[URBANTH-L]The Temp-Scholar Market and the Future of Anthropology

[Angela Jancius]

From: "Eugene McCann" <emccann at sfu.ca>

Angela,

I'm passing on the reference to a paper by a friend of mine that you may 
find interesting (although not of any material help, I'm afraid).

"Skilled, Cheap, and Desperate": Non-tenure-track Faculty and the Delusion 
of Meritocracy

Mark Purcell, Department of Urban Design & Planning, University of 
Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; mpurcell at u.washington.edu

Antipode 39 (1), 121-143.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00509.x


Good luck,
Eugene McCann
Geography, Simon Fraser University

(We talked last summer on email -- I mentioned that I'd been at OU on a 
one year contract a few years ago)