American Emotions and Reverse Culture Shock
On contradictory instructions regarding academic job applications
Last year I started applying to academic jobs. One of my best friends, a fellow historian, had recommended a job to me, saying I’d be perfect. I applied on a Friday. I was rejected the next Monday.
A little surprised at the quick turnaround (especially for an academic job), I wrote the professor in charge of the committee to ask what I had done wrong to…