I've sent off 93 applications, and I could end up with everything I want or no job at all. Here I enter the week when I'll be hoping places call me. I'll feel my cell phone vibrating, and excitedly open it, and see nothing, and realize that it was just sliding a little against the inside of my pants pocket as I shifted position. And that'll be the ninth time it's happened that day.
But getting a 'revise and resubmit' from Philosophical Review -- one of the two best journals in the business -- on the paper that's at the core of my dissertation makes me feel rock solid.
I don't know where the world is taking me, but I know I'm strong.
Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com
My other blogs
I've blogged in many different places. Here are some of them:
I'm very proud of War or Car, where I posted a new thing you could buy for the price of the Iraq War everyday, for 121 days. This was during the 2008 elections, and I was glad that the antiwar candidate won. The site got its name because you could buy every American household a Toyota Prius for the $3 trillion price of the war. Or you could buy the Irish their annual beer intake, in Guinness, for a millennium. Or you could buy all the world's pandas their own personal stealth bombers!
Probably my greatest era of internet awesomeness was guestblogging for Ezra Klein long before he achieved his current superstardom at Vox. My posts there are pretty scattered, so they'll be hard to find. My work for Ezra catapulted me into other opportunities like filling in for Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly. After that from 2008 to 2015, my friend Nick Beaudrot and I wrote a blog called Donkeylicious. As the name suggests, it was largely about Democratic politics.
During the 2012 elections, I created a little blog called VoteSeeing that tabulated election predictions and graded predictors on how well they did. The folks at Daily Kos Elections won the prediction contest, with Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight a close second. Shortly afterward, a group of philosophers at a blog called NewAPPS got me to put up a few posts for them.
This post at the Philosophers' Cocoon has more about my job at the National University of Singapore, where I'm a philosophy professor.
8 comments:
Best of luck, Neil. Knock 'em dead.
I'm still rooting for New Zealand, so I have an excuse to visit.
You might want to consider e-mailing the heads of the committees where you've applied to let them know of the R&R. It's not an acceptance, but it's good enough (given the journal) that it might help make you look good when they're deciding their APA interviews.
I've been thinking about that, anonymous! And asking a lot of faculty I know about whether to do it.
So far there's a bit of a tilt against sending out updates about the R&R. But I am sending updates to any university that sends me something saying, 'we've received your application, let us know of any new developments.'
Does lack of posting indicate your application was successful and they've been working you to death already?
I'm sure you'll get something. Your job talk here at bowling green was pretty good I thought. Anyway it has to be a good sign getting an interview the year previously.
Off-topic somewhat but congratulations on the very nice review of your nietzsche volume today in the NDPR.
Thanks a bunch, Matt! I liked the review.
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