Timeline for U.S. humanities professors: Can you get back into academia if you leave?
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 21:08 | comment | added | user2357112 | More or less next-to-impossible than reaching the original tenured professor position in the first place? | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 14:18 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | I don't know. I'd expect you'd have real trouble getting back to a top-10 program, but a smaller school that's more teaching focused instead of research might be very eager to have someone with experience at that level. She still have to compete with the hypothetical 200 resumes, but good references from her current program could help her stand out from the crowd. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 13:46 | history | edited | RoboKaren | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2017 at 20:18 | comment | added | corsiKa | What the reason for leaving is doesn't matter - if they're going to invest in a tenured position, they'd prefer one that doesn't already have a history of leaving a tenured position!! | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 14:05 | comment | added | RoboKaren | That's why they should do this during their sabbatical or take a leave of absence. | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 12:28 | comment | added | Pharap | What if the OP just wanted to try something different, struggled to find something else or what they did find wasn't as good, and now decided that really academia was what they wanted to do after all? | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 4:52 | history | edited | RoboKaren | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2017 at 4:50 | comment | added | RoboKaren | Leaving a tenured position is unusual and requires good reason. The OP is then applying to get back into academia. Suspicions will be aroused. If you leave, you won't find it easy to get back in | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 4:23 | comment | added | David | Is a search committee really going to think that leaving academia is indicative of a sexual harassment claim or Title IX investigation? Wouldn't that require that a large proportion of people who leave academia do it for those specific purposes? Is there a problem with sexual harassment in the humanities that I'm not aware of? | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 3:43 | history | answered | RoboKaren | CC BY-SA 3.0 |