This post deals with full professors in archaeology and is one of a series of posts dealing with academic jobs for archaeologists.
If you want to know more about associate professors see here, assistant professors see here, or methodology used to collect the results see here.
There are rouglhy 494 full professors of archaeology (plus a few who don’t teach in archaeology/archaeology related departments) in the United States. Most of the professors obtained their PhD’s 20+ years ago but some are more recent. (it should be noted the 2001 and 2002 dates are unknown if they are full professors or not the school websites were vague but the 2000 is confirmed)
| No year listed | 26 | 6.6% |
| 1964 | 2 | 0.5% |
| 1965 | 3 | 0.8% |
| 1966 | 5 | 1.3% |
| 1967 | 2 | 0.5% |
| 1968 | 3 | 0.8% |
| 1969 | 4 | 1.0% |
| 1970 | 7 | 1.8% |
| 1971 | 6 | 1.5% |
| 1972 | 9 | 2.3% |
| 1973 | 17 | 4.3% |
| 1974 | 12 | 3.0% |
| 1975 | 19 | 4.8% |
| 1976 | 23 | 5.8% |
| 1977 | 13 | 3.3% |
| 1978 | 18 | 4.6% |
| 1979 | 21 | 5.3% |
| 1980 | 17 | 4.3% |
| 1981 | 22 | 5.6% |
| 1982 | 21 | 5.3% |
| 1983 | 23 | 5.8% |
| 1984 | 16 | 4.1% |
| 1985 | 16 | 4.1% |
| 1986 | 19 | 4.8% |
| 1987 | 24 | 6.1% |
| 1988 | 21 | 5.3% |
| 1989 | 22 | 5.6% |
| 1990 | 21 | 5.3% |
| 1991 | 22 | 5.6% |
| 1992 | 6 | 1.5% |
| 1993 | 13 | 3.3% |
| 1994 | 8 | 2.0% |
| 1995 | 6 | 1.5% |
| 1996 | 8 | 2.0% |
| 1997 | 7 | 1.8% |
| 1998 | 6 | 1.5% |
| 1999 | 3 | 0.8% |
| 2000 | 1 | 0.3% |
| 2001 | 1 | 0.3% |
| 2002 | 1 | 0.3% |
Amazingly there are people who got their degrees in the 1960′s and are still full time faculty. The average age of a new Archaeology PhD in the 1960s was about 30 so some of these prof. are about 75-80 yrs. old and still working. About 7% of them got their degrees from universities outside of the US.
| University of Toronto | 3 | 0.6% |
| University of Sheffield | 2 | 0.4% |
| University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of London | 3 | 0.6% |
| University of Cambridge | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of British Columbia | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of Alberta | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of Amsterdam | 1 | 0.2% |
| Simon Fraser University | 1 | 0.2% |
| Southampton University | 1 | 0.2% |
| Oxford University | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of Stellenbosch | 1 | 0.2% |
| McGill University | 1 | 0.2% |
| Hebrew Univeristy | 2 | 0.4% |
| Freie Universität Berlin | 2 | 0.4% |
| Cambridge University | 9 | 1.8% |
| Calgary | 2 | 0.4% |
| Australian National U | 1 | 0.2% |
| 34 | 6.9% |
The majority got their degrees from inside the US
| American University | 1 | 0.2% |
| Bryn Mawr College | 1 | 0.2% |
| Idaho State University | 1 | 0.2% |
| Oregon State University | 1 | 0.2% |
| Purdue University | 1 | 0.2% |
| Rutgers University | 1 | 0.2% |
| SUNY-Stony Brook | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of Cincinnati | 1 | 0.2% |
| Union Theological Seminary | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of Alaska Fairbanks | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of New York at Buffalo | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of Oklahoma | 1 | 0.2% |
| University of Virginia | 1 | 0.2% |
| Case Western Reserve University | 2 | 0.4% |
| Catholic University | 2 | 0.4% |
| Cornell University | 2 | 0.4% |
| State University of New York at Albany | 2 | 0.4% |
| Texas A&M University | 2 | 0.4% |
| University of California, Davis | 2 | 0.4% |
| University of Connecticut | 2 | 0.4% |
| University of Oregon | 2 | 0.4% |
| Vanderbilt University | 2 | 0.4% |
| Graduate School & University Center (CUNY) | 3 | 0.6% |
| Ohio State University | 3 | 0.6% |
| University of Kansas | 3 | 0.6% |
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 3 | 0.6% |
| New York University | 4 | 0.8% |
| University of California, Riverside | 4 | 0.8% |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 4 | 0.8% |
| Washington University – St. Louis | 4 | 0.8% |
| Pennsylvania State University | 5 | 1.0% |
| Southern Illinois University – Carbondale | 5 | 1.0% |
| University of Colorado-Boulder | 5 | 1.0% |
| University of Georgia | 5 | 1.0% |
| University of Minnesota | 5 | 1.0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | 5 | 1.0% |
| University of Tennessee, Knoxville | 5 | 1.0% |
| Northwestern University | 6 | 1.2% |
| Southern Methodist University | 6 | 1.2% |
| University of Utah | 6 | 1.2% |
| Washington State University | 6 | 1.2% |
| Michigan State University | 7 | 1.4% |
| Tulane University | 7 | 1.4% |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | 7 | 1.4% |
| Brown University | 8 | 1.6% |
| University of Florida | 8 | 1.6% |
| University of Missouri, Columbia | 8 | 1.6% |
| Yale University | 8 | 1.6% |
| None listed | 9 | 1.8% |
| Columbia University | 9 | 1.8% |
| Indiana University | 9 | 1.8% |
| University of Texas at Austin | 9 | 1.8% |
| University of New Mexico | 10 | 2.0% |
| University of Washington | 10 | 2.0% |
| State University of New York at Binghamton | 11 | 2.2% |
| Arizona State University | 12 | 2.4% |
| University of Chicago | 13 | 2.6% |
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 14 | 2.8% |
| University of Massachusetts at Amherst | 14 | 2.8% |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | 16 | 3.2% |
| University of Pennsylvania | 16 | 3.2% |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 18 | 3.6% |
| University of California Berkeley | 25 | 5.1% |
| Harvard University | 28 | 5.7% |
| University of Arizona | 29 | 5.9% |
| University of Michigan | 37 | 7.5% |
Since these archaeologists received their degrees at least 20 years ago you can use this as a rough guide of what schools use to be dominate and who are up and coming. For example Texas A&M only has two of its graduates in full prof. positions but they have three times as many assistant professors (those that have got their degrees in the last few years). It looks like their program has increased their success in getting their graduates into academic jobs.
I hope to figure out an rough average pay soon and will post on it.
February 17th, 2012 → 10:11 pm
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