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Graduate Student Concerns

What Not To Say to Grad Students During a Pandemic – WOC Guest Post

By Guest Author | April 9, 2020

I saw this thread on Twitter and invited Fay Lin to submit it as a guest post for the blog. Thank you, Fay. Fay is a 4th year PhD candidate in Biochemistry at UCLA, where she uses math modeling to study biological networks in immune … [Read more...] about What Not To Say to Grad Students During a Pandemic – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, COVID19, Graduate Student Concerns, Women of Color in Academia

#Dispatches From the Front – Help, I Have a Toxic Advisor! Part I: Firing Your Advisor, Building Your Team

By Karen Kelsky | February 17, 2020

In our new Dispatches series, we crowdsource responses to questions we see about the academic job market and career. This week, the question is: “Help, I have a toxic advisor/PI? What can I do? What have other people done in this … [Read more...] about #Dispatches From the Front – Help, I Have a Toxic Advisor! Part I: Firing Your Advisor, Building Your Team

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Dispatches

Pearls of Wisdom–The Blog

By Karen Kelsky | February 14, 2020

Love the blog? Then get the book. It also makes a great gift for all the struggling grad students in your life. (For bulk orders for use in classes, seminars, and workshops, please call Crown Publishing /Random House Customer Service at … [Read more...] about Pearls of Wisdom–The Blog

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Surviving Your First Conference: Tips for Anxious Newbies

By Karen Kelsky | January 9, 2020

I get a lot of questions about the Academic Conference from junior academics. Conferences are daunting! Even for more senior people. But they are an essential part of your academic career, so the sooner you get comfortable, the better - and honestly … [Read more...] about Surviving Your First Conference: Tips for Anxious Newbies

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, How To Do Conferences, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student

Interview with Karen Kaplan, Senior Careers Editor at Nature

By Karen Kelsky | September 6, 2019

Karen Kaplan reached out to share thoughts on the academic job market. We had a great conversation and I learned a lot about STEM career paths which I am already bringing to clients and audiences. Then, she kindly allowed me to persuade her to do … [Read more...] about Interview with Karen Kaplan, Senior Careers Editor at Nature

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Trailer Park Professor: On R1 Success and Learning to Value Yourself (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 30, 2019

I got the chance to meet a client-turned-R1 assistant professor at the AAA meetings, and I asked her what she found most helpful about the work with me.  She took the time to write it out. This is what she wrote. I finished my PhD in Anthropology … [Read more...] about Trailer Park Professor: On R1 Success and Learning to Value Yourself (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Anthropology’s Alternative Facts

By Karen Kelsky | January 12, 2019

After attending the AAA and AAR meetings, I wrote a blog post called A Tale of Two Conferences. In it, I bemoaned the sorry state of the AAA's engagement with issues of real-life (as opposed to academic jargon) precarity and the scandal of … [Read more...] about Anthropology’s Alternative Facts

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

What Is Free? Elitism and University Careers Advising

By Karen Kelsky | November 29, 2018

I wrote last week about my good times at the American Academy of Religion conference. And it was indeed a very good time. But there was one incident that I can’t stop thinking about, and I want to share it here. Because, it gets at the elitism that … [Read more...] about What Is Free? Elitism and University Careers Advising

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors

Feminist Elites and Patriarchal Solidarity – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

By Karen Kelsky | August 31, 2018

By TPII Editor Dr. Maggie Levantovskaya As an editor at The Professor Is In, I have closely followed #MeTooPhD movement started by Karen Kelsky. She coined the hashtag and opened a crowdsourcing survey to give the opportunity to people who … [Read more...] about Feminist Elites and Patriarchal Solidarity – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

Filed Under: #MeTooPhD, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Sexual Harassment in the Academy, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

A TPII Alum Gives a Commencement Address!

By Karen Kelsky | June 21, 2018

I am so pleased to share this Commencement Address given this year at the Ellis School, by one of the earliest TPII clients: Dr. Jessica Hammer. To see someone I worked with go from applying for her first job to delivering a commencement address... … [Read more...] about A TPII Alum Gives a Commencement Address!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

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