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Mental Illness and Academia

#Dispatches: How’s Your Mental Health? Part 2 of 2

By Karen Kelsky | November 30, 2020

#Dispatches From the Frontlines series crowdsources questions to get a broad indication of how our readers are coping with various challenges. The question this week:  How’s your mental health? Have you found anything that helps? Is it impacting your … [Read more...] about #Dispatches: How’s Your Mental Health? Part 2 of 2

Filed Under: Adapting, Coronavirus, COVID19, Dispatches, Mental Illness and Academia

Self-Care: Paint By Numbers Edition

By Karen Kelsky | November 27, 2020

`It's a hard time in the US right now (and in many other regions that have not dealt well with COVID). Add to that the continuing Trumpist pandemonium and right wing assault on all that is good and rational, and the exhaustion of trying to do higher … [Read more...] about Self-Care: Paint By Numbers Edition

Filed Under: Adapting, Coronavirus, COVID19, Mental Illness and Academia, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

Online Education Can Help The Neurodivergent and Disabled- Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | November 16, 2020

  Holly Genovese is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin with portfolios in both Black Studies and Women and Gender Studies. Her work (primarily) focuses on Black cultural and artistic … [Read more...] about Online Education Can Help The Neurodivergent and Disabled- Guest Post

Filed Under: Adapting, Advising Advice, COVID19, Graduate Student Concerns, Mental Illness and Academia, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Mental Health Guidance for Graduate Students during COVID-19 – Therapist Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | April 15, 2020

By Dr. Tyia Grange Isaacson. Dr. Grange Isaacson is a training and supervising analyst with a private practice in Berkeley, California and via telehealth.  She has a subspecialty working with graduate students. Tyia holds a Ph.D in contemporary … [Read more...] about Mental Health Guidance for Graduate Students during COVID-19 – Therapist Guest Post

Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID19, Mental Illness and Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

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

By Karen Kelsky | May 17, 2019

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 highlighting some common … [Read more...] about What Happens After You’ve Gotten All the A’s – Guest Post

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

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