The Real Deal with Job Search Committees
Academic Aunties
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The Kitchen Sink Nature of Job Postings
There's a lot that happens behind the scenes in terms of who's going to serve on the committee. The final arbiter of what that ad looks like is often just one person or a couple of people who have the sign off on it. Somebody may feel, for example, that we really need to hire an indigenous scholar, and it doesn't end up being reflected in the ad. And so those trade offs actually matter because when an aditious scholar is looking at the job ad, do they see themselves in that ad? They may not, because it hasn't been appropriately foregrounded.
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