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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
@asheeshks.org

Although we don’t know exactly how many faculty a few of these civic centers will bring on through their cluster hires this cycle, I would estimate that there are about 40 jobs of various kinds, but mostly tenure-track, in or aligned with right-wing civic centers already advertised.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org

Another civic center job. Amazing how these are multiplying. Adding to my list: asheeshksi.substack.com/p/tracking-c...

asheeshksi.substack.comTracking Civic Thought Hiring in the 2026-2027 Academic Job CycleI wanted to put together a post that tracks how right-wing civic thought programs have rapidly been taking over the academic hiring space in the humanities, especially in fields like history (mostly A...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
@asheeshks.org

Incredible how money to hire in the humanities suddenly seems to appear when you make sure you aren‘t hiring anyone who works on race, gender, class, power etc.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique
@asheeshks.org

It suggests that the whole discourse about enrollments/declining majors in the humanities is neither here nor there. Hiring happens because people with access to capital want it to happen. The problem is the Left is not making the investment.