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Podcast: CAA Conversations
Episode: Nancy Um // Aaron Hyman // Pepe Karmel // Dissertations, Schools, Advisers, and Jobs
Description: Dissertations, Schools, Advisers, and Jobs: What the Numbers Tell Us about Art History
In this conversation, Nancy Um, Pepe Karmel, and Aaron Hyman discuss how computational analysis of dissertation topics and job placements casts light on the state of art history. Their discussion summarizes and expands upon caa.review's ongoing series, "What do we know about the future of art history?", including essays by Um (August 18, 2020), Um and Emily Hagen (June 28, 2021), and Karmel (forthcoming). Um and Karmel delve into the merits and difficulties of learning to work with quantitative methods, the potential and pitfalls of data-driven claims, the responsibilities of...