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"We Must Know Their Names: A Plea"
Fellow scholars: the existence of this page is a triumph for the present age and its cardinal values of transparency and the free flow of knowledge. We ought to congratulate ourselves on maintaining a civil and professional resource that helps to offset the asymmetry of information formerly extant between hiring committees and their would-be colleagues. WELL DONE, fellow art historians!
But our task is not finished. Nay, the full flower of the ArtHistoryPositions Wikia Scratchpad has scarce begun its bloom in that warm springtime air which we now begin to enjoy. A vital stage in the ontogeny of our beloved scratchpad has barely begun!
I refer to the dissemination of the NAMES of those our worthy and blessed colleagues who have or will have happily acceded to the chairs named herein. Which of our brave and virtous fellow thought-laborers have passed unscathed through the gauntlet, have charmed and bedazzled their gimlet-eyed senior future colleagues, have borne the weight of impecunious years of thankless toil and emerged fully-formed as faculty?
The public has a right to know!
Fellow mind-toilers, let not our hearts bear heavy with the weight of envy or ill-feeling towards them that will soon sip from the golden cup of professorhood. Let not the treacherous cloak of anonymity give us a false license to stoop to comments of a base or uncharitable nature. Rather let us undertake close study of our professional peers and rejoice in the good fortune that has accrued to a precious few among our number. I know that no fair-minded fellow brain-laborer could gainsay this appeal.
But to do this we must know their NAMES! O departmental moles! O well-connected also-rans! O proud successful candidates! Wilst thou deny us these precious drops of information? Wilst thou keep from us this vital knowledge for which we are so desperate? Wilst thou, at such great psychical cost, forbear to reveal that, our most fond wish - to know those, the hired scholars' NAMES?
SUGGESTED FORMAT
FIELD
Institution (parentheses for specific subfields mandated in ads)
Application Deadline:
Phone Interview Scheduled:
CAA Interview Scheduled:
Campus Visit Scheduled:
Offer Made:
Offer Accepted by ...
Sorry to butt in with a quick question: Does anyone know anything about the Enlightenment Visual Culture search at Maryland College Institute of Art (MICA)? It's not listed anywhere below.
[edit] ANCIENT
[edit] Brown University (Egyptology)
campus visits scheduled for mid Feb
Brown Un. (ancient art history)
[edit] Bryn Mawr College (Greek)
Request for recommendations and writing sample 11.30.07 (em) Interviews at AIA (1/08)
6 finalists invited to campus
Offered and accepted by...
[edit] College of William and Mary (Roman)
Conducted interview at AIA
Job offer made & accepted by... (2.15.08)
[edit] Fordham University (Greek/Roman/Late Antique)
Email request (received 12.17.07) for short writing sample, syllabi, and meeting at Lincoln Center Campus on 2.2.08 (update submitted by a candidate resident in NYC.) Email request for writing sample, syllabi, and interview at CAA (12.17.07)
Any word on whether campus interviews have been scheduled? (3.3.08)
I heard secondhand that someone was contacted for a campus interview, but I don't know exactly when it was or how contact was made. (3/3/08)
[edit] McMaster University (Greek)
APA interview notification (em) - 12.04.07 Campus visit notification (em) - 1.15.08 Offered and accepted by...
[edit] Northwestern University/Kaplan Institute (tenured)
[edit] Northwestern University (Mellon Fellowship)
Conducted interviews at the APA (1/08) Rejection email (1/24/07)
[edit] Princeton University (tenured)
[edit] Reed College (one-year replacement)
Request for interview at CAA (1/29/08, email)
[edit] UC Berkeley/Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology (Greek)
Interviews at AIA (1/08)
[edit] UNC-Chapel Hill (Roman preferred)
[edit] University of Toronto (Greek; Assistant/Associate)
Request for unreceived recommendations; notification that the SC would meet "in the next few days" 11.21.07 (em) Committee wil meet on Wed., 1.23.08, to select finalists.
[edit] University of Toronto (Aegean Bronze Age; tenured)
[edit] Vanderbilt University (Roman; tenured)
[edit] Wellesley College
[edit] MEDIEVAL
[edit] Middle Tennessee State University (Medieval and/or Renaissance)
1st round telephone interview requested: Oct. 30 2007
Request for on-campus interview: Dec. 10
April 14 they appear to be starting the second round. I was called to see if I am still available.
Wow, this might be the slowest search I've ever seen.
April 22
received letter saying they have suspended the search.
[edit] UC Berkeley (Medieval)
Application Deadline: 15 November
Seem to have candidates giving talks on Jan 23-Feb 5th.
Offer made offer accepted by Beate Fricke
Congratulations!
[edit] UCLA (Western Medieval)
Application Deadline: 15 November
On Campus Invitations Extended 12/4
Search cancelled because no suitable candidate found 2/7
(Additional exchanges relocated to discussion page.)
[edit] UNC Chapel Hill (European Medieval/Early Modern, 1000-1700)
Application Deadline: 1 December
CAA interview scheduled by phone 1/15/08
Campus interviews scheduled 2/23/08
Offer Made 3/7/08
Offer has been accepted by Paroma Chatterjee (University of Chicago)
Congrats!
