Another factor could be that it’s not easy for schools to evaluate job applicants on merit alone, because merit can be difficult to define or measure. In the tenure system, a professor might work at the same institution for 40 years. But when hiring for tenure-track positions, schools often have to guess about lifelong productivity based on just a f...
Genius | University hiring: If you didn't get your Ph.D. at an elite university, good luck finding an academic job.
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...ework, surely produce great professors, the data suggest that faculty hiring isn’t a simple meritocracy. The top schools generate far more professors than even just slightly less prestigious schools. For example, in history, the top 10 schools produce three times as many future professors as those ranked 11 through 20.
Genius | University hiring: If you didn't get your Ph.D. at an elite university, good luck finding an academic job.
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... all tenure-track faculty in the U.S. and Canada in these three fields. Just 18 elite universities produce half of all computer science professors, 16 schools produce half of all business professors, and eight schools account for half of all history professors.
Genius | University hiring: If you didn't get your Ph.D. at an elite university, good luck finding an academic job.
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...te 1980s, yet another divided city at a time of deep societal, economical, and political unrest. Starring Oscar Isaac, Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Winona Ryder, Clarke Peters, and James Belushi, the project is based on Lisa Belkin’s riveting nonfiction novel of the same name.
David Simon's New Political Thriller For HBO - The Daily Beast
David Simon's New Political Thriller For HBO - The Daily Beast
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In his next project, “Show Me a Hero”—a six-part miniseries for HBO—Simon focuses his lens on Yonkers, New York, in the late 1980s, yet another divided city at a time of deep societal, economical, and political unrest. Starring Oscar Isa...
David Simon's New Political Thriller For HBO - The Daily Beast
David Simon's New Political Thriller For HBO - The Daily Beast
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...themselves, handsomely displayed and clearly explained, speak eloquently of the people who have read and responded to them, many of whom would otherwise be unknown. Marginalia, it seems, are catching. Where will they strike next?
Scrawled Insults and Epiphanies by Anthony Grafton | The Gallery | The New York Review of Books
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...Curiosities and ironies abound. A charming wall panel reproduces a whole series of manicules—from specimens drawn in sixteenth-century margins, to printed pointing hands from nineteenth-century media, to the digital pointing hand that still guides us when we search for an article in JSTOR. Others tell the tales of Mai-mai Sze and the Winthrops. The reader in search of still more information can find it in a different sort of marginal comment: lively blog posts by all three of the curat...
Scrawled Insults and Epiphanies by Anthony Grafton | The Gallery | The New York Review of Books
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Annotation has never ceased to be practiced. But it does change forms and practitioners. In nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, as Andrew Stauffer has shown with his crowd-sourced Book Traces project, which has trawled the stacks of big American libraries and fished up fascinating, forgotten marginalia from circulating collections, women often entered both rich responses and detailed accounts of their own lives into volumes of poetry—especially poetry by other women. The Society Library’s copy of Willa Cather’s April Twilight and Other Poems belonged to her friend Mary Cadwalader Jones, who filled its blank spaces with memories of conversation with Cather. “Once ...
Scrawled Insults and Epiphanies by Anthony Grafton | The Gallery | The New York Review of Books
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...te. No Press Agent to be let near it.” And sometimes—as in the case of an early woman reader who judges the characters in Emma, one by one—they respond to their books in ways that still seem familiar (even if we would record reactions like this on Goodreads, for the world to see, rather than in the pages of a single copy).
Scrawled Insults and Epiphanies by Anthony Grafton | The Gallery | The New York Review of Books
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Marginalia are on the march. The New Yorker reported this fall on Oxford’s Marginalia Group, which “now has two thousand five hundred and three members, making marginalia to Oxford something like what a cappella is to Princeton....
Scrawled Insults and Epiphanies by Anthony Grafton | The Gallery | The New York Review of Books
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