• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

The Professor Is In

Guidance for all things PhD: Graduate School, Job Market and Careers

  • Home
    • Testimonials
    • Intervention Testimonials
    • Gift Certificates
  • Academic Job Help
    • Services Overview
    • Job Document Editing
    • The Art of the Academic Cover Letter
    • The Art of the Academic CV
    • Quick Job Document Editing
    • Interviews, Job Talks, Teaching Demos and Campus Visits
    • Personal Negotiating Assistance
    • Tenure and Promotion Statement Assistance
    • Article/Chapter Manuscript Editing
    • Current Specials
  • Institutions
  • Career Coaching
    • One-on-One Career Consults
    • Tenure Denial Consultations
    • CV Strategizing Service
    • Pre-Tenure Coaching Group
    • Graduate School Application Assistance
  • Productivity
    • Unstuck: The Art of Productivity
    • The Art of the Article
    • Article/Chapter Manuscript Editing
    • How To …
    • Productivity Coaching
    • Free Productivity Webinars
  • Professor Is Out
    • Welcome Video
    • Leaving Academia Support
    • Our Art of Leaving Program
    • Leaving Academia On-Demand Webinars
    • Prof is OUT Client Testimonials
    • It’s OK to Quit
  • Webinars
    • University Workshops & Events
    • Upcoming Live Webinars
    • On-Demand Webinars
  • Blog
  • Merch!

Marginalized Voices

Missing Mentors: Why Young Academics Feel Lost in the Ivory Tower, and How Experienced Faculty Can Help – WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | April 19, 2019

I am delighted to offer another guest post in my series of contributed posts by black women and other women of color. If you’d like to submit a post or an idea for a post for consideration, email me at gettenure@gmail.com. I pay $150 for accepted … [Read more...] about Missing Mentors: Why Young Academics Feel Lost in the Ivory Tower, and How Experienced Faculty Can Help – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Intersectional Analyses, Marginalized Voices, Racism in the Academy, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Women of Color in Academia

#MakeupMonday: “Dressing Like a Congresswoman”

By Karen Kelsky | January 8, 2019

Twitter lost it when AOC and all the other magnificent women of color were sworn in to the House last week. This Tweet in particular: It prompted so much wonderful commentary. Here is Maiysha Kai in The Root: "Indeed, as we’ve … [Read more...] about #MakeupMonday: “Dressing Like a Congresswoman”

Filed Under: Makeup, Marginalized Voices, Women of Color in Academia

#MakeupMonday: Unapologetically “Too Ethnic” for STEM (And On a Budget) WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | December 17, 2018

I am delighted to offer another guest post in my series of contributed posts by black women and other women of color. If you’d like to submit a post or an idea for a post for consideration, email me at gettenure@gmail.com. I pay $150 for accepted … [Read more...] about #MakeupMonday: Unapologetically “Too Ethnic” for STEM (And On a Budget) WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Makeup, Marginalized Voices, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Women of Color in Academia

A Tale of Two Conferences

By Karen Kelsky | November 24, 2018

I am just back from a back-to-back conference trip, first to the American Anthropological Association conference in San Jose, and then on to Denver for the American Academy of Religion. At each conference I spoke on the postacademic transition. I … [Read more...] about A Tale of Two Conferences

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, How To Do Conferences, Marginalized Voices, Post-Ac Job Search

An Open Letter to the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware – WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | November 2, 2018

I am delighted to offer another guest post in my series of contributed posts by black women and other women of color. If you’d like to submit a post or an idea for a post for consideration, email me at gettenure@gmail.com. I pay $150 for accepted … [Read more...] about An Open Letter to the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: #MeTooPhD, Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Marginalized Voices, Racism in the Academy, Women of Color in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Banish These Words: Sexism and Binarism Edition – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

By Karen Kelsky | September 21, 2018

By Dr. Maggie Levantovskaya Maggie Levantovskaya is one of our TPII editors, and a writer and adjunct professor based in the Bay Area. Let’s talk about sexist language in job application materials. I read countless cover letters, teaching … [Read more...] about Banish These Words: Sexism and Binarism Edition – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