[edit] James Madison University (Medieval and Renaissance)
Application Deadline: 1 December
CAA Interview Scheduled: arranged by phone on 12.18.07
Phone call to schedule on-campus interviews (3.4.08).
Has an offer been made?
Job offered and accepted by Sarah Brooks (IFA).
Congratulations! And what a beautiful part of the country!
[edit] University of Virginia (Medieval)
Application Deadline: 9 January. Email request for CAA interview and reference letters (2.1.08).
Telephone call for CAA interview (2/6/08)
Have campus visits been scheduled? (2/28/08)
Phone call to schedule campus visits in 2nd and 3rd week of March (2/29/08).
Rejection letter received (dated March 6).
Offer accepted by Eric Ramirez-Weaver (IFA) (3/24/08)
http://www.virginia.edu/medievalstudies/courses.html
Congratulations!
- Name-posting repartee transferred to discussion section (see tab at the top of this page)
- More repartee transferred to discussion section.
[edit] Ohio State University (Byzantine/Medieval)
Application Deadline: 14 January;
CAA interview notification sent by email (2.4.08)
Has anyone received a confirmation that their application has been received? (2/6/08) Yes CAA interview but no initial confirmation of receipt.
Rejection letter received by mail (2/15/08) x3
Campus visits scheduled (02/23/08)
Offer Made (03/14/08)
Offer turned down, no other offers expected to be made this year (3/26/08)
Did you get the above from a reliable source (ie: call / letter or other contact from the committee), or is it still in the rumor stage?
Yes, reliable source but not official and not on the committee.
[edit] State University of New York at New Paltz (Islamic and Medieval)
Application Deadline: 15 January
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (1/11/08)
Any word on interviews at CAA or otherwise? (2/11/08). Not a word (2/12/08) x 5.
E-mail invitation for CAA interview (2/15/08) x 4
E-mail invitation for campus interview x 2
Can you say when the campus invitations went out?
Any updates?
[edit] California State University, Chico (Ancient Mediterranean or Medieval Art)
Application Deadline: 31 January
Email request to schedule phone interview for Feb. 4/5 with request for recommendations and teaching evaluations (2.1.08).
Phone request for campus visit (2.11.08).
Has anyone heard whether this search is going forward, or is another victim of CA budget cuts? (3/17/08)
It is my understanding that the Cal State system froze all their tt hiring system-wide the day after the budget cuts were announced.
Offer Accepted by Asa Mittman
[edit] Princeton University (Medieval Art and Architecture, Visiting Assistant Professor)
Application Deadline: 15 February
[edit] Drew University (Medieval / Islamic)
Application Deadline: 15 February Confirmation letter for receipt of application, noting: "We will be reviewing applications during the month of February." (2.12.08)
Has anyone else NOT heard anything from them? I applied in early January. (2/28/08)
nothing (2/28/08) x 2
They seem to be more on the ball with the Modernist search (see below)
Email (3.3.08) to schedule phone interviews for Friday, 3.7. (3/3/08) x 3.
Email to schedule on-campus visit (3/9/08).
Offer made & accepted by... (4/7/08).
Any idea by whom?
[edit] Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Medieval Art and Architecture)
Open position (assistant or associate), full-time, tenure-track Application deadline: ASAP; "screening of candidates begins April 18 and continues until position is filled."
This was just posted last week on CAA Careers. (3/31)
They have a Byzantinist in Department. Anybody knows why do they advertise through Byzantine Studies?
The Byzantinist is leaving to join the Tufts faculty: endowed Armenian chair.
Phone interviews conducted (5/2/08). (x3)
Email to inquire about final exam and travel schedule for 2/2 of May (5/2/8). (x2) is a campus invite implied?
Hard to say, right?
I also did not understand the previous statement but it sounds like a campus invitation. (5/6/08)
[edit] Savannah College of Art and Design (Medieval - Atlanta campus)
They are not offering me a position but the letter doesn't say if they've chosen another candidate or postponed hiring. Isn't this a college to be feared? (5/5)
This is a college absolutely to be avoided. They hire only on one-year contracts, there is no tenure, and the turnover is outrageous. The college was soundly repremanded by the Assn. of University Professors a few years back when the administration fired several professors who supported the students' request for a student senate. If you keep track of the job listings in the Chronicle, they usually have at least ten a year. 5/9
[edit] ISLAMIC
[edit] California State University, Long Beach (Islamic and either S. Asian or Medieval)
Receipt of application via e-mail (1/3/08); any updates (2.14.08)? Not a word (2/15/08).
Hmm. You may want to call HR and see if the search has been pulled. I applied for it last year, but it lost its funding. They changed the area of expertise this year, too.
This search, along with one for design history that they'd advertised, has been removed from their Website: http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/aa/personnel/jobs/cota/
Yes, but that could be because they are no longer accepting applications - I have run into this with other universities to which I have applied this year, but the searches are still ongoing. Just give Human Resources a call and ask. If the search has been cancelled, they will know.
