For those who think classics is in decline, would you rather have been teaching classics 100 years ago? 75 years ago? 50 years ago? Maybe you were teaching 50 years ago and can speak to the changes for better and worse. I am glad to be doing it now. 1/4
I will admit, I don't have detailed data for Classics so you may be right! For history generally, the AHA does keep pretty detailed data which shows that, at least for history, the period post 2009 is by far the worst academic job market since the 70s:pic.twitter.com/hary1311r1