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Graduate Student Concerns

Academic Gatekeeping 101: A Master Class – Post by Rebecca Schuman

By Karen Kelsky | April 2, 2018

[Update 4/2/18 8 PM Pacific:  The tenured scholar demanded a correction over on Rebecca Schuman's blog about the nature of the journal referenced in this post, and requested I follow suit; the nature of this demand is spelled out by the scholar in a … [Read more...] about Academic Gatekeeping 101: A Master Class – Post by Rebecca Schuman

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

Sad Thursdays: The Student Perspective on Academic Hiring Practices (in Anthropological Archaeology)

By Karen Kelsky | March 23, 2018

I am delighted to host this guest post, contributed by the following group of graduate student authors from the Anthropology department at the University of Georgia: K.C. Jones, Travis Jones, Matthew Colvin, Justin Cramb, Katharine Napora, Katherine … [Read more...] about Sad Thursdays: The Student Perspective on Academic Hiring Practices (in Anthropological Archaeology)

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

“Perhaps Even a Crisis”: How to Sully the Purity of a Vocation

By Karen Kelsky | February 14, 2018

There is a new piece from Cultural Anthropology, "Academic Precarity in American Anthropology,"  -- co-written by a Full Prof at Duke and her new Ph.D. son who has "chosen" non-academic work -- that literally defies description in its elitism, … [Read more...] about “Perhaps Even a Crisis”: How to Sully the Purity of a Vocation

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Shame

A Crowdsourced Survey of Sexual Harassment in the Academy

By Karen Kelsky | December 1, 2017

Sexual harassment is rampant in the academy as it is in every other industry.  The entrenched hierarchies of the academic world, the small size of most scholarly fields, the male dominance of virtually every field other than women's studies, the … [Read more...] about A Crowdsourced Survey of Sexual Harassment in the Academy

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

Academia as Identity – a UK/US Comparison

By Karen Kelsky | May 26, 2017

Kellee and I have done speaking tours in the UK for two years now, and the time we spent there has been immensely valuable for us, in learning what parts of the academic experience are shared between the UK and the US, and what parts diverge.  There … [Read more...] about Academia as Identity – a UK/US Comparison

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

How to Write a Recommendation Letter

By Karen Kelsky | September 7, 2016

The wonderful Shit Academic Say (@AcademicsSay) retweeted a hilarious parody of American vs. British recommendation letters this week. (December 8, 2016) It's so painfully accurate that it immediately brought back traumatic memories of my … [Read more...] about How to Write a Recommendation Letter

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing Tagged With: How to write a recommendation letter

Why Your Job Cover Letter Sucks (and what you can do to fix it)

By Karen Kelsky | August 26, 2016

An expanded and updated version of this post can now be found in Chapter  22 of my new book, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job. I am keeping a shortened version here, but for the complete discussion … [Read more...] about Why Your Job Cover Letter Sucks (and what you can do to fix it)

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: academic job cover letter, academic job market help, academic job search help, applying for academic jobs, applying for professor job, applying for university job, getting a tenure track job, getting faculty job, higher education job, how to fix your cover letter, how to get a professor job, how to get a tenure track job, how to write a job cover letter, tenure track job cover letter, the academic job search, what do search committees look for, why can't I get a tenure track job

“You’re so Lucky…” and the Job Market – An Anonymous Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | May 27, 2016

An anonymous guest post.  Read this in conjunction with the piece that just came out this week on Chronicle Vitae, "The 'Joy' of Pregnancy in Graduate School."  I think it relates more broadly to the larger hostility to the idea of "wellness" also, … [Read more...] about “You’re so Lucky…” and the Job Market – An Anonymous Guest Post

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Intersectional Analyses, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Thoughts from the UK and Denmark

By Karen Kelsky | May 14, 2016

Kellee and I are heading into the final week of our month in the UK and Europe!  We've had an absolutely amazing journey so far.   We visited the Universities of Aberdeen (thank you, Amy Bryzgel), where I did a talk on the US job market, and an … [Read more...] about Thoughts from the UK and Denmark

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

We’re All In the Same Boat

By Karen Kelsky | May 1, 2016

The European tour is going splendidly!  So far I've spoken at University of Aberdeen (2 events by me:  Hacking the US Academic Job Market, Academic Leadership for Women; 1 event by Kellee Weinhold: The US Academic Interview), at University of St. … [Read more...] about We’re All In the Same Boat

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, International Perspectives, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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