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Mental Health and Academia

What Happens After You’ve Gotten All the A’s – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | May 17, 2019

By Dr. Tyia Grange Isaacson Dr. Tyia Grange Isaacson, LCSW, PhD is a clinician in private practice working in Berkeley, CA and globally via telehealth. She has a specialty of working with PhD students.  Tyia is sharing a series of guest blog posts … [Read more...] about What Happens After You’ve Gotten All the A’s – Guest Post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Mental Health and Academia, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Navigating Grad School with BPD – WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | May 10, 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 Navigating Grad School with BPD – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Mental Health and Academia, Women of Color 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

A Personal Note From Karen

By Karen Kelsky | November 5, 2018

I want to offer a personal note. I've had an extraordinarily difficult year. My teenage son has struggled with mental health challenges that have required constant attention as well as constant travel, along with a profound reevaluation of my family … [Read more...] about A Personal Note From Karen

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit

Dance, Dance, Revolution

By Karen Kelsky | April 15, 2016

Years ago, the gender studies program at my university hosted a Latin American female hip hop group, who gave a roundtable on women and rap in Latin America on campus, and then a live concert.  The roundtable was great, but I'll never, to the day I … [Read more...] about Dance, Dance, Revolution

Filed Under: Mental Health and Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Self-Criticism and the Academy — Postac Post by Jessica Langer

By Karen Kelsky | March 29, 2016

by Post-ac Career Coach Jessica Langer Academia is a climate of constant and unrelenting criticism. This is obvious in a professional sense: our work is often called "criticism" as a catch-all, and in the process of building upon our … [Read more...] about Self-Criticism and the Academy — Postac Post by Jessica Langer

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame

Is the Academy Good?

By Karen Kelsky | December 11, 2015

I've had two huge changes in my life in the past two years.  The first is, I've started dancing in earnest. The second is, I've started meditating.  These have both completely transformed my life.  Dancing has allowed me to move from my brain (the … [Read more...] about Is the Academy Good?

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Mental Health and Academia, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing

Buy My Book!

By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2015

Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form--only $11.40!  Available for pre-order now--comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For bulk orders for use … [Read more...] about Buy My Book!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, Tenure--How To Get It, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

EnGendering Confidence – Part 1 (Cardozo #postac post)

By Karen Kelsky | January 19, 2015

by Karen Cardozo When people ask what the Alt/Post-Ac consultants do, we usually describe a range of services: self-assessment and job-searching strategies, document generation and editing, mock interviews, etc.  Yet the more I work with this … [Read more...] about EnGendering Confidence – Part 1 (Cardozo #postac post)

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame

Job Market PTSD

By Karen Kelsky | April 18, 2014

RE-posted from 2011.  When this went up the first time, it got very little response.  That surprised me.  I think this is a real thing.  Readers? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's post is another Special Request post, this time coming from Kate, who … [Read more...] about Job Market PTSD

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Mental Health and Academia, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

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