Philosophy Job Market Report for January-June 2024
How was the academic philosophy job market during last season’s “secondary cycle”? Charles Lassiter (Gonzaga University) has again kindly gathered data about the philosophy job market and reports on his findings for January through June of this year and some trends over the past several years. (A version of this post first appeared at his site.) – The Philosophy Job Market: Secondary Job Cycle, January – June 2024 by Charles Lassiter Greetings! As the fall term gets underway, it’s a good time to take a look back at the job market: job ads from January-June of 2024 in particular. As a reminder, I break the application cycles into primary (July-December) and secondary (January-June). We’ll look at the numbers for the secondary cycle of 2024 and then put them in wider context. You can find the dataset and code under “Blog Data.” Here’s the big picture: Junior faculty leads (206), followed by postdocs (108), and visiting positions (55). Now we’ll take a look at contract types. There are far more fixed-term positions offered than tenure/tenure-track, which is standard for this cycle. Onto the intersection of contract types for junior and postdoc openings: Now that we’ve seen what’s going on now, let’s add some historical context. On the upside, there’s been an overall increase in the number of jobs advertised over the last decade with the exception of open contracts. Open contracts have decreased slightly over time. For fixed-term positions, the last two cycles have seen a cooling-down after a post-COVID bump. But how do junior and senior faculty fare in all this? Let’s look at junior and postdocs first. What’s interesting about this is that fixed-term positions for both junior faculty and postdocs have been increasing over the last 10 years, but openings for postdocs have had greater increases relative to fixed-term junior positions. What could account for this? One possibility is that more philosophers are winning grants, so the demand for postdocs is increasing. Another is that departments are getting specially-allocated funds for postdocs from private foundations or donors. I don’t really know but those seem like plausible guesses. Independently of the causes, the increase in postdoc demand is a double-edged sword. On one side, freshly-minted PhDs can have some..
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