by Jon Lackman | 15 March 2007 | Career, News
How does the hiring data break down by subfield? Who’s getting the most jobs for modernists? For medievalists? Getting answers here is complicated by the fact that there’s no one accepted way to subdivide the field, nor do all art historians fit neatly into one category. We took our best shot. We also found it interesting to see which subfields have been hiring actively and which ones less so. Let’s start with that, then go on to look at who got how many jobs in each subfield:
Subfield (# of top asst. prof. jobs)
Modern/Contemporary Art (37)
Asian Art (20)
Renaissance/Baroque Art (19)
Art of Africa & African Diaspora (14)
Medieval/Byzantine Art (13)
Ancient Art (12)
American Art (11)
Art of Islamic World (9)
Art of Pre-Columbian America (2)
Modern/Contemporary Art
Art History Dept. (# of grads w/top jobs)
1. Columbia (11)
2. Berkeley (5)
3. Yale (3)
3. Harvard (3)
5. Chicago (2)
5. CUNY (2)
5. Rochester (2)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Berkeley (Rhetoric Dept.), Bryn Mawr, Northwestern, U. of Pennsylvania, U. of Pittsburgh, the Sorbonne, Stanford, and U. of Sussex each had one.
Asian Art
Art History Dept. (# of grads w/top jobs)
1. Yale (4)
2. Princeton (3)
3. Harvard (2)
3. Penn (2)
3. UCLA (2)
Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, New School, NYU, Stanford and U. of Washington each had one.
Renaissance/Baroque Art
Art History Dept. (# of grads w/top jobs)
1. Berkeley (3)
2. Brown (2)
2. Harvard (2)
Chicago, Columbia, Courtauld Institute, Istituto Universitario di Architettura (Venice), Johns Hopkins, NYU, Oxford, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA, and U. of Warwick each had one.
Art of Africa & African Diaspora
Art History Dept. (# of grads w/top jobs)
1. Yale (3)
2. Emory (2)
2. Iowa (2)
2. Wisconsin-Madison (2)
Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, UCLA and UCSB each had one.
Medieval/Byzantine Art
Art History Dept. (# of grads w/top jobs)
1. Harvard (2)
1. Johns Hopkins (2)
1. Northwestern (2)
Chicago, Columbia, Courtauld Institute, Princeton, Toronto, U. of Tübingen, and Yale each had one.
Ancient Art
Art History Dept. (# of grads w/top jobs)
1. Princeton (3)
2. NYU (2)
Columbia, Harvard, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Oxford, Penn, Scuola Normale Superiore, and Yale each had one.
American Art
Art History Dept. (# of grads w/top jobs)
1. Delaware (2)
Berkeley, Illinois, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Michigan, NYU (American Studies Dept.), Stanford, UCLA, and Yale each had one.
Art of Islamic World
Art History Dept. (# of grads w/top jobs)
1. MIT (3)
2. Harvard (2)
2. Penn (2)
Edinburgh and NYU had one.
(Note: MIT’s graduates are from that school’s department of architecture.)
Art of Pre-Columbian America
Art History Dept. (# of grads w/top jobs)
1. Texas-Austin (2)
