Matthew Karp, a history professor at Princeton, wrote an interesting thread on what has happened to his academic discipline over the past few years.
Interesting and unsurprisingly very troubling.
History Departments are no longer interested in teaching history per se but the history of ethnic groups. This is revealed in the job postings from history departments.
Overall postings in US history dropped from an average of 156 t-t jobs per year to an average of under 99. Even leaving out the Covid drop in 2020, the average over the last two years is 115.5. That’s a substantial and possibly crippling decline, as @dbessner & others have noted.
— Matt Karp 🌹🦏🇺🇸 (@karpmj) January 18, 2023
The change in focus is quite striking. In only a decade, job postings focused on historical periods and American history have plummeted in number, but postings focused on ethnicity studies…
