In light of hiring freezes and sharp declines in the number of jobs advertised in the humanities field as a whole, the second Humanities Departmental Survey (HDS-2) was designed to capture changes in the employment status and demographics of humanities faculty. A comparison of the 2007–08 and 2012–13 data reveals little change in the disciplines included in both studies. HDS-2 studied degree-granting departments and programs only at four-year colleges and universities. For the purposes of...
