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What subfield? Taken any people from the SBC seminaries in recent years?

I would add that http://www.ats.edu/uploads/resources/publications-presentations/documents/tenure-and-other-faculty-facts-part-2.pdf is still a good general view into the world of placement. It goes without saying that many of these statistics are the products of certain hiring trends (i.e. Baptists hire mostly other Baptists and UK alumni).

I just got the 2015-6 SBL job report. Here are their key findings for those not members: Key Findings · Positions advertised in AY16 declined 10.2% compared to AY15. · The discrete number of institutions posting a job in a given year declined each of the past five years from 311 in AY11 to 248 in AY16, a decline of 20.1%. · Research institutions have been the most stable, while baccalaureate institutions have seen the greatest declines. · Fewer than 300 faculty jobs were posted, the lowest number of faculty positions since AY02. · Course loads, in contrast to AY15, declined markedly. · The percentage of employers requiring or desiring interdisciplinary teaching or research abilities declined significantly. · Publishing a journal article and publishing a book/monograph are now more important than interdisciplinary teaching or research abilities. · Online course instruction experience continues to rise, up from 10.4% last year to 13.0% this year.

I think Baylor has already extended invitations for NT and HB for their interview weekend. You could be placed on a waitlist. I would add that they rarely take Baptists into their biblical studies PhD. They tend to draw from moderate pools avoiding conservative and liberal bastions. People from the ivy leagues routinely apply but are nearly immediately shut out. Same goes for those from SEBTS, SBTS, SWBTS, etc. Myopic, I know, but every program is entitled to create the culture they see as most ideal for learning. As for SMU, they don't take traditional NT. They have an application, but Chancy has moved on from Galilee and has focused mostly on religion and public life in America. The last PhD student in NT they had was a couple years back and worked on fertility and infertility in the NT. She went on to the pastorate after not landing a professorship. Chapel Hill has already done interviews and unless something happens, I wouldn't expect a nod from them. They are also big on auxiliary languages, especially Coptic, which is not normally taught at non-research institution or seminaries. Emory, like Baylor, has already dispatched interview requests for next weekend (02/03). Again, a waitlist is still possible here and Emory continues to pull from that list far into the process. As for Fuller, Asbury, and Trinity I couldn't say. I would hasten that the financial aid packages at Fuller and Trinity are not large enough to make doctoral work bearable. A part time job would be necessary throughout. My advice, just my advice. If you have some GI bill money, do UK. They are far more relaxed about your religious background (i.e. they don't assume you can't do solid critical work based on modern theories and methods just because you are from a Baptist University/seminary). I say UK because it works for evangelicals and Baptists as far as employment at a Baptist seminary (which are among the largest seminaries in the world) or Baptist liberal arts (of which there are many). UK doesn't work for liberals or moderates. The Ivy League schools, moderate institutions, and Catholic schools aren't routinely pulling from the UK. Also, the Baptist route is a good path if you are still in fact Baptist. I know that many Baptist seminaries have exceptional placement records for their PhDs. Contact the respective heads of doctoral programs at SBC seminaries to get the data from them. It is also important to keep in mind that Baptist schools like Union, DBU, OBU, Ouachita, etc. don't normally post openings on HigherEd etc. Employment in these schools is word of mouth: i.e. Union is looking for a NT guy, they call contacts at the major seminaries to get a listing of potential candidates. So, staying on at your university/seminary or diversifying by going to another Baptist university/seminary can be advantageous. However, all of this is moot if you are wanting to teach at a state school or a more traditional private research institute. Just know that that world is hard to penetrate and like east of Eden is barren job-wise. I may get lambasted for this, but I'll say it anyhow: it pays to be Catholic or Baptist. That doesn't mean there aren't examples of the unemployed Catholic or Baptist PhD, but it is to stress that these two groups command a chunk of jobs in religious studies that routinely exclude outside candidates.

The interviews were for Mediterranean religions. The interviews are a new part of the process for that subfield, but I don't think that the other areas necessarily held their own interviews. Results should be out soon enough, however, since they normally fly their admitted candidates to campus in very early February.

I noticed an invitation to Emory's interview went out for Asian religions. No word on other fields, though. Either they haven't gone out yet and are set to be released Monday or they already, like Asian religions, gone out and people are not positing anything. I'm very disappointed in gradcafe's usefulness this year. Are people not aware of the results feature to post their progress? Is there a better website out there now? Is there some overarching fear that admission committees will decipher who is posting what (despite the anonymity of the results page) and deal out punishment? It is such an unusually quiet year on here.

I assume that applies to Hebrew Bible too. Oh well, here's to hoping for a waitlist.

That's a tough break, but it sounds like Villanova has some class when it comes to notifying applicants of their status I saw that someone posted Baylor for church history. Do you all think that is it for Baylor? Seems odd to only get one interview submission on here. I'm wondering if gradcafe has lost a bit of its magic this year with fewer people uploading results or if there's more to come (perhaps by department?). I only applied to Duke, Emory, and Baylor so here's to hoping I didn't get the first strike.

Thanks for the data and the link. The comparison between 2001 and 2015 is interesting. That's a huge jump for Toronto, SBTS, and Fuller. But as Kuriakos said, the baptist programs, DTS, and Fuller have hundreds of PhD students between them. The numbers are probably also skewed by the fact that the baptist programs tend to hire their own. A cursory look through their faculty pages reveals a high percentage of baptist PhDs. Not to knock it--I get it, they want to ensure the success of their own and want to uphold a certain culture--but their graduates are likely not as spread out across programs like many others on the list.