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Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Romancing the Academy for Fun and Profit, Part II – Novelist Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | November 18, 2021

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By Verity Lowell. Verity Lowell is a professor and occasional curator. She likes imagining and describing a world where art, ambition, and history provide the background for diverse and steamy love stories, mostly about women falling hard for … [Read more...] about Romancing the Academy for Fun and Profit, Part II – Novelist Guest Post

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Racism in the Academy, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Women of Color in Academia

Makeup Monday Returns: Pandemic Lips

By Karen Kelsky | November 15, 2021

There is probably not one day that has gone by in the pandemic where I didn't think about wanting to write a new Makeup Monday blog post. Fact is, makeup is one of my main pandemic coping mechanisms. It's irrational, since there is literally nowhere … [Read more...] about Makeup Monday Returns: Pandemic Lips

Filed Under: Makeup, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

I Hate Dudes Like Bill in The Chair – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | November 12, 2021

By  Tamara MCDr. Tamara MC is an Applied Linguist and Middle Eastern Studies scholar. She researches and writes about women and spirituality, specifically her hybrid identity of growing up simultaneously Jewish and Muslim on a Sufi commune in Texas. … [Read more...] about I Hate Dudes Like Bill in The Chair – Guest Post

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Romancing the Academy for Fun and Profit, Part I – A New Novelist Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | November 9, 2021

By Verity Lowell. Verity Lowell, PhD, is a professor and occasional curator. She likes imagining and describing a world where art, ambition, and history provide the background for diverse and steamy love stories, mostly about women falling hard … [Read more...] about Romancing the Academy for Fun and Profit, Part I – A New Novelist Guest Post

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Bullying in Academia: A Disheartening Q and A

By Karen Kelsky | November 5, 2021

KK: This is a dialogue that happened on Facebook this week. If you ever wanted a window onto academic bullying... this is it. The responses are shared with permission. Where names are listed, commenters actively REQUESTED this for transparency's … [Read more...] about Bullying in Academia: A Disheartening Q and A

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

What Does (Or Should) It Mean to be an “Academic”? ~ Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | November 2, 2021

by Dr. Chris Winstead Chris Winstead is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah State University. He has been on the USU faculty for seventeen years. He was born in North Carolina (USA) in the late mid-20th century, … [Read more...] about What Does (Or Should) It Mean to be an “Academic”? ~ Guest Post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

Picket Lines – The Professor is Zen Guest Post III

By Karen Kelsky | October 8, 2021

  by Esther Freinkel Tishman, PhD, BCC (she/her) Esther Freinkel Tishman, Ph.D, BCC is an ordained Zen teacher, a full-time interfaith chaplain, a scholar of archetypes and religion, and a certified mindfulness instructor. She is also a … [Read more...] about Picket Lines – The Professor is Zen Guest Post III

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Coronavirus, COVID19, Mental Health and Academia, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

Why Is It Always the Historians?

By Karen Kelsky | October 4, 2021

"Why is it always the historians?" I muttered to myself after another little dustup on Twitter, another historian posting some jaunty, gaslighting, evasive, disaster-normalizing, "fellow-historians, give me your best advice for advisees applying to … [Read more...] about Why Is It Always the Historians?

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, COVID19, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Graduate Student Concerns, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The Professor Gets On LinkedIn

By Karen Kelsky | September 13, 2021

Are you looking at the shitshow that is the '21-'22 academic year and saying, no more?  Are you just... done?  If so, you're in good company. Our relatively new, private FB Mutual Support Group, The Professor Is Out, has been around for less than a … [Read more...] about The Professor Gets On LinkedIn

Filed Under: Careers Outside, Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Support Abortion Rights in Texas

By Karen Kelsky | September 3, 2021

I support a woman's right to an abortion. Not "choice" not "healthcare" or other euphemisms. Abortion. Contribute to support folks on the ground in Texas working to defend this right.   … [Read more...] about Support Abortion Rights in Texas

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