Ring the bell! The ASA Job Bank has listed the first job with a Fall 2020 hire date. https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/68671
U Maryland CJ posts the first job of the 19-20 season
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11fa here. It can't hurt to apply, they might even bring you out for a job talk or this full professor might get cold feet and decide to stay at their flagship university instead. In which case, you might get the job if you're brought out!
But you going up against a graduate of their PhD program from many years ago who has 10,000+ citations, is a full professor, and who is well known and well liked among the faculty in the criminology department (and field for that matter) is not a battle you're going to win.
I guess I'm just saying if you had your heart set on joining the criminology department at Maryland, I would put that hope to rest because the outcome is almost already decided. If you want to join a top criminology program and have the vita for it, there are other places out there for you where you actually have a decent chance.
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Two comments:
1) It is not AP. It would never be AP (again) there.
2) Maryland has, in the past, squeezed multiple lines out of a single posting. I would not at all be surprised if that is the case again given their impending retirements. So yes, apply. If you have the vita to work at UMD and you do really well on your interview I suspect they would make multiple offers.
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Who in their right Fu*king mind would EVER hire greasy AP? He publishes reams of meaningless papers on crime trajectories (anything! trajectories of dog pissing) or some insignificant twist on a well-worn idea. IF UMD hires this guy they've committed departmental suicide.
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Dear Sociologists who dismiss criminology:
1. You have a really narrow and ill-informed perspective of what Criminology is and how it does/does not diverge from sociology and other areas of sociology.
2. Criminology was long a legitimate sub-field of sociology. It's a stand-alone field now, but still a relevant area of sociology (see the ASA section: Crime, Law, and Deviance).
3. You should care about criminology. If you did, maybe you'd be able to get a job. I don't mean that in a rude way. It's purely pragmatic. Most sociologists have (and students are often required) to identify two areas of sociology, and it is perplexing why more don't choose Criminology given the robust job market and competitive salaries.
4. If you do get a tenure-track job, and that place values funding, research on crime/justice (or relevant to it) ranks quite high (relative to most other areas of sociology) in terms of capacity to attract external funding.
5. Sociology is not exactly thriving and its future vitality is, at a minimum, somewhat questionable. Criminology has grown substantially over the past two decades and is continuing to do so. You may not think that is a good development, but it is true of criminology and not most (all?) other sociology areas.
Having said all of that, keep on keeping on in your sub-area of sociology for which the number of job applicants far surpasses the number of jobs, while those of us who do some research in criminology continue to prosper.