Where are the Assistant Professors of 1996-97?
Cleaning up my office, I came across faculty lists for the top ten-ish departments of 1996-97. I thought it might be interesting to look at where those on tenure-track that year at the top departments are twelve years later. Please e-mail me corrections. It's striking how many got tenure, even at these highly competitive departments--and note that many who are now teaching elsewhere did get tenure, but then left, while still others left before a tenure decision (for personal and/or professional reasons).
The tenure-track faculty of 1996-97 are listed by the school where they were teaching then. Affiliations are for 2008-09.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Sarah Buss (PhD, Yale) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Elijah Millgram (PhD, Harvard) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah.
Gideon Rosen (PhD, Princeton) is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
Gopal Sreenivasan (PhD, Berkeley) is Professor of Philosophy and Medical Ethics at Duke University.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
John Gibbons (PhD, Brown) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Sigrun Svavavrsdottir (PhD, Michigan) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK
Ruth Chang (DPhil, Oxford) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR
Stephen Everson (PhD, London) is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.
Jim Joyce (PhD, Michigan) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Eric Lormand (PhD, MIT) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Ian Rumfitt (DPhil, Oxford) is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
James Conant (PhD, Harvard) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Stephen Engstrom (PhD, Chicago) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.
Laura Ruetsche (PhD, Pittsburgh) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Jamie Tappenden (PhD, Princeton) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Michael Thompson (PhD, UCLA) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Richard Heck, Jr. (PhD, MIT) is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University
Jim Pryor (PhD, Princeton) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at New York University
Alison Simmons (PhD, Penn) is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
David Gill (PhD, Arizona) appears to be out of philosophy.
Martin Jones (PhD, Stanford) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oberlin College.
Paolo Mancosu (PhD, Stanford) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Daniel Warren (PhD, Harvard) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Karen Jones (PhD, Cornell) is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.
Jason Stanley (PhD, MIT) is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Zoltan Szabo (PhD, MIT) is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University
MASSACHUSSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Alex Byrne (PhD, Princeton) is Professor of Philosophy at MIT.
Ned Hall (PhD, Princeton) is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
Ralph Wedgwood (PhD, Cornell) is Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Arthur Flemming (PhD, UCLA) appears to be out of philosophy.
Andrew Hsu (PhD, UCLA) is Lecturer in Philosophy at UCLA.
Marc Lange (PhD, Pittsburgh) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Michael Otsuka (DPhil, Oxford) is Professor of Philosophy at University College London (presently weighing a senior offer from Pittsburgh)
Seana Shiffrin (DPhil, Oxford) is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law at UCLA.
Michael Thau (PhD, Princeton) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Christopher Bobonich (PhD, Berkeley) is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University
Rachel Cohon (PhD, UCLA) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Albany.
Peter Godfrey-Smith (PhD, UC San Diego) is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
Yair Guttmann (PhD, Columbia) appears to be out of philosophy.
P.J. Ivanhoe (PhD, Stanford) is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Hong Kong
Marleen Rozemond (PhD, UCLA) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON
David Finkelstein (PhD, Pittsburgh) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Paul Franks (PhD, Harvard) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Michelle Moody-Adams (PhD, Harvard) is Professor of Ethics and Public Life and of Philosophy at Cornell University.
Timothy O'Connor (PhD, Cornell) is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Leah Savion (PhD, CUNY) is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Timothy van Gelder (PhD, Pittsburgh) is Honorary Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Jenann Ismael (PhD, Princeton) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.
David Owen (DPhil, Oxford) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.
Marga Reimer (PhD, MIT) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.
Houston Smit (PhD, UCLA) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Adrian Cussins (DPhil, Oxford) appears to be out of philosophy.
Wayne Martin (PhD, Berkeley) is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex.
Steven Yalowitz (PhD, Columbia) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL
Roderick Long (PhD, Cornell) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University.
If one compares where the tenure-track faculty in "the top ten" in 1996-97 went to grad school to where those on tenure-track in 2007-08 at "the top ten" went, one can see some of the changes in fortunes of departments during those dozen years.
In 1996-97, 7 of the tenure-track faculty in our sample earned their PhD at Princeton; the number was the same in 2007-08.
In 1996-97, 5 of the tenure-track faculty had earned their PhD at MIT; in 2007-08, that number stood at 8.
In 1996-97, 5 of the tenure-track faculty had earned their PhD at Harvard; in 2007-08 that number stood at 2.
In 1996-97, 4 of the tenure-track faculty had earned their PhD at Cornell; in 2007-08, none of the tenure-track faculty at "top ten" departments were Cornell PhDs.
In 1996-97, 3 tenure-track faculty at "the top ten" were Stanford grads; in 2007-08, none were.
In 1996-97, 6 junior faculty were UCLA grads, while in 2007-08 none of the tenure-track faculty at "top ten" departments were UCLA grads (though several were tenure-track in top 20 departments).
In 1996-97, 3 tenure-track faculty were Berkeley PhDs, while in 2007-08, just one tenure-track faculty member at a top ten department was a Berkeley grad.
Bear in mind, of course, that the tenure-track faculty of 1996-97 were choosing where to go to graduate schools some time between 1982 and 1990 (more or less), while the tenure-track faculty of 2007-08 were choosing where to go to grad school between 1993 and 2001 (more or less).