They are wasting the time of the hundreds of people who apply though. And what makes pedigree "appropriate"?
Oxford job
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Cambridge recently hired LM for their tenure track in international relations and he did his PhD at University of Minnesota. Speaking of Oxbridge and Yale as the required pedigree...
Must have been a compensatory hire as AR (Minnesota PhD) who died of cancer a few years ago.
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^ What? So because Cambridge have hired people with Minnesota PhDs (as well as others with PhDs from Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, LSE, Oxford, Wisconsin, Cornell, etc.) that is evidence of nepotism? Uh huh.
Yeah. Kassy seems unclear on what "nepotistic" actually means.
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What I'd really be interested to know is just how many apps they received for the opening. 500? Over/under?
I’ll take the under. The specific specialization of 20th-century, non-analytic theory will eliminate a bunch. I’ll go with 300. It’ll still be a huge number. And almost certainly go to someone from HYP or Oxbridge.
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What I'd really be interested to know is just how many apps they received for the opening. 500? Over/under?
I’ll take the under. The specific specialization of 20th-century, non-analytic theory will eliminate a bunch. I’ll go with 300. It’ll still be a huge number. And almost certainly go to someone from HYP or Oxbridge.
And, given these hiring patterns, when is the last time that something interesting came out of Oxbridge? Skinner? Geuss? D Bell maybe?