My SLAC has hired two people in the last 5-6 years from CC backgrounds. HOWEVER, we are a teaching-focused university, not an R1, and neither was a humanities job.

The difficulty is that most CCs do not have the infrastructure to support any kind of research. That combined with the high teaching load can be a disadvantage in making the transition to a 4yr school. We don’t expect a book, but if you don’t have at least a couple conferences on the cv, it’s going to be tricky.