Welcome to the Psychology Wiki for 2008-09
This page is intended to provide timely information to applicants about the status of academic job searches occurring in 2008-09 in all areas of psychology. As information about a search becomes available, you are encouraged to post it anonymously below. Please follow the posting guidelines and examples to ensure that the wiki remains organized and easy to read. If you are looking for information about the previous hiring cycle, check an earlier version of the wiki.
LAST UPDATED: 8/23/08 at 18:30 PM BST (please change when updating the wiki)
- List schools in alphabetical order
- List each school only once
- Indicate the area of psychology in which the school is hiring as a nested item for that school (see below for examples)
- If information is already given for a position and you have new information, append it to the existing information (see below)
- Indicate the date that your information was posted
Anyville Community College
- Open: application acknowledged 2/2; phone interview 3/16; rejection letter 3/17; offer made 3/28; offer accepted 4/7
Big Name University
- Clinical: application acknowledged 9/27; rejection letter 11/8; campus interview 11/15; job talks posted here 11/27; offer made 1/5; offer accepted 1/15
- Developmental: application acknowledged 10/15; short list 11/25; rejection letter 11/30; phone interview 12/1; campus interview 12/5; offer made 2/1; offer accepted 2/8
Huge State University
- Cognitive neuroscience: application acknowledged 10/30; search canceled 12/13
- Social: application acknowledged 10/24; short list 11/27; campus interview 12/25; rejection letter 12/28
Some Small Liberal Arts College
- Open (2 positions): application acknowledged 11/2; short list 11/30; phone interview 12/16; rejection letter 12/17; two offers made 1/28; both offers accepted 2/14
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Bradley University
- Experimental Psychology
Boston College
- Developmental
Bucknell University
- Health
Carnegie Mellon University
- Social and Decision Sciences
College of Charleston
- Cognitive
- Developmental
Cornell University
- Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Joint Appointment
Creighton University
- Personality Psychology
Dartmouth College
- Social/Social Neuroscience
Drew University
- Developmental
Gettysburg College
- Social Psychology
Iowa State University
- Social Psychology
- Psychology and Law
Johns Hopkins University
- Cognitive Science
Lafayette College
- Neuroscience
Loyola College in Maryland
- Applied-Experimental Psychology
McGill University (Canada)
- Quantitative Psychology
Michigan State University
- Applied quantitative methodology
- Clinical
- Cognitive
New York University
- Social Psychology
Northern Arizona University
- Social/personality Psychology
Ohio State University
- 4 positions (health psychology, developmental, neuroscience, decision making)
Oklahoma State University
- Clinical
Pomona College
- Clinical
Purdue University
- I/O (2 positions)
Queens College of CUNY
- Social Psychology
Rice University
- Cognitive psychology
St. Louis University
- Social psychology
University of British Columbia (Canada)
- Clinical
- Developmental
University of California, Davis
- Developmental cognitive neuroscience
University of California, Irvine
- Social/personality Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
- Cognitive neuroscience (emphasis on neuroimaging)
University of California, San Diego
- Cognitive psychology (emphasis on language)
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Developmental (2 positions)
University of Chicago
- Integrative neuroscience
- experimental social psychology
University of Denver
- 2 positions in three areas (Cognitive; Social; Affective Science)
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
- 2 positions (Affective Neuroscience; Quantitative)
University of Maryland, College Park
- Social Cognitive development in the department of Human Development
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Race/ethnicity and adoption
- Stress and coping
University of Massachusettes, Boston
- Developmental behavioral neuroscience
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Clinical Cultural Psychology
University of Minnesota, Twin cities
- Multicultural Psychology
University of Missouri, Columbia
- Quantitative
University of North Texas
- Quantitative
University of Richmond
- Cognitive psychology/science
University of Vermont
- Clinical
University of Wisconsin
-Cognitive Science (http://cogsci.wisc.edu/CogSciAd08.htm)
University of Wyoming
- Social Psychology
Vanderbilt University
- Social of affective neuroscience
Vassar College
- Social Psychology
Webster University
- Cognitive