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In 2008, the academic job market crashed and never recovered. I know this for a very particular reason: That year I received my Ph.D. in classics from Princeton University, but most of the jobs had evaporated in the recession. Every year since, the number of jobs in the field has only grown smaller, paired most years by the announcements of closures of classics departments—and those in other humanities fields—in universities across the U.S. and the U.K.
Nadya Williams is a Senior Fellow in the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, where she also serves as the interim director of the MFA program. She is books editor at Mere Orthodoxy, where she hosts the Christians Reading Classics podcast. Her latest book is Christians Reading Classics.
