Jessica Langer holds a PhD in English and is CEO of ideas in flight, a social media and digital marketing agency that specializes in strategy, training and implementation for SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises). Jessica tells her post-ac … [Read more...] about From English PhD to Digital Marketing Entrepreneur – Langer 1
Adjunct Issues
Freeing the Academic Elephant – Cardozo 2
What do Foucault, Martha Beck, George Mallory, and Death Cab for Cutie have in common? An ambivalent relation to the discipline required and imposed in the pursuit of a single-minded goal. In your case: the academic career, and the ways that you've … [Read more...] about Freeing the Academic Elephant – Cardozo 2
So You Want To Come to the Dark Side: Starting the #Postac Journey – Polizzi 1
Allessandria Polizzi has been in corporate education, change management and organizational development for over 15 years, and currently leads education for 7-Eleven. She has a Ph.D. in English. In this post she helps you do a systematic diagnostic … [Read more...] about So You Want To Come to the Dark Side: Starting the #Postac Journey – Polizzi 1
Chronicle Vitae’s Free Dossier Service
As you probably know by now I am launching a post-ac branch of The Professor Is In, dedicated to advice and information for people seeking jobs outside the academy. I’ll be posting 2 post-ac posts written by my team of experts early in the week, and … [Read more...] about Chronicle Vitae’s Free Dossier Service
Beyond Tenurecentrism – Cardozo 1
Karen Cardozo has worked in both academic administration (Harvard, Williams) and on the tenure track (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts). In this post she coins the term "tenurecentrism" for our collectively inability to "see" alternatives to … [Read more...] about Beyond Tenurecentrism – Cardozo 1
Introducing The Post-Ac Experts: Karen Cardozo and Allessandria Polizzi
Today I introduce two of my team of Post-Ac Experts, Karen Cardozo and Allessandria Polizzi. The team as a whole includes experts in all of the following (see the full bios here [still in progress]): Alt-ac positions in advising (Cardozo) … [Read more...] about Introducing The Post-Ac Experts: Karen Cardozo and Allessandria Polizzi
The Professor Is In Goes Post-Ac
A big announcement: The Professor Is In is expanding to the post-academic job search. I've collected a panel of experts who have all made successful post-academic transitions to a range of different types of work, and they'll be posting regularly on … [Read more...] about The Professor Is In Goes Post-Ac
For Adjunct Professors, Winter is Break-ing (A re-post on Ph.D. poverty)
I encountered this story by Caprice Lawless through A New Faculty Majority Facebook page, and was so struck by it, that I contacted her to ask permission to put on the TPII blog. She graciously agreed. It is an account of adjunct poverty that is … [Read more...] about For Adjunct Professors, Winter is Break-ing (A re-post on Ph.D. poverty)
The Shame of Ph.D. Debt
Last week, in response to a skeptical comment about levels of Ph.D. debt on an earlier post, I created The Ph.D. Debt Survey, an open-source Googledoc spreadsheet. It has now passed 1700 entries. The original spreadsheet is here. I’m still … [Read more...] about The Shame of Ph.D. Debt
Who Is “Us”? Thoughts on the MLA
I’ll start with two observations about the MLA, since so many have asked for my impressions as an anthropologist attending for the first time. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Because I have no years of psychic wounds connected to the MLA, I felt … [Read more...] about Who Is “Us”? Thoughts on the MLA