... candidate valuation —this article poses an argument in favor of structural changes to the hiring process that would democratize faculty bodies at so-called top US institutions as well as throughout the academy. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 faculty hiring academic inequality institutional affiliation...

... 8 Apr. 2005 : B20 . Bonilla-Silva Eduardo . Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States . Lanham : Rowman , 2003 . Burke Timothy . “The Obligations of Academic Freedom.” minnesota review ns 67 ( Fall 2006...

..., Geography, and Ecology .” In The Academic Profession: The Professoriate in Crisis , edited by Altbach Philip G. Finkelstein Martin J. , 342 – 65 . New York : Garland Publishing . Mullen Ann L. 2010 . Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education...

... studies pays far more attention to the formative influence of class, as well as to ongoing inequalities of income, education, and power. The relation of working-class studies and multiculturalism is dialectical, borrowing from the latter its interest in power and social...

... is not without its adversaries. Opponents of privatization see free trade less as the liberation of and by the market and more as a reorganization of class relations where low wages and high inequality is the norm. What’s more, the neoconservative agenda seems less orientated to spreading democracy...

... dramatic, if you think about how much inequality has increased in the last ten or fif- teen years. It’s shocking. Watson  Is the Tea Party a party? Is it organized? Dean  That’s really interesting. I haven’t looked at the Tea Party in an academic way; I have no expertise here, but I’ll still...

... accelerated during the 1970s, when I moved through graduate school. The academic job market collapsed. Whereas I had listened to my professors’ stories of getting jobs ABD in the 1960s by selecting first the area of the country where they wanted to settle, I and those in my...

... than 1,300 Institutions . 18 Apr. 2008 . < http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i32/32a02001.htm >. Harvey David . Conditions of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change . Cambridge, MA : Blackwell , 1989 . Keller George . Academic Strategy...

... from graduate programs into academic positions in the profession has not materialized (2). It is crucial for progressive scholars to familiarize ourselves with such statistics and the inequity they represent. It is equally important for us to think about what these statistics mean from...

.... While some scholars, like those of the subaltern studies group, felt that one way to address the Left crisis caused by these changes was to look at how the subaltern had been represented and how tech- nologies of academic knowledge had produced the very inequities they purported to address...

.... The academy is not the only location many of us occupy, and we all straddle a variety of zones of relative vulnerability and security. But this does not mean that we are not advantaged by the more flexible relation to productivity that academic life allows its workers. It made me anxious...

... Negri or Trenkle, what makes his arguments not only similar to theirs but also “easily recuperable within academic discourses” that are not even ostensibly hostile to capitalism (Callinicos 2008, 93) is his dematerialized dialectic that turns objective contradictions into spiri- tual oppositions...

... dismissal, what are the specific indictments? What are the central problems that you see in academic culture? Anderson As I say in the introduction, the book could have been called The Way We Fail to Argue Now. The book tries to advance and defend a robust...

..., and then during the 1990s it swept back through as gender and sexuality studies, and finally, in the current decade, academic feminism is sweeping through political sci- ence departments. I’m thinking of Wendy Brown, Nancy Love, Kathi Weeks, and the group featured in this issue —​you, Jacqueline Stevens...

... fewer of them, since Tulane University shuttered graduate programs in the wake of the storm. Attending to graduate students’ plights attracts no sympathy; the postcrisis advice from grounded academics has been both simplistic and simple. They urge us to “Just Don’t Go,” in a rhetorical move...

... tradition; third, its humanist belief in a unified or autonomous "selP' (albeit conceived in the form of a proletarian "class and, finally, traditional Marxism's inability to come to terms with "the autonomy of the disciplines" (17), which is evident in both contemporary academic discourse and socio...

... vocabularies-political, medical, therapeutic, philosophical, and aesthetic-whose underlying tenets are often strikingly at odds. Moreover, female masochism is not just an academic topic but a subject attracting ^ever more attention in the media. Rock stars such as Madonna have popularized...

... in composition. But, initially trained as a Victorianist, he has stressed composition’s link with literature rather than its separation, and resisted trends toward “writing without teachers” or without academic models. Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching (Bedford...

... to both academic and general audiences. A member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review [NLR], he writes regularly for the Guardian, Counter Punch, and the London Review of Books. The World Today with Tariq Ali is a weekly interview, culture, and politi- cal review show (also available...

... man- agement to guide the city’s recovery effectively. These perceptions were further intensified by the debacle of the city’s official “recovery czar,” planner and academic Ed Blakely, appointed in 2007 at the end of the first wave of citywide “consulta- tive” planning spectacles. Blakely...