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“Last year was pretty bad, from what I know,” says Steven P. Rozenski, a graduate student interested in medieval religious literature. “I’m glad I have a couple of years to go, though.”
Nathanael Andrade—who specializes in ancient history—is one of the eight current college fellows who received a tenure-track position for next year. Andrade, who will work at West Virginia University in the fall, says that his time as a fellow this past year made...
According to William Pannapacker, a Harvard English graduate student in the 1990s and a contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Education, one year of success is not enough evidence to ignore the gravity of the “academic labor market.”
In fact, the full effect of the economic crisis on academia has yet to be seen: it could either rebound or the decline in traditional academic jobs may continue and never recover, he says.
He adds that he hopes his alma mater will prepare its graduate students for the opportunities that will exist in the future rather than continuing to fixate on “familiar positions” that will probably decline than in the coming decades.