Search canceled due to budget cuts (per Art Department) (3/5/08)
Search cancellation letter received (3.14.08)
[edit] Brown University
1/2 Anyone heard anything about this?
yes: campus visits scheduled for mid Feb (22 January 2008)
Request for letters of support 2/15/08. Will not hold CAA interviews
A bit confused: how are they holding campus interviews and asking for letter of support at the same time?
Yes, confusing. Are they expanding the search? Pure speculation.
They are bringing in candidates from each of the three fields. That might be why there is some confusion references interviews (perhaps a different timetable for each field).
[edit] Smith (post-doc)
Has anyone been contacted for CAA interviews? (Their acknowledgement letter mentioned selecting candidates by end of January)
CAA Interview Scheduled:(received e-mail/ 1/31/08)
Has anyone heard from them re campus visits?
Campus visits scheduled for this week (3/10) at Smith.
Has anyone been contacted after the campus visit? (3/28/08)
Offer has been extended and accepted by...
[edit] Rutgers (Islamic history and/or Islamic art history)
Has anyone heard from them? (1/25/08)
not a word...(1/25/08)
Looks like campus visits have been scheduled: web site lists events that appear to be job talks.
Yes, two candidates--from MIT and UPenn
Please give weblink...
http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/events/events.php (see two talks under Past Events)
Rejection letter received 3/20/08 on Department of History letterhead -- is it safe to assume the position went to an historian, not an art historian?
Based on what I've heard, the position has gone to an art historian.
Looks like an offer has been made and accepted based on Fall 2008 course list: http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/course/?student=u&import=p
[edit] Drew University (Medieval / Islamic)
Application Deadline: 15 February See above under "Medieval"
Email (3.3.08) to schedule phone interviews for Friday, 3.7.08. (3/3/08).
Email to schedule on-campus interviews (3/9/08).
[edit] ASIAN
[edit] UC - Irvine, Chinese and/or Korean art
Application Deadline: 1 November
Offer made.
[edit] UC - Santa Cruz, Assistant Professor, Asian Visual Culture
Application Deadline: 1 November
Has anyone heard from them?
Not a word (2/9)
Campus interviews scheduled for late Feb. early March
could you tell me when the campus visits were scheduled?
- 2/14/08 - rejection letter via snailmail - ca. 75 applicants
Offer made (4/4)
Anyone know who got this, or at least which field within Asian art?
[edit] UC - Santa Cruz, Associate Professor, Asian Visual Culture
Rec'd rejection letter prior to CAA. It said they were looking for someone whose work complemented that of their China specialist. Wish they had made this known in the job posting!
[edit] Ohio State University, South Asian art history
Campus interviews scheduled mid-March 2008.
any news? has an offer been made? (3/26/08)
search suspended; may be re-opened (and broadened) next year
they also apparently have stopped their medieval search, in that case after making an offer (see above) - any ideas about why no hires this year? Just not finding what they were looking for?
With regard to the medieval search, I know for a fact that the person to whom they made an offer turned them down in favor of another job. Hopefully they'll search again next year...
As an FYI - as someone who has been on both sides of failed searches (i.e. as a candidate and as a job search committee member), I can say that any speculation is potentially dangerous. Searches fail for all sorts of reasons that may not be immediately obvious and that may not be as ominous as some tend to think. There are just far too many people (and factors) involved in any one decision, and unless you're in the final meeting, you'll probably never know why a search turns out exactly the way that it does (and, quite frankly, even if you are in that meeting, it still may not be entirely clear). For the record, I have nothing to do with the OSU position.
[edit] Colby College, Asian art history
[edit] Louisiana State University, Asian art history
Request for CAA interview by email (2/8/08)
Campus interview scheduled by email (3/3/08)
Offer made and accepted by... (4/2/08)
[edit] Roger Williams, Asian
Application Deadline: January 15
Contacted by email for CAA interview (2/17)
Any word post-CAA? x2 anyone heard? (3/19)
The dean is pushing the search committee to make a decision for campus interviews, but they seem to be having problems getting together for a meeting. RWU is usually a good month later than everyone else sending our campus invites. I recommend patience. (3/24)
Short list has been made - invites for campus interviews are forthcoming (4/1)
Has anyone heard from them?
They have made the arrangements for two candidates to come, and have contacted a third - don't know if there will be a fourth. Interviews scheduled for April 14th and 17th at present.
The four candidates have been chosen for campus visits. (4/10)
[edit] UNC Chapel Hill, East Asian
Application Deadline: 15 November Has anyone heard from them?
Does anyone have any info on this?
Offer has been accepted. Wei-Cheng Lin (University of Chicago)
[edit] University of Chicago, Japanese
Campus interviews scheduled for early Feb
any news?
Offer made and accepted by...
[edit] University of Toronto, Scarborough, Asian or Islamic Modern/Contemporary
Campus interviews in early Feb
[edit] University of St Thomas, East Asia or Americas
Request for CAA interview by phone (1/9/08) any word post-CAA? campus interview arranged by phone (March 3, 2008)
Any further news?
[edit] University of Washington-Seattle, Chinese Art
Application Deadline: 4 January
Has anyone heard from them? campus interviews were conducted in Feb. No rumors about offer yet? Offer has been made.
[edit] Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Chinese Art
how could there be no information yet on here about this job. hello people! Its IFA! So, whats the scoop?
