AnthroScopic
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AnthroScopic got a reaction from Waltzfordebby in Fall 2019 Applicants
If you are interested in hiring practices in anthropology consult these recent publications:
Market share and recent hiring trends in anthropology faculty positions (2018)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202528#pone-0202528-g001
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The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13158
Below, sociocultural placement data:
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AnthroScopic reacted to G_speed in Choosing a school
First of all, congrats on the acceptances!
Generally, I would say that you couldn't really go wrong with any of those choices, though of course research overlap is an important factor, and that's something you'll want to figure out just by digging deeper into the specific work being put out by your potential committee members. Without considering your situation in that regard, though, I would go with Stanford. Personally, I think Tanya Luhrmann is one of the best in the business, and it would be massively cool to work with her. You'd also be in good hands med anth-wise with Angela Garcia. I am not very familiar with the med anth folks at UofT and Chicago (though you might want to check out faculty in Chicago's Comparative Human Develoment program, with whom you could potentially work). The Bay Area, while expensive, is generally a really pleasant place to be, so quality of life wouldn't be a problem (I am a Californian, and have reservations of relocating to a bitterly cold part of the continent - a decision that I myself may have to consider). Good luck with your decision!
And while I'm here, I'll throw out a question of my own to the thread: how dissuaded should I be by a program/university that is not very well-represented at all in terms of work being done in my geographic target area? A potential university is -really- strong when it comes to one of my main research areas, but not country-specific scholarship in the place where I would likely be carrying out fieldwork. I am open to potentially pivoting to another country, but this still is a little concerning. What do people think?
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AnthroScopic got a reaction from kandai in Fall 2019 Applicants
It's all good. They said between one and two weeks for me, most likely two-ish. So I think there's still time.
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AnthroScopic got a reaction from charliekkk in Fall 2019 Applicants
No, they posted late. They were interviewed on January 31st.
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AnthroScopic got a reaction from Psyhopeful in Fall 2019 Applicants
If you are interested in hiring practices in anthropology consult these recent publications:
Market share and recent hiring trends in anthropology faculty positions (2018)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202528#pone-0202528-g001
or
The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13158
Below, sociocultural placement data:
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AnthroScopic got a reaction from socio1251 in Fall 2019 Applicants
If you are interested in hiring practices in anthropology consult these recent publications:
Market share and recent hiring trends in anthropology faculty positions (2018)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202528#pone-0202528-g001
or
The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13158
Below, sociocultural placement data:
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AnthroScopic reacted to transrelativity in WTF Do Interviews Mean?
This is just a post to say that upon first read, I thought @HealthyAnthro had an interview with Kingdom Hearts.
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AnthroScopic got a reaction from LetsGetThisBread in WTF Do Interviews Mean?
I got a Knight-Hennessy interview invite, so I'm just assuming that I'm going to be invited to interview by Stanford, but I haven't received formal invite yet from the department of anthropology.
Good luck to you in the programs synthema!
Too bad about the HASTS interviews though (at least for me).
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AnthroScopic reacted to Psyhopeful in WTF Do Interviews Mean?
I'm not sure why you're accusing @healthyanthro as a spammer? There appears to be five people that got interviews for HASTS from January 22-24 last year and the year before. I don't see anything questionable about their post. (Also, perhaps you are just feeling the stress of application season, but healthyanthro did not even appear to be "disagreeing" with you, instead they were doing what you asked and informing you of another school who has sent out invites.) Just because it's their first post to the forum doesn't mean they're a spammer. Everyone has a first post sometime , and this post about HASTS interviews appears entirely legitimate. In addition, @synthema also knows someone who received an invite.
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AnthroScopic reacted to perpetualalligator in WTF Do Interviews Mean?
In a futile attempt to reduce anxiety and speculation a few people thought it would be useful to create a thread where we (present and future Anthro applicants) list schools that interview as part of the application process. As some of you might have figured out, programs do interview for many different reasons: some do it as part of the selection process (which means that if you do not get an interview request, you might as well expect a rejection), others just use it as a way to get to know the applicant either because they're kind of on the fence about them or they are just so impressed by them that professors think that if they reach out early in the process the applicant will be more likely to choose them, or many other reasons I haven't mentioned here. Anyways sometimes it is not the end of the world if you do not get an interview. Feel free to use this space to talk about (Anthro) interviews, share experiences you've had interviewing at different schools, and any information what is the purpose of the specific interviews.
With that said, if you do not get an interview request from these schools you have (probably*) been rejected:
WUSTL (Washington University in St. Louis)
UC Berkeley
UVA (University of Virginia)
Notre Dame
Duke
Harvard (?)
Johns Hopkins
NYU (intermittently)
UPenn
Yale (?)
*This list is not exhaustive, add schools that are not included and this is not definitive. Sometimes admissions policies change or it depends on the discipline.