Filed Under: Advising Advice, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Marginalized Voices, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

#MakeupMonday: Finding My Asian American Mirrors – WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | September 11, 2018

I'm delighted to present another guest post in my series by black women and other women of color.  I always want more!  Please submit a post or an idea for a post for consideration, at gettenure@gmail.com. I pay $150 for accepted posts. The posts can … [Read more...] about #MakeupMonday: Finding My Asian American Mirrors – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Makeup, Marginalized Voices, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Encountering Racism in the Faculty Lounge – WOC Guest Post

By Guest Author | August 30, 2018

I am delighted to offer another guest post contributed in response to my recent call for contributions to the blog by black women and other women of color. If you’d like to submit a post or an idea for a post for consideration, email me at … [Read more...] about Encountering Racism in the Faculty Lounge – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Marginalized Voices, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Women of Color in Academia

Tales of a Tenured Woman of Color in the Deep South – WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | August 17, 2018

I am delighted to offer another guest post contributed in response to my recent call for contributions to the blog by black women and other women of color. If you’d like to submit a post or an idea for a post for consideration, email me at … [Read more...] about Tales of a Tenured Woman of Color in the Deep South – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Marginalized Voices, Racism in the Academy, Women of Color in Academia

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5

Primary Sidebar

Latest From the Blog

  • 52 Career Actions: Week 19: Submit a Piece for Publication
  • 52 Career Actions: Week 18: Prepare a Writing Sample Portfolio

2026 Update Out Now! (It has the gold “Revised & Updated” sticker)

Get Immediate Help

In addition to our blog and book, we have upcoming live webinars, pre-recorded webinars and other programs that you can get started on right away:

The Art of the Academic Cover Letter
The Art of the Article
Unstuck: The Art of Productivity
Quick Reviews
Free Productivity Webinars

Categories

  • #MeTooPhD
  • 52 Career Actions
  • Academic Job Search
    • How To Choose and Manage Recommenders
    • How to Interview
    • How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters
    • How To Write CVs
    • Landing Your Tenure Track Job
    • Major Job Market Mistakes
    • Negotiating Offers
  • Adjunct Issues
  • Advising Advice
  • Alt-University Critique
  • Black Lives Matter
  • COVID19
  • Disability in Academia
  • Dispatches
  • Goodbye Ivory Towers
  • Graduate Student Concerns
    • Bad Advisors and Good Mentors
  • How To Do Conferences
  • How to Get Grants and Fellowships
  • International Perspectives
  • Intersectional Analyses
  • Makeup
  • Marginalized Voices
  • Mental Health and Academia
  • Outliers Books
  • Ph.D. Poverty
  • Podcast
  • Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business
  • Post-Ac Job Search
    • Careers Outside
  • Postdoc Issues
  • Productivity
    • Book Proposals and Contracts
    • Publishing Issues
    • Writing
  • Promote Yourself!
  • Quitting–An Excellent Option
  • Racism in the Academy
  • Rearview Mirror
  • Resumes & Postac Docs
  • Sexual Harassment in the Academy
  • Shame
  • Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student
  • Strategizing Your Success in Academia
  • Teaching and Research Statements
  • Teaching Demos
  • Teaching Portfolios
  • Tenure–How To Get It
    • How To Build Your Tenure File
    • Surviving Assistant Professorhood
  • The Campus Visit
  • Unstuck
  • Webinars
  • What Not To Wear
  • WIP Hacks
  • Women of Color in Academia
  • Work/Life Balance in Academia
  • Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
  • Your Second and Third Jobs

Footer

About Us

  • Who Is Dr. Karen?
  • Who Is On the TPII Team?
  • In The News
  • Contact Me
  • FAQs
    • Why Trust Me?
  • Testimonials

Community

  • #MeTooPhD
  • Peer Editing
  • PhD Debt Survey
  • Support Fund
  • I Help With Custody Cases for Academics

Copyright © 2026 The Professor Is In·