Four candidates shortlisted, job talks began 2/19
I doubt that folks in the running for this job are using the wiki
No, but students attending the job talks are.
Yes, but it isn't very cool to post names of other folks (and I have no idea who the candidates are)
Huh? What are you talking about?
Are all the campus interviews done now? any idea when an offer will be made?
Last one came and went. Dunno when they'll decide. There were 3 women and 1 man.
[edit] University of Hawaii, Manoa, South Asia/Southeast Asia
"Preliminary interview" at CAA
[edit] AFRICAN
[edit] Princeton University
Campus visit scheduled for Jan. 17th
Grapevine: offer made end of March.
[edit] University of British Columbia - Okanagan
[edit] RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE/EARLY MODERN
[edit] Alfred University (pref.given to Ren-Baroque)
App deadline: Jan 15, 2008
Search cancelled
[edit] American University of Rome (Renaissance/Baroque)
First-round phone interviews held 12/13-12/14 (12/15/2007)
Invitation to submit references sent by e-mail, 12/16 (12/16/2007)
Campus visit invitation (12/19/07)
Campus visit scheduled 2/13/08
Offer made and accepted by... (3/18/08)
Can anyone say who accepted?
[edit] Augustana College (Renaissance)
Application Deadline: Dec. 7, 2007
Invitation by phone for campus interview in January (12/22/07)
Rejection letter received (1/14/08)
Offer made and accepted, though I wasn't told who took it (2/24/08)
[edit] Buffalo State College (Ren-Bar)
Application Deadline: Nov 1 2007
Letters of Recommendation Requested: Nov. 28
Request for telephone interview by both phone and e-mail (Jan. 25)
Have they scheduled on campus interviews yet?
I asked for a time frame after my phone interview - they basically did not tell me anything, just that there were more interviews the following week, then the deliberations, but no firm idea as to when campus interviews would take place. I figure they are waiting til after CAA.
Thanks.
Campus interview scheduled (2/21)
Search has not yet been concluded (per e-mail) (4/4)
SIX WEEKS since my campus visit, and still nothing??? (This from the people who wouldn't (or couldn't) give me a salary range!)
One-line e-mail in response to my request for info stating that the job had been offered. When were they planning on letting the rest of us know? (4/22)
Few things are more frustrating than having to wait so long for news. But even if the job has been offered, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're out of the running. I have nothing to do with this department or search, but know from previous experience that this long silence could mean that you're "above the line" -- in which case, you will be the next person they call if the first offer-ee turns them down. As long as you don't hear anything, you're still in the game. As for salary, it's rare for any numbers to be discussed until they make you an offer.
[edit] California State University (Early Modern/Latin American)
Application Deadline: Nov. 30, 2007
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (11/26/07)
[edit] CalPoly San Luis Obispo (Renaissance/Baroque)
Application Deadline: Dec. 14, 2007
Request for missing letter: Jan. 6, 2008
Request for phone interview: Jan. 20, 2008
Request for campus interview: Jan. 29, 2008
What is the status of the search. Has it been canceled because of California budget cuts?
I heard an offer was made an accepted....
[edit] Clark University (Renaissance/Baroque)
Application Deadline: Nov. 20, 2007
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (10/24/07)
Request for additional information and CAA interview via email (12/20/07)
Request for additional information and availability for potential CAA interview via email (12/20/07)
Request for a CAA interview via telephone (02/07/08) x 2
For those of you who interviewed with Clark: how did the interview go? Has anyone heard anything about campus interviews? Did they give a timeline for the search?
Haven't heard anything. I asked about a timeline. They said that they are on spring break this week (3/3) and would have campus visits after that. I can't remember quite how they worded it, but they said something like they would be giving people plenty of notice for campus visits.
Offer made and accepted by John Garton. (4/9)
[edit] Colgate (Art and Architecture, 15th to 18th centuries)
Application Deadline: Jan. 14, 2008
Acknowledged Receipt of app via letter: 1/17/08
Request for a CAA interview via email (02/07/08)
Has anyone heard something?
has an offer been made?
Received rejection letter that stated the position had been filled (04/30/08)
Apparently they hired the VAP for the slot although the rejection letter did not have the courtesy to pass along that information.
Um, what's a VAP?
Carolyn Guile is the visiting assistant professor. She's been there two years.
[edit] Duke University (Early Modern Art and/or Architecture of Southern Europe (1400-1750)
Application Deadline: Jan. 7, 2008
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (11/7/07)
Request for CAA interview via letter: 22 January 2008
Has anyone heard anything about this position? Any idea when they plan to send out calls for campus visits?
Perhaps they can't decide, for the third search in a row!
They are fishing for a senior appointment.
This sounds right to me -- I kind of got that feeling during the interview.
Campus visits scheduled for next week (3/18)
Offer made and accepted by...
[edit] James Madison University (Medieval and Renaissance)
Application Deadline: Dec. 1, 2007
Acknowledged Receipt of app via e-mail: 11/21/07
CAA Interview Scheduled: arranged by phone (12.18.07) x2
Any news? (3/4)
They called at least one Medievalist for a campus interview (see above under Medieval)
Has an offer been made?
