/lit/ - Literature

I know it’s technically about Historian academics, but this articles pretty much explains why Humanities are dying as a whole.

TL:DR - So many college admins roles have been created the past few decades that tenure-level positions have been cut. Also, schools receive more funding for STEM research that they are focused more on that in the spending department. This has caused many organizations to stop giving out scholarships and funding for the humanities.

>The Dangerous Decline of the Historical Profession

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/opinion/american-history-college-university-academia.html

>Jan. 14, 2023
>By Daniel Bessner
>Mr. Bessner is a historian.

>When I received my Ph.D. in history in 2013, I didn’t expect that within a decade fights over history — and historiography, even if few people use that word — would become front-page news. But over the last few years that is precisely what has happened: Just look at the recent debates over America’s legacy of slavery, what can be taught in public schools about the nation’s founders and even the definition of what constitutes fascism. The interpretation of the American past has not in recent memory been as public or as contentious as it is now.