The Changing Job Market in Academic Archaeology: Analysis of a Decade of Data from the Archaeology Academic Jobs Wiki

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Tenure-track employment is a highly sought-after career path for many graduate students. Recent surveys have helped to document the supply of applicants in terms of the numbers of graduates per year and per institution. However the demand for applicants for tenure-track jobs has not been studied in detail. We examine the text of advertisements for tenure-track jobs to get insights into the archaeology academic job market. Using data from the community-edited Archaeology Academic Jobs Wiki, we explore changes in the academic job market over time. We examine the numbers of positions advertised per year, and the ratio of tenure-track to untenured positions. We analyze job titles and descriptions to identify trends in topics and methods. We investigate the complexity of the advertisements and instructions to applicants to see how the details of the application have changed over time.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39234.0