Yes, and accepted (see Medieval)
Job offered and accepted by Sarah Brooks (IFA).
[edit] Johns Hopkins (Italy, 1500-1700)
Application Deadline: Dec. 31, 2007
Any news on this one?
This is a continued search from last year for a senior appointment. I would be suprised if anyone on this wiki hears from them, though if you do, congrats. Dempsey's shoes are pretty big to fill.
As I understand it, they're looking for both a senior Northern person and a junior Italianist. I think the Northern search is done, but was wondering about the junior one.
Hmm - I only saw the listing for the senior position. They must be looking for an Italian baroque person, then, since Stephen Campbell is still there. Wish I had known about this - I didn't apply.
Reliable Source: Mitchell Merback was offered and accepted the senior northern position.
[edit] Kenyon College (Ren-Baroque, one year Sabat replacement)
Application deadline: Dec 14
Anyone know what's going on with this one?
Perhaps they're waiting until they know that the musical chairs with TT jobs has slowed down and that their remaining options would actually consider a one-year job?
I am wondering too. My guess is also that they are waiting.
Campus interview invitation (3/1/08)
Did anyone have a pre-campus interview?
Yes, they interviewed at CAA.
Offer made and accepted by...
Rejection letter received (4/7/08)
[edit] Kutztown University (Ren-Baroque)
Application deadline: Dec. 30, 2007
Request for CAA interview via email (01/30/08) (x4)
Did anyone else find this interview sort of entertaining? Nice people, iffy job (4/4, and 3/3 of that are survey sections-- eek), but. . . *too* honest? It seemed like at least one committee member was more interested in warning candidates off than in sucking them in.
I didn't get that feeling at all - we talked about how to manage that monster survey section, the future goals of the department, etc. That one committee member sat off in a corner in my interview, so I almost never made eye contact, and he made the cardinal error of asking a personal question about my family. He was having trouble with his back, and I suspect he is a curmudgeon by nature.
That must be the same committee member that I mean-- during my interview he was much more. . . participatory, and that must have shifted the vibe considerably.
I would discount him. There's one in every crowd, and we don't know what's motivating him. The poor fellow was in real pain when I interviewed, and since I have a slipped disc myself, I know what it's like. He probably spent the entire conference wishing he was home in his bathtub. Oh, and by the way, I think it's two sections of survey - the major and non-major sections (30 and 150 respectively), and they are completely renovating the facilities. You can't beat the area, either. At least we can afford to buy a house on an academic salary, and are an hour from Philly and not much more from NYC!
Does anyone remember when they were planning to make their decision for campus visits? I neglected to make a note. (They have just finished campus visits for the other position, so I would assume it will be soon) (3/3)
They are making calls right now; they will be able to invite 3 candidates (03/04)
Has anyone actually heard from them? (3/5)
I have not (I interv'd with them at CAA, FWIW). (3/5)
Phone call for campus interview (3/5) x 2
Drat. I really liked the committee, and would have been 45 minutes away from my children if I had gotten the job.
Received letter stating that the position had been filled (05/05) -- a really nice letter: these people are classy
[edit] Middle Tennessee State University (Medieval and/or Renaissance)
1st round telephone interview requested: Oct. 30 2007
Request for on-campus interview: Dec. 10
Received letter that search has been cancelled.
[edit] Northwestern (Italian Renaissance/Early Modern)
Application Deadline: Nov. 1, 2007
Acknowledged receipt of application via e-mail (11/12/07)
Request for recs (11/12/07)
Campus visits in progress (Jan-Feb)
[edit] Oberlin College(Renaissance/Baroque)
Application Deadline: Jan. 7, 2008
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (12/20/07)
Contacted to request missing letters (1/16/08)
CAA interview schedules via e-mail (2/10/08)
On-campus interview invitation extended (2/26/08)
Offer made and accepted (by Christina Neilson, curator of “Parmigianino's 'Antea': A Beautiful Artifice,” Frick Collection)
[edit] Old Dominion(1400-1800)
Application Deadline: Jan. 15, 2008
Has anyone heard from these folks?
Not a word. (2-19)
Received call to set up an "informational meeting" at CAA (02/19/08) -- I'm assuming that this is actually an interview?
Did the meeting atually take place? I was en route on the 19th to CAA. Talk about last minute planning.
Yes: 3-3 teaching load, lots of survey, large classes, division 1 basketball. That sums up our discussion.
I received an e-mail response to my query about the search, and was told that they were still determining whom to interview. They didn't contact me for the info meeting, but she also didn't tell me I was out of the running. The women's basketball team has been a powerhouse for years.
Contacted for phone interview (Feb 27) (n.b. I was not one of those whom they had contacted earlier about 'informational meeting', for what it's worth, so the ball's still in the air, I suppose (har))
Eeew! As a longtime supporter of the Lady Vols (UT, Knoxville), I can't help but giggle at the pun. Maybe they found out my sordid past and will not consider me, due to my sports affiliations!
I got home this afternoon to find a mailing from ODU - thought it was my rejection letter, since people have already been contacted for interviews. Turns out it was my EOAA form, dated 2/25! Do you suppose they are calling as they work their way through the dossiers? (3/3)
Hey, thanks for posting that -- I didn't bother to open the envelope until I read your post, thinking it was a rejection! But it does seem like a pretty random search process, and they'd better hustle if they want to get anyone....
