The academic faculty job market is often viewed as an opaque "black box," where success is attributed to a mix of luck and anecdotal advice. Our research changes that. By leveraging large-scale, longitudinal datasets from thousands of applicants, we provide an empirical account of how hiring is experienced, and how it is changing. From identifying the shifting benchmarks of research productivity to uncovering how structural inequities persist despite equivalent metrics, our work moves beyond "outcome counting" to reveal the systemic dynamics of the professoriate. Explore our peer-reviewed publications across the biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences below.
Amanda L. Mollet, Ada Hagan, You Cheng, A. Kozik, Christopher T. Smith, Amanda Haage, Nafisa M. Jadavji
Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2025
An updated and expanded characterization of the biological sciences academic job market
Brooklyn Flynn, Ariangela J Kozik, You Cheng, Ada K Hagan, Jennifer Ng, Christopher Smith, Amanda Haage, Nafisa Jadavi
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, vol. 9, 2024
Ariangela J Kozik, Ada K Hagan, Nafisa Jadavi, Christopher Smith, Amanda Haage
Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, vol. 17(1), 2024, pp. 16-37
Research Culture: A survey-based analysis of the academic job market
Jason D Fernandes, Sarvenaz Sarabipour, Christopher Smith, Natalie M Niemi, Nafisa Jadavi, Ariangela J Kozik, Alex S Holehouse, Vikas Pejaver, Orsolya Symmons, Alexandre W Bisson Filho, Amanda Haage
eLife, vol. 9, 2020