Wherein the University of Chicago defies all reason
A few months ago when the whole tenure and blogging question became a hot topic (I’m still fielding press inquiries) I tried to reiterate the same point over and over again — it’s possible that blogging played a role in my own denial, but I seriously doubt it was the overriding factor. I bring this ...
A few months ago when the whole tenure and blogging question became a hot topic (I'm still fielding press inquiries) I tried to reiterate the same point over and over again -- it's possible that blogging played a role in my own denial, but I seriously doubt it was the overriding factor. I bring this up again because Jacob Levy has gone public with his own denial of tenure. Read the whole thing, but Jacob closes his post with the following: Mainly I'm putting this up because the publicity around Dan Drezner's case led to a lot of e-mailed questions and some blog speculation about mine. If you're looking for things in common between Dan's case and mine, don't look to blogging; and don't look to our libertarian politics.... Look to the fact that both political economy and liberal political theory are outside the emerging, Perestroikan, sense of what this department's about. I've blogged about perestroika and political science in the past -- check out those posts for my take on the debate. I can neither confirm nor deny Jacob's hypothesis about perestroika's deletrious effects on my department. After witnessing my department's treatment of Jacob's case, I'm afraid that the primary hypothesis I cannot falsify is that a majority of my senior colleagues are complete and total wankers have unorthodox views of what constitutes appropriate social science. Chris Lawrence has further thoughts.
A few months ago when the whole tenure and blogging question became a hot topic (I’m still fielding press inquiries) I tried to reiterate the same point over and over again — it’s possible that blogging played a role in my own denial, but I seriously doubt it was the overriding factor. I bring this up again because Jacob Levy has gone public with his own denial of tenure. Read the whole thing, but Jacob closes his post with the following:
Mainly I’m putting this up because the publicity around Dan Drezner’s case led to a lot of e-mailed questions and some blog speculation about mine. If you’re looking for things in common between Dan’s case and mine, don’t look to blogging; and don’t look to our libertarian politics…. Look to the fact that both political economy and liberal political theory are outside the emerging, Perestroikan, sense of what this department’s about.
I’ve blogged about perestroika and political science in the past — check out those posts for my take on the debate. I can neither confirm nor deny Jacob’s hypothesis about perestroika’s deletrious effects on my department. After witnessing my department’s treatment of Jacob’s case, I’m afraid that the primary hypothesis I cannot falsify is that a majority of my senior colleagues are complete and total wankers have unorthodox views of what constitutes appropriate social science. Chris Lawrence has further thoughts.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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