Agreed!
Apparently, they are setting up telephone interviews for this week (03/04).
Yes (perhaps my entry above was too easy to miss); Telephone interview arranged for 3-5-08 (they e-mailed on Feb 27) (but only received the EOAA form on 3-4-08)
Have you been invited for campus interviews? Anyone?
Nope-- on the phone, however, they mentioned that this is their spring break, and that they also have to wait for enough of the EOAA forms to make it back to whatever office so that the applicant pool is ok'd or something like that.
Thanks.
Request for campus interview via email (04/07)
Campus interviews completed; decision should be made in the next two weeks (04/29)
[edit] Reed College (Med., Ren., or Baroque, one year sabat. replacement)
Application Deadline: Jan. 7, 2008
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (1/09/08)
CAA interview scheduled via e-mail (2/4/08)
Go to the "Universities to Fear" page and you will see two complaints about Reed in other departments. Not a good sign.
rejection letter received
[edit] Rhode Island College (Ren./ Baroque)
Application Deadline: Feb. 8, 2008
Did anyone else out there apply for this one? Another HR application, so who knows how long it will take to hear from them. (3/2/08)
I also applied, and haven't heard anything.
Campus interview scheduled (03/06)x3
ORLY? They skipped the phone interviews?
That's not so uncommon with these types of schools. Campus interview complete (3/19). There are two more next week, and then the waiting game. They could not give me any real time line, due to the capriciousness of the President, who likes to OK appointments only when a stack has accumulated on his desk.
Search still not finalized (per e-mail) (4/15)
Campus interview scheduled (4/15)
Hmmm - does that mean the administration was not satisfied with the original candidates, or what? Some transparency here would be really nice at this point.
Offer made and accepted (Natasha Seaman) (4/29)
[edit] Salem State College (Renaissance)
Accepting applications until position filled
Changed to a one-year full time position. Change entails new search (11/26/07)
New job announcement for 1-year appointment on CAA website (4/1)
[edit] University of California Riverside (Renaissance Art and Architecture)
Application Deadline: Dec. 1, 2007
Video conference interview Jan. 11, 2008
Rejection letter received Jan. 22, 2008(x3)
Offer made and accepted by... Jeannette Kohl
[edit] University of California Irvine (European Art, 1400-1700)
Application Deadline: Nov. 1, 2007
CAA interview scheduled via phone (2/4/08)x4
I know it's probably early, given that UC is a state system, but has anyone heard anything? (3/3)
I was told that it would be about 2 weeks from the end of CAA, so it's likely a few days off still.
Thanks!
FYI out there: I heard that the Cal State system has frozen all their tenure track hires due to the latest budget cuts by Mr. Pumpin' Iron. I wrote Cecile Whiting, who told me that as far as they know, this will not affect the search for the Ren/Baroque position, and that they hope to make the final decision for campus visits very soon. (3/5)
Thanks for sharing this!
Cal State system, or U Cal system (2 different animals, AFAIK)?
It's Cal State not U Cal (see listing for CSU Dominguez Hills on this page), though I suppose hypothetically such problems could eventually spill over.
AACK! The waiting is killing me! Do you suppose they extended all the offers for campus visits to people who are not on the wiki? (3/12)
No news here either. Please don't make me work at Starbucks!
Starbucks has an excellent benefits package, however, from what I hear.
Yes, but the coffee is undrinkable.
Apparently they've made an offer to someone. Frankly, I can't really understand why they continued to say, even last week, that decisions about campus visits were imminent. Sorry, guys.
Where did you get your info (if it's not too sensitive)? If what you say is true, they made the offer without campus visits. There would not have been time to run them between CAA and now.
It is, unfortunately, from a reliable source. Usually I'm skeptical about the ubiquitous claims of "inside candidates," but I can't really think of an alternative explanation in this case.
Dammit. I don't like being treated this way. If on March 5th they had already decided who they were going to hire, they should have had the cojones to say so when I wrote them. There is no need to jerk people around like that. I am going to remember this when I am serving on search committees (assuming I get a job).
I second that. It's hard to fathom what the explanation could be. Best of luck to all of you.
They are hiring two Early Modernists, apparently, although they only advertised one position. So maybe not all hope is lost.
Now that is interesting, and actually it makes sense, since they lost two Early Modernists to retirement.
The two early modernists who retired shared one full-time position, however.
So where does that put us, then? I equate "very soon" with less than two weeks. I started doing campus visits two weeks ago - I could conceivably be getting an offer (though from a university to which I absolutely don't want to go) before I ever even hear from them. (3/18)
I would assume that it's all over for this one. Clearly they didn't follow through on their rather specific timeline, and so personally I don't think any of us should expect to get a call at this point.
I think you're right. I didn't do my best interview with them anyway. Still, it will be interesting to see who they hire.
So, has anyone heard anything? Was the second search a myth, or are they really hiring two people? (4/1)
Offer made and accepted by..., as per bulk e-mail rejection letter. (4-1-08)
Man, talk about obnoxious!
