Below you will find some links related to PhD production and the job market. You might start with Colleges Shouldn't Be Employment Agencies and comments thereupon. These are a bit dated but on point. You might then move on to some recent pieces on pursuing PhDs in the humanities and science that have very different messages.
If you wish to explore this topic further there is a special issue in Nature about the state of the PhD in science that is worth reading. This is not focused on anthropology (which many practitioners do not believe to be scientific), but there will be much relevant for students pursuing graduate studies in all subdisciplines. You may also want to take a look at the profession in the Almanac of Higher Education 2010, Faculty Immobility in the New Economy, Efforts to Measure Faculty Workload Don't Add Up, Junior Professors: Juggling Teaching, Research, and Advice, and a short post entitled Changing How Academia Works and the links therein.
If you are not on campus you will need to use the CU VPN to access some of the readings.
If you wish to explore this topic further there is a special issue in Nature about the state of the PhD in science that is worth reading. This is not focused on anthropology (which many practitioners do not believe to be scientific), but there will be much relevant for students pursuing graduate studies in all subdisciplines. You may also want to take a look at the profession in the Almanac of Higher Education 2010, Faculty Immobility in the New Economy, Efforts to Measure Faculty Workload Don't Add Up, Junior Professors: Juggling Teaching, Research, and Advice, and a short post entitled Changing How Academia Works and the links therein.
If you are not on campus you will need to use the CU VPN to access some of the readings.
