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Welcome to 2008-2009!

(2007-2008 is located here: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/American_Studies_2007-2008)

PLEASE UPDATE MANUALLY when you add something: last update October 28, 2008

AMERICAN STUDIES 2008-2009
Please add the date you edit (ex. interview offered 10/15) and mark a new speaker with an asterisk. Will keep everything readable!! Thanks!

California Institute of the Arts 
 * Assistant Professor in American Studies
 * Women/Gender, U.S. History, Social and Cultural History, Religious Studies ,Policy and Political History, and Economics
 * Applications - December 15, 2008

George Washington University 
 * Assistant Professor in American Studies and Women's Studies
 * Focus on the U.S. or on a transnational arena that includes the U.S., feminist theory, gender theory, sexuality, cultural studies, media studies, migration studies, diaspora, or urban studies
 * Applications - December 1, 2008

Middlebury College 
 * Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in American Studies
 * Specialties - Include, but are not limited to, Asian American Studies, African American Studies, Latino/a studies, discourses of race in the Americas, or race in the colonial or Republican period
 * Applications - December 1, 2008

Penn State Harrisburg 

Position 1
 * Specialties - Public heritage, which may include heritage and museum studies, historic preservation and cultural resource management, archives, and oral history

Position 2
 * Specialties - American Studies in international, comparative perspective; ethnic, religious, urban, and immigration studies; ethnography and folk/performance studies; and social science


 * Applications - Review begins October 1, 2008
 * Rec'd ack. via snail mail and link to EEO form (for position 1) (10/10)
 * Phone interviews scheduled (10/29)

Oklahoma State University - Stillwater 
 * Assistant Professor of American Studies
 * Open field
 * Applications - December 1, 2008

Ramapo College

Saint Louis University 
 * Assistant or Associate Professor of American Studies
 * Specialties - 20th Century Urban Cultural and Social Studies
 * Applications - October 10, 2008
 * Status
 * Anyone heard anything? They are supposed to be interviewing at ASA.
 * Received acknowledgment of application (10/09/2008). Scheduled ASA interview (10/10/2008).
 * Waiting to hear about campus visits, etc.
 * At least three candidates scheduled for (or completed) campus interviews.
 * When did they notify finalists? (Are you one of them?:))
 * Heard from a friend in St. Louis. (11/17)
 * Thanks. Appreciate the info.  Tell your friend to get onto the wiki and help out. (11/17)

University of Alabama 
 * Assistant Professor of American Studies
 * Specialties - Southern Culture, Gender and Race
 * Application- Review begins on December 15, but continues until filled

University of Alabama 
 * Assistant Professor of American Studies
 * Specialties - American Music
 * Application- Review begins on December 15, but continues until filled

UMass Boston 
 * Assistant Professor of American Studies
 * Specialties - Early 20th Century Culture and Literature
 * Applications - Review will begin January 20, 2009

University of Texas - Austin 
 * Assistant Professor The Center for Asian American Studies and Department of American Studies
 * Specialties - Critical Race Studies and Law
 * Applications - November 1, 2008

University of Wyoming
 * Assistant Professor of American Studies and African American Studies
 * Applications - October 1, 2008
 * interviewing at ASA
 * Status
 * received acknowledgment of application on 10/5/08 (posted 10/10/08)
 * ASA interview scheduled (10/9)


 * Phone interview on 11/7

Wesleyan University 
 * Assistant Professor American Studies Program and the Department of English
 * Specialties - Transnational Asian American Studies
 * Applications - October 1, 2008

Discussion

 * Is anyone actually checking or updating this page? I feel like I might be the only one. (10/27)
 * Yes, I'm checking too! Just added GWU and OK State. (10/28)
 * Thanks for responding although it doesn't look like we have too much info to share!
 * I check also!
 * Me too. You're not alone!
 * So, do we have any inside info? That is, somebody must be a grad student or know somebody at some of these places.  Sorry if that sounded pissy.  Just want to hear some kind of news.
 * I don't have any inside info. However, I do wonder if the U Mass Boston search is going forward- I know that U Mass Amherst has a hiring freeze, and that in some fields, searches were cancelled. Does anyone know anything about the position? Thanks.
 * The Amherst search is going forward despite the budget situation according to the 20th century history board. Someone said they called the dept. and specifically asked whether the search was suspended.  I don't think we will know about anything definite about most of the state institutions for a while.
 * Anyone know anything about Saint Louis? Anybody apply for it?
 * I haven't heard anything from SLU except for a letter of acknowledgement. Seems they did interviews at ASA. Does anyone know what their timeline is?
 * No word on a timeline although they had an early deadline so it would seem sooner as opposed to later.
 * Does anyone know what happened to the SLU job last year and why they had to redo this search? (11/11)
 * What was the job last year? Not urban studies, I assume. (11/11)
 * It was urban studies - - almost exactly, if not exactly, the same job ad. (11/11)
 * According to last year's wiki, the job was offered to someone and then nothing happened. Joe Heathcott had the job but moved on to the New School.  Maybe they were trying to get a more senior person last year and failed?
 * Any SLU grads know anything?