Sekhon leaving academia?
Berkeley bleeding
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I was talking about lenz, schickler, and gailmard. I didnt think sekhon and bussel are americanists.
My guess is Berkeley will be able to replace them without too much trouble. They might even -- gasp -- be able to hire a woman or POC.
sekhon -> finance
shickler + lenz -> princeton
gailmard -> michigan
bussell -> penn
For American the big losses would be Schickler and Lenz. And they would be very big. Gailmard’s work is more interesting than Lenz’s but also more on the fringe of AP, especially his recent work on colonial politics.Sekhon is a person of color. Bussell is a woman.
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Only conceivable explanation.
If Bussell is going to Penn, is Dunning also going?dunning had talk at penn a couple of weeks ago. i do not think it will be easy for them to retire. they will be left with non-quants and their grad students will struggle for years to catch-up
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I have a hard time seeing them leaving Berkeley. But its a smart move to look at alternative options and potential outside offers before JB receives tenure.
Wealth accumulation and cost of living in the Bay Area is ridiculous and its hard for anybody working at Berkeley to keep pace unless they were grandfathered into the housing market. The average full professor salary at UCB is around 180K per Chronicle data (from 2016). The median Facebook employee makes 240K.
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East Bay is cheaper than South Bay though
I have a hard time seeing them leaving Berkeley. But its a smart move to look at alternative options and potential outside offers before JB receives tenure.
Wealth accumulation and cost of living in the Bay Area is ridiculous and its hard for anybody working at Berkeley to keep pace unless they were grandfathered into the housing market. The average full professor salary at UCB is around 180K per Chronicle data (from 2016). The median Facebook employee makes 240K.