A Snapshot of Academic Job Placements in Linguistics in the US and Canada

Jason D. Haugen, Amy V. Margaris, Sarah E. Calvo
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Most people working in the field of linguistics in the US and Canada have an intuitive sense of who the “major players” are among PhD-granting linguistics departments. Our analysis demonstrates that the frequently-perceived hierarchy of linguistics programs is indeed correct. Drawing on publicly available information from Winter/Spring, 2019 on faculty at all PhD-granting linguistics programs across the US and Canada, we use social network and heat map visualizations to demonstrate the existence of an extraordinarily strong and relatively stable hierarchy of programs whose graduates dominate the linguistics academic job market. A secondary finding is that many of the top programs are characterized by gender imbalances. We argue that the top programs’ tremendous influence on the job market as a whole affords these programs the ability – indeed, the responsibility – to take the lead in effecting positive change in the field's hiring patterns more broadly.
美国和加拿大语言学领域的学术工作岗位概况
在美国和加拿大,大多数语言学领域的从业人员都能直观地感觉到,在授予博士学位的语言学系中,谁是 "主要参与者"。我们的分析表明,人们通常认为的语言学项目的等级制度确实是正确的。根据 2019 年冬/春期间美国和加拿大所有授予博士学位的语言学专业教师的公开信息,我们利用社交网络和热图可视化技术,证明了存在一个异常强大且相对稳定的专业等级体系,其毕业生主导着语言学学术就业市场。另一个发现是,许多顶尖项目都存在性别失衡的问题。我们认为,顶尖项目对整个就业市场的巨大影响力使这些项目有能力--实际上是有责任--在更广泛的领域内率先对招聘模式进行积极改革。
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