A message from Bill regarding the Americanist Hires:
Dear all —
Claudia has authorized me to write with updates on both the current Junior Americanist job search and the ongoing Senior Americanist search. As of late last week, the department faculty voted to offer the Junior Americanist appointment to Sarah Rivett. We are very hopeful that she will accept our offer and join the department next fall.
As for the ongoing Senior Americanist search, Jacqueline Goldsby has decided to accept a position at NYU and will not be coming to Princeton. The department has thus forwarded a recommendation for the appointment of Jennifer Fleissner to the University’s committee on tenure and promotion. If the committee approves this recommendation, an offer will be made to Prof. Fleissner. We hope to learn of the committee’s decision later this spring, and I will write with another update then.
Many thanks to all of you who took the time to come to the recent job talks, and especially to those who sent in comments and thoughts about the three Junior Americanist candidates. Your comments were extremely helpful in the faculty deliberations.
Best,
Bill
