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Bad Advisors and Good Mentors
Strategizing Your CV for the Job Market
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
An Inconvenient Truth (A Guest Post)
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)
In Response to Popular Demand, More on the 5-Year Plan
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
Dr. Karen F**ks Up
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
Dr Karen, Hamster Version
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
The 5 Top Traits of the Worst Advisors
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
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
Graduate Student Shrimps on the Doctoral Barbie: The View from Tenure (A Guest Post)
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)
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