A few weeks ago, our JobTracker project took on a tricky question: How long do scholars on the academic job market stay marketable?
You can read our full conclusions here. But here’s the short version: Across the humanities and social-science disciplines we’ve tracked, the largest group of tenure-track hires was made up of scholars who had yet to finish their dissertations. What’s more, in the fields of English literature, history, composition and rhetoric, anthropology, and philosophy, 80 to 90 percent of the jobs in the 2013-14 hiring season went to people who had had their degrees in hand for four years or less.
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