Market share and recent hiring trends in anthropology faculty positions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2018, Pages

  Speakman, Robert J ^a   Hadden, Carla S ^a   Colvin, Matthew H ^a   Cramb, Justin ^a   Jones, K C ^a   Jones, Travis W ^a   Lulewicz, Isabelle ^a   Napora, Katharine G ^a   Reinberger, Katherine L ^a   Ritchison, Brandon T ^a   Edwards, Alexandra R ^a   Thompson, Victor D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER; MALE; MARKET; TEACHING; ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ANTHROPOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85053124268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202528     Document Type: Article

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