Eh, it was phrased in terms of expediency, so it could have been worse, eh?
Expediency, my foot. Bulk e-mail rejections are an insult to the time and effort we put into this process - I know they are busy, but just get the secretary to write a form letter and cut and paste addresses. Basically they are saying they are too busy to bother with us, since we didn't make the grade.
I agree, bulk email rejection letters are very tacky. Especially since "expediency" seems to be a priority only when it comes to rejections!!
This is the tackiest thing I have ever seen. A bulk email rejection!?
After overcoming my initial anger, I went out on a limb and wrote the search chair, gently chiding him for his choice of the bulk e-mail and explaining how it is received by the applicants. He read all of our comments here, and responded to me with an explanation of the situation. One of the things we all need to remember is that some of the info on this site may be erroneous - for instance that the two professors who retired shared one line (not true). The search apparently was embroiled in a number of administrative changes in direction, creating a much more difficult search than usual, not to mention mass confusion. He honestly thought it would be better to inform everyone of the job search status in as rapid a manner as possible, as a courtesy to us. I still don't agree with that approach, but he did tell me that if he had it to do over again, he would not have sent out the bulk e-mail. I considered asking his permission to post his response, but felt that might be going overboard. I hope I have not misrepresented him. This is a good example of how a more transparent search procedure could avoid this sort of thing - but I honestly don't know how that could be implemented.
I didn't apply for this job and thus was not impacted by the most outrageous bulk rejection email. But just hearing that it actually happened makes me so angry. I commend your bravery. Thank you who posted the previous comment and acted out against injustice.
It wasn't bravery that motivated me - simply a recognition that at a certain point in a job search the communication lines break down between applicants and search committee members. They think they are doing us a favor, while we see it as a monstrous insult. How would the search chair know how his decision impacted us, if someone did not speak out? This particular person had never cruised the wiki, I think - it was probably a real eye-opener for them to discover how their decision (made more for expediency and to keep from overwhelming the department secretary) impacted all of us. Maybe I'm naive, but I firmly believe that communication is the cure for most ills not treatable by antibiotics. Problem is, we act like cows at the slaughterhouse during the search, waiting for the coup-de-grace to smack us between the eyes. The solution is to act, not out of anger, but in a spirit of bettering the whole process.
[edit] University of Chicago (Early Modern)
Application Deadline: review of applications began Oct. 25, 2007
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (11/13/07)
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (11/27/07)
Campus visit invitation 12/11
Offer made
Offer accepted - Cecile Fromont
[edit] University of Memphis (Renaissance and Baroque)
Application Deadline: Jan. 11, 2008
Acknowledgment of receipt of Application: Jan. 10, 2008
Search committee to begin review of materials next week (1/11/2008)
Will not interview at CAA - phone interviews after short list has been determined (2/1/08)
Phone interviews scheduled for 2/14 and 2/15 by e-mail (2/8/08) x2
Telephone invitation for campus visit pending administrative approval. (2/27)
Campus interview scheduled (3/13)
Campus interviews complete (4/8)
Job offered, as of 4/18, no word if it had been accepted.
Offer accepted by... (4/29)
Now that I am out of the running, I can tell the other two of you who had phone interviews what happened at CAA. At the end of my phone interview, I was asked if I would like to get together with one of the search committee members at CAA for an "informal chat", as well as with the person who is retiring. I contacted them at CAA, and had a rather weird 45 minute conversation with the SC member. (He was very negative about Memphis, American Academe, and the research of his colleagues.) Later that afternoon, I was taken up to the Crowne Lounge for a meeting with the doyen. I felt I was being presented for approval, but we talked for over an hour. It turns out that Memphis' social equity office will not let them do CAA interviews - only phone calls. This was their way of getting around the rule. Obviously, they did not make this offer to every phone interviewee - it was sort of a second cut before campus visits. They treated me like visiting royalty at my campus visit - wonderful people, but gave the job to someone who had published more.
[edit] University of Minnesota (Early Modern/Latin American)
Application Deadline: Dec. 1, 2007
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (10/25/07)
Rejection letter received 12/30/2007
Campus interviews scheduled.
[edit] UNC Chapel Hill (European Medieval/Early Modern, 1000-1700)
Application Deadline: 1 December
CAA interview scheduled by phone 1/15/08
Any idea how many they're interviewing at CAA?
No, but it is usually in the 10 to 12 range (2/13/08)
See above in Medieval section..... seems campus visits have been scheduled.
An offer was made to a medievalist
Offer made and accepted (Paroma Chaterjee) (3/30/08)
[edit] University of St. Thomas
Application Deadline: Dec. 10, 2007
Acknowledged receipt of application via e-mail (11/5/07)
Request for CAA interview by phone (1/9/08) x2
Any post-CAA follow-up?
Request for campus visit via phone (3/3/2008)
Has an offer been made?
[edit] University of Texas at Austin (2-yr replacement)
CAA interviews scheduled via e-mail (2/14/2008)
anyone heard back about campus visits?
[edit] University of Texas at Dallas (1400-1800)
Application Deadline, Nov. 15, 2007
Requested (missing) letters: 12/13/07
Request for CAA interview by email (1/25/08)x4
In interview, did anyone get an idea about their timeline? Forgot to ask. . .
