Five-Year Study on Hiring Trends in Gender, Women's, and Feminist Studies

Musial, Jennifer; Holmes, Christina

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“…Women's Studies in the United States first emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and since then has evolved and diversified into a number of critical branches of tertiary education and research, such as Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Transgender and Queer Studies, etc. A study published in 2018 documented an increasingly growing field with as many as twenty-five free standing PhD programs in GWFS between the United States and Canada and growing fulltime faculty in as many as 336 departments (Musial and Holmes 2018). In the initial years of its institutionalization, GWFS was considered to be the academic arm of the women's movement and hence stood out as quite radical, given that at the time, "merely to assert that woman should be studied was a radical act" (Ginsberg 2008, 1).…”

Section: Contours Of Complicity: Co-opting Diversity Research and Fac...mentioning

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Non-immigrant Precarity and the Corporate University: Rethinking Limitations of Critical Research and Reimagining Decolonial Possibilities

Chatterjee¹

2022

Feminist Formations

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This paper explores the various ways in which organizational structures of the corporate university are imbricated in racial hierarchies underlying global immigration, with particular reference to non-immigrant precarity in US academia. Moving beyond critiques focused on curriculum and pedagogy, I argue that as an epitomizing product of capitalism, the corporate university must be dismantled to decenter global knowledge creation itself. We must view the generation of critical social science research in context of interactions between the colonizing structure of global immigration laws and Global North's academic institutional hierarchies. The paper begins by theoretically framing corporate university, its co-option of diversity and equality as the cornerstone of contemporary neoliberalism and its entanglements with contemporary immigration regimes such that it emerges as a site for non-immigrant precarity. I then discuss how seemingly critical fields of inquiry such as academic feminism are institutionally arranged within corporate universities to sustain racialized precarity for non-immigrants in academia, through hiring, research, and pedagogical practices. I conclude by drawing on two grassroots education models in India as means for (re)imagining decolonial possibilities with subversive philosophies of education and spatial alternatives, which are crucial for feminist research to be meaningful.

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Non-immigrant Precarity and the Corporate University: Rethinking Limitations of Critical Research and Reimagining Decolonial Possibilities

Chatterjee¹

2022

Feminist Formations

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“…Limited opportunities and low pay create a market where competition is fierce for the few lucrative academic career paths available. Fields such as history [ 1 , 2 ], women’s studies [ 3 ], English [ 4 ], and anthropology [ 5 , 6 ] all report serious disparities between the number of graduates and the number of academic jobs. The availability of academic positions at US institutions is particularly bleak.…”

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Beyond market share: Accounting for doctoral program size in recent rates of anthropology faculty job placement

Mackie

Rockwell

2023

PLoS ONE

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Job placement trends in higher education at US institutions are bleak. Within anthropology and other social science disciplines this problem appears to be particularly pronounced. Recent studies focusing on placement in Anthropology using market share analysis have suggested that specific doctoral programs offer a greater chance of placing their graduates in faculty positions. Here we expand on that work, looking beyond market share to the number of graduates placed in positions relative to the total number of program graduates. Our results suggest that while large programs do indeed command the majority of tenure track placements by market share, much of this may be a product of the high numbers of graduates from these programs. Smaller programs can be proportionally as successful at placing their students in tenure track positions. The majority of PhDs in anthropology should anticipate gaining employment outside of a tenure track position. Training students for positions in private industry, government, and other non-faculty opportunities is essential.

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Ph.D. Pathways to the Professoriate: Affordances and Constraints of Institutional Structures, Individual Agency, and Social Systems

Feldon

Wofford

Blaney

2022

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

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Five-Year Study on Hiring Trends in Gender, Women's, and Feminist Studies

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Non-immigrant Precarity and the Corporate University: Rethinking Limitations of Critical Research and Reimagining Decolonial Possibilities

Non-immigrant Precarity and the Corporate University: Rethinking Limitations of Critical Research and Reimagining Decolonial Possibilities

Beyond market share: Accounting for doctoral program size in recent rates of anthropology faculty job placement

Ph.D. Pathways to the Professoriate: Affordances and Constraints of Institutional Structures, Individual Agency, and Social Systems

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