Does anyone have an update on the New School position ?
Theory Job Info 2022-2023
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There is good reason to apply and hope you get the offer: it signals something to those that value historical contextualism (Pitts and others): the Cambridge stamp of approval. She will not take the job, for sure, but if she is offered it no one can question what a lot of people now question: the historical rigor of her book. The work is shot through with a painful presentism that makes anyone, not on her dissertation committee, worried about the seriousness of the scholarship.
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There is good reason to apply and hope you get the offer: it signals something to those that value historical contextualism (Pitts and others): the Cambridge stamp of approval. She will not take the job, for sure, but if she is offered it no one can question what a lot of people now question: the historical rigor of her book. The work is shot through with a painful presentism that makes anyone, not on her dissertation committee, worried about the seriousness of the scholarship.
Except this assumes the hire will be made on merit, rather than identity characteristics. Given the noises coming out of the dept, this would be a very poor assumption to make. The men on this SL might as well not even show up.
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Odd indeed not to see two outstanding male white candidates there: MS (Cambridge) and AL (Cambridge). This explains why.
And yes it will obviously go to a woman as there aren’t female theorists in that dept in Cambridge.
I know several men who didn’t apply for this reason!