One of my primary goals in the revised edition of The Professor Is In was to make its advice responsive to diverse identities around race, sexuality, class, and above all, disability. To that end, I read deeply in disability studies literature, and … [Read more...] about Interview with Margaret Price Part 2: “Being Fucked With”
Intersectional Analyses
Interview with Margaret Price Part 1 – No Illusions
One of my primary goals in the revised edition of The Professor Is In was to make its advice responsive to diverse identities around race, sexuality, class, and above all, disability. To that end, I read deeply in disability studies literature, and … [Read more...] about Interview with Margaret Price Part 1 – No Illusions
Academic Auto-Depreciation – Guest Post by Deepa Das Acevedo
Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist, a tenured associate professor at Emory University School of Law, and Editor-in-Chief of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. For the last five years, her research on work law topics has led her … [Read more...] about Academic Auto-Depreciation – Guest Post by Deepa Das Acevedo
Black* Students’ Labor as “Race Experts” in the Classroom – Guest Post
By Bedelia Richards Bio: Bedelia Nicola Richards, PhD is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Richmond. Her scholarship is motivated by the desire to transform higher education … [Read more...] about Black* Students’ Labor as “Race Experts” in the Classroom – Guest Post
How White People Weaponize “Expertise” in Conversations about Race(ism) – Guest Post
By Dr. Bedelia Richards Bio: Bedelia Nicola Richards, PhD is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Richmond. Her scholarship is motivated by the desire to transform higher … [Read more...] about How White People Weaponize “Expertise” in Conversations about Race(ism) – Guest Post
Shirking for Fun and Profit – a Manifesto
Our last post was a guest post about Weaponized Incompetence in Academia. The author, Susan Cholette, wrote:"Do you find yourself pulling together the materials for the multi-section introductory course tutoring site because your fellow instructor … [Read more...] about Shirking for Fun and Profit – a Manifesto
Trans on the Job Market: a Crowdsource Post
A reader wrote in to raise the issue of "what to wear" for trans folks on the academic job market, and we decided to make a crowdsourcing post. Reader noted that my old "How to Dress for an Interview as a Butch Dyke" post is sorely outdated (I … [Read more...] about Trans on the Job Market: a Crowdsource Post
Regarding bell hooks
bell hooks did not write for me. She did not write for white women. White people were not excluded--her spirit and intellect were too capacious for that. We could learn from her, and many did. But we weren't the priority in any way. Her priority, … [Read more...] about Regarding bell hooks
A Year of “Reckoning”: On Geographers (Not) Doing Abolition – Guest Post
By: The Graduate Geographers’ Collective (1) Introduction Amidst the COVID19 pandemic, the New York Times declared that the national protests against police brutality, and specifically against Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd, … [Read more...] about A Year of “Reckoning”: On Geographers (Not) Doing Abolition – Guest Post
The Professor Is In Top 12 Books About Academia
A podcast listener wrote today to ask if I have a list of favorite books about academia. The query made me realize: I DO have a list of books to which I return over and over for advice and insight, but I've never written about it. So without further … [Read more...] about The Professor Is In Top 12 Books About Academia