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Bad Advisors and Good Mentors

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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

Strategizing Your CV for the Job Market

By Karen Kelsky | January 30, 2015

It's that time again! Alert readers know that each Spring I provide a limited-time CV Strategizing Session service between February and April.  The idea is to look ahead to the Fall 2015 market, and help graduate students going on the market for the … [Read more...] about Strategizing Your CV for the Job Market

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

An Inconvenient Truth (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | November 4, 2014

A reader got in touch to tell me about an infuriating experience at a recent conference. I asked her to write it up as a guest post, and here it is. Professors: stop the madness. Tell graduate students the goddamned truth. Dear Karen, I just … [Read more...] about An Inconvenient Truth (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Major Job Market Mistakes, Ph.D. Poverty, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

In Response to Popular Demand, More on the 5-Year Plan

By Karen Kelsky | May 9, 2014

This is a repost of an older post.  It follows sequentially from last week's on the five-year plan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In response to the flood of inquiries about what, exactly, a 5-Year Plan should look like, following on last week's post, … [Read more...] about In Response to Popular Demand, More on the 5-Year Plan

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Graduate school 5-year plan

Dr. Karen F**ks Up

By Karen Kelsky | April 11, 2014

A constant tension in my work at The Professor Is In is the awkward balance between the free content that I provide on the blog, and the fee-based services I charge money for.  From the start there has been a chorus of detractors who decry the fact … [Read more...] about Dr. Karen F**ks Up

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Dr Karen, Hamster Version

By Karen Kelsky | March 21, 2014

Click on this for the full comic (or scroll down): Thank you, marvelous reader Ainsley Seago, coleopterist and comic artist extraordinaire! … [Read more...] about Dr Karen, Hamster Version

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The 5 Top Traits of the Worst Advisors

By Karen Kelsky | February 23, 2014

On Twitter today I got pinged on a discussion among @ArchaeologyLisa, @DrIsis,  @LexMcBride about how much publishing is necessary for the tenure track job market. The discussion was prompted by today's post on the Isis the Scientist blog, Writing At … [Read more...] about The 5 Top Traits of the Worst Advisors

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: dealing with graduate school advisor, dealing with your advisor, How to deal with professors, the best advisors, the worst advisors, worst graduate school advisor

Beyond Tenurecentrism – Cardozo 1

By Karen Kelsky | February 12, 2014

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

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Graduate Student Shrimps on the Doctoral Barbie: The View from Tenure (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | January 24, 2014

Kathleen Lowrey, a recently tenured prof at the University of Alberta, got in touch with thoughts on the contradictions of the tenured subject position, inspired by my post on Tenured Privilege.  I asked her to consider contributing a guest post, and … [Read more...] about Graduate Student Shrimps on the Doctoral Barbie: The View from Tenure (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Ph.D. Poverty, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Who Is “Us”? Thoughts on the MLA

By Karen Kelsky | January 13, 2014

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

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Quitting--An Excellent Option

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