They told me that they have a faculty meeting on Friday. What was your sense of the interview?
They seemed like very nice folk-- quite down to earth and chatty (for my interview, at least, a couple of the committee were out ill/ in surgery, and the doc student who was present was feeling ill as well). Seemed that they'd actually read the applications very carefully. Sounded like an interesting . . . not-department.
Decisions on campus visits will be made after their spring break (week of 3/17). (per email 3/5/08)
Friendly rejection letter via e-mail; an offer has been made to a candidate (3-31).
Offer accepted by...
[edit] Vassar (Italian Art, 1400-1700)
Application Deadline: Dec. 3, 2007
Acknowledged receipt of application via e-mail (11/28/07)
CAA Interview Scheduled: via e-mail (12/16/07)
Invitation for on campus interview (02/26/08)
Offer made and accepted (04/30)
Would anyone feel comfortable telling us who got it? Thanks. (5/1)
Yvonne Elet (IFA)
[edit] Western Ontario (Renaissance/Baroque)
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2008
Acknowledged receipt of application via e-mail (1/30/08)
Rejection e-mail (2/25/07)x 3
[edit] Willamette University (Renaissance/Baroque/18th C)
Application Deadline: Oct. 31, 2007
Acknowledged receipt of application via letter (12/4/07)
E-mail request for phone interview (12/3/07)
Rejection letter received (12/6/07)x3
Campus visit invitation (12/19/07)
Rejection letter received after phone interview (12/27/07)
Anybody ever hear what happened with this one? I thought I gave a good phone interview with them, but didn't make the cut. (3/2/08)
I haven't heard anything, but consider yourself lucky. Salem is a terrible place, populated mostly by state bureaucrats and meth addicts.
LOL. I wasn't too keen on moving 3000 miles across country anyway, especially when a friend told me that the school's name rhymed with Goddammit.
Campus visits late Jan. and early Feb. Offer made and accepted by...
Do we know who got this one? Nice part of the country. Great wine and beer.
[edit] Yale University (Early Modern Europe or Iberian New World, )
Application Deadline: Jan. 15, 2008
CAA interview scheduled via e-mail (Feb. 4)
intimidating CAA interview.
On-campus interviews beginning in the first week of March (Q: is this information you received after being invited for an interview?)
I think this may be one of those occasional insider contributions to this page (something that, frankly, I wish more institutions would do)--but please do correct me if I'm wrong and you have actually heard some news.
You would actually want an institution to read some of the contributions that have been made to this wiki in the last week?!
Ha ha. No, but anything that makes this process less opaque is fine by me.
Yes, campus visits beginning in first week of March and continuing through first week of April.
Offer made.
Anyone know who got this? Thanks.
The offer is still in negotiations, so it would be premature to announce the name.
[edit] AMERICAN
Has time stopped in the land of Americanists? No news in over a month?
Hope this helps!
[edit] University of Minnesota
- Rejection letter received (1/11/08)
- CAA interview scheduled (2)
- Campus interviews conducted (3/28/08)
[edit] U California Riverside
- Video-conference interview scheduled (1/11/08) x 2
- Campus interviews conducted (3/28/08)
- Offered and accepted (4.1.08)
[edit] Syracuse U
- CAA interview scheduled (2/8) x2
- Any word on this one?
Offer made and accepted.
[edit] Towson University
- Telephone interview scheduled (2/6)
- Telephone interview conducted (2/13)
Rejection letter received 4/12 - they've hired another candidate that is a better fit. They returned all of my application materials including my letters of recommendation!
- Hey, at least you get to find out what your recommenders are saying about you!
[edit] Utah State
Modern with American specialization
- CAA interview scheduled x2
- Campus visit scheduled 2/28
Strange CAA interview - one member of the committee kept fiddling around and looking at his watch, another questioned the relevance of teaching African-American art in Utah with a very small African-American population. Hello, do you teach French art? Italian art? Are those areas somehow more relevant?
Brilliant. Thank you for that. Maybe someday all areas of art history will be equal....
hmmm, northern Utah . . . perhaps it simply draws people who are a little out of touch with the rest of society . . . as a colleague once said to me when I was worrying about similarly insensitive, patriarchial, euro-centric, heterosexist interview questions, "If they ask it, give them a glib answer, and know that you dont want to be their colleague." Sound advice, I thought.
[edit] U Chicago Postdoc
- CAA interview scheduled (email) 2/5
- Offer made and accepted (4/2)
[edit] Bowdoin College
1 year, visiting in American art
- CAA interview scheduled (email) 2/8
- Rejection received, sometime in March
- Offer made and accepted 4/4
[edit] MODERN
[edit] Auburn University
CAA interview requested 2/16/08
CAA interviews complete.
Has anyone heard from them?
Not yet. I recall that the head of the search committee told me at my interview that they would be "moving quickly" with the next steps. I hope this isn't a bad sign.
It was a bad sign. The committee has completed on-campus interviews and is currently trying to come to an agreement before offering the job to someone. 4/8
[edit] Bradley University
Had an interview at CAA but then nothing since. Anyone heard anything?