As I’m sure everyone knows, it hasn’t been a great year for trying to get academic jobs in philosophy. And there are some several very good students (including some from Rutgers) who would normally have gotten good jobs with ease, but haven’t got anything this year. But in the midst of all that, a number of Rutgers students have done very well on the job market, and I wanted to congratulate them on their success.

So far, the following students at Rutgers have received tenure-track positions:

• Meghan Sullivan – Notre Dame
• Karen Lewis – USC
• Gabe Greenberg – UCLA
• Allison Hepola – Samford
• Jennifer Nado – Lingnan

The following students have post-docs:

• Carrie Swanson – Indiana
• Evan Williams – Purdue
• Luvell Anderson – Penn State

And these recent graduates have new tenure-track positions

• Christy Mag Uidhir- University of Houston
• Julie Yoo- CSU, Northridge

Well done to all of them, and to Jeff McMahan for a great job as placement director.

I believe that of the 7 tenure-track jobs at top 20 departments listed in on the “Leiter Reports hiring thread”:http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2011/03/tenure-track-and-postdoc-hiring-by-philosophy-departments-2010-11.html, 3 went to Rutgers students. So well done all. And hopefully there’s more good news to report before the market winds up for the year.