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Surviving Assistant Professorhood

Dance, Dance, Revolution

By Karen Kelsky | April 15, 2016

Years ago, the gender studies program at my university hosted a Latin American female hip hop group, who gave a roundtable on women and rap in Latin America on campus, and then a live concert.  The roundtable was great, but I'll never, to the day I … [Read more...] about Dance, Dance, Revolution

Filed Under: Mental Health and Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

My Top Five Tips for Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book–A Special Request Post

By Karen Kelsky | February 26, 2016

This is a repost from 2011. Today is another Special Request Post.  This one is from Maria, who asks, do I have a template (like my Foolproof Grant Template) for turning a dissertation into a book? No, Maria, I do not.  The process of turning the … [Read more...] about My Top Five Tips for Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book–A Special Request Post

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Publishing Issues, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Writing Tagged With: advice for making my dissertation into a book, how to write a monograph, how to write an academic book, turning your dissertation into a book

Heroic Mother Teaches Class With Sick Child – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | October 5, 2015

(This is not a post-ac post, as I normally put up on Mondays.  But it's a great guest post and I wanted to share it right away.) It's by Stephanie Brown. Stephanie is cultural anthropologist and adjunct instructor in the Department of Human … [Read more...] about Heroic Mother Teaches Class With Sick Child – Guest Post

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Advice for Your First Year on the Tenure Track

By Karen Kelsky | August 21, 2015

This is a repost. Update 8/22/15:  Dialogue on my FB page made me realize that I need to provide fuller context for this post.  This dates from early years on the blog when I used to do special request posts to respond to reader questions.  "Tricia" … [Read more...] about Advice for Your First Year on the Tenure Track

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: assistant professor advice, first year assistant professor advice, first year on the tenure track, tenure track job, tenure track job advice, year one tenure track

Hope, with Pictures and a Drawing

By Karen Kelsky | August 14, 2015

In a burst of inspiration last weekend, I outlined my next book! I want to share my idea with you, and ask you for your thoughts, comments, stories, and suggestions. It's going to draw a lot from reader/client experiences. But first, please check … [Read more...] about Hope, with Pictures and a Drawing

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood

How To Write A Book Proposal

By Karen Kelsky | July 2, 2015

You all know that the book proposal is the cornerstone to a successful tenure track career in most areas of the humanities and social sciences. Sure, some parts of psychology and economics and other fields are not book-based, but basically, the law … [Read more...] about How To Write A Book Proposal

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It Tagged With: how to sell an academic book, how to write an academic book proposal, humanities book proposal, selling an academic book, writing for an academic press

The “Tenuous Track” (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | June 26, 2015

by Anonymous, Ph.D. Given that the vast majority of faculty members now teach off the tenure track, landing one of these coveted positions feels like winning the academic lottery. Before accepting my current tenure track position, I was actually … [Read more...] about The “Tenuous Track” (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Major Job Market Mistakes, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Surviving Assistant Professorhood

How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference

By Karen Kelsky | May 29, 2015

This week the Daily Nous website has a marvelous post, Answers From Academic Publishers, devoted to advice on publishing an academic monograph solicited from actual editors from Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Routledge, and other major presses.  It has an … [Read more...] about How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It Tagged With: Advice for first time authors, How to get a book contract, Pitching a book to an editor

Buy My Book!

By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2015

Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form--only $11.40!  Available for pre-order now--comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For bulk orders for use … [Read more...] about Buy My Book!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, Tenure--How To Get It, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

The Status of the Press Matters, Still!

By Karen Kelsky | November 28, 2014

A debate has simmered on the comment thread to my post, Does the Status of the Press Matter, in recent weeks, on the question: is Palgrave MacMillan a press with high enough status for a US R1 tenure case?  My position has always been, based on my … [Read more...] about The Status of the Press Matters, Still!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Book Proposals and Contracts, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

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