North, Central, or South America), pref for archaeometry or paleoethnobotany

- Deadline December 11 - Starting at $37,800.00 (is this just exploiting a bad job market? it is insulting to expect a qualified Ph.D. for this salary - especially at a major research university.) (Agreed-- this is only slightly above a postdoc salary.) It's also about $200 less than the average yearly salary for an assistant store manager at Wal-Mart. (And the best part is that there are recent grads from last year so desperate for a job ANY JOB PLEASE A JOB PLEASE that they'd do it for less. Yikes)(Yikes indeed)

- on the Madison page this lists as $57,800 - that earlier number is probably a typo

- Acknowledgment letter and equal opportunity info request received via snail mail 11/21


 * University of Wisconsin Madison - East and SE Asia

- Deadline December 11


 * William and Mary- Historical Archaeology- Africa and/or African Diaspora

- Deadline November 2

--Any news?

-interviews being scheduled 11/29

-12/1 request for additional materials but no AAA invite...strange?

-Yes, I also got the request for materials on 12/1 but no AAA interview. I thought it was weird too.

- That does seem strange. There is a Visiting Assistant Prof there who fits the job description, and I wondered if it was an inside hire. Anyone have any info on that?

-Only time can tell, but according to the forums, only 50% of inside candidates actually get the job. Best of luck!

Advanced Professor (2):


 * Brown University - Mediterranean, Near East

-rejection by snail mail 11/09


 * University of Indiana - Native America
 * Northwestern University- Complex societies, area open, Associate or Full. Deadline March 1st.

Non Tenure Track (7):

Humboldt State University

-deadline Nov 30. This is a very quick hire--begins January 2010!

-Received acknowledgement letter via email 11/24.

-Mentions applications will be reviewed soon after deadline and candidates will be contacted shortly afterward.

-Phone interview scheduled 12/7
 * Depauw- Three year renewable position - Bioanth/Arch, Human Origins
 * Scheduling phone interviews
 * Campus invite


 * Southern Illinois University - One year post-doc - Center for Archaeological Investigations Visiting Scholar


 * Crow Canyon Research Center - President and CEO


 * Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center - Projects Director

-Request for letters, may be automatically sent to all applicant (Letters were required up front, so they probably contacted all applicants who didn't include them?); Ad didn't say anything about letters up front; online application automatically generates emails to referees
 * Kenyon College - Visiting Assistant Professor

-11/21 AAA/Phone interview requested

-11/28 AAA interview requested (is it weird that I got this a week after the above person was asked for an interview?)

- It might not mean anything, but maybe it could mean that they had a few top candidates who they wanted to give more flexibility to, scheduling-wise, and once they were sorted out they contacted the rest of the list?


 * Vanderbilt- One Year Research Associate
 * Victoria - Three year, possibly renewable- open (Jan 8th)


 * Duke University - Lecturing Fellow   -Rejection email 12/17 (~750 applications!)

General Discussion, Rumors, and Speculation

The latest issue of the Smithsonian Anthropology newsletter indicates that they are working to fill two curator positions including one in Indigenous North America. The SI Human Resources page doesn't have any info on this. It may be something for an archaeology PhD, but does anybody have info? Is the search already concluded? Not an open search? (September 22)

- informed that I made it past the first round of screening on this on (11/4) -rejection email (12/16)

Kudos to whoever put the schools in alphabetical order- makes browsing the page much easier.

- Anyone else disgusted with the standard operating procedures of these search committees this year? Requiring large amounts of materials, including letters of rec and transcripts (! really?) before they've even bothered to get to a medium list. It's rampant this year, probably as a lazy tactic that allows them to throw a bunch of applicants in the waste basket. Wisconsin is the worst example of this... Writing samples, teaching evaluations,sample syllabi, AND letters of recommendation before they've bothered to even get to a medium list? Really not the right way to do things. No wonder Jason Yaeger left.