by Karen Cardozo In my last post I talked about an endemic lack of confidence as the structured byproduct of academic training – one that reveals itself most clearly at the point when PhDs contemplate changing careers. In an interdisciplinary … [Read more...] about EnGendering Confidence: Part 2 – Cardozo
Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Taking Baby to Conference: A Crowdsource Project
On Facebook in November, I posted this query: “A reader wonders about taking baby to conference: "I'm particularly interested to know if people (grad students in particular) walked around with their babies or if they kept them hidden away (oy). … [Read more...] about Taking Baby to Conference: A Crowdsource Project
How To Tailor a Job Letter (Without Flattering, Pandering, or Begging)
An expanded and updated version of this post can now be found in Chapter 23 of my new book, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job. I am keeping a shortened version here, but for the complete discussion including … [Read more...] about How To Tailor a Job Letter (Without Flattering, Pandering, or Begging)
How to Plan Your Research and Writing Trajectory on the Tenure Track
This is a re-post. Various readers and clients are looking ahead to the new jobs they are starting in the fall, and I want you all to have a very firm handle on the nature of a tenure track research trajectory. This post is written from the … [Read more...] about How to Plan Your Research and Writing Trajectory on the Tenure Track
Rape Threats Revisited
Most folks active in the academic blogosphere are aware of the nightmarish situation that developed over the past week around Sarah Kendzior and rape threats she received, and the insanely escalating blizzard of abuse directed at her upon Jacobin … [Read more...] about Rape Threats Revisited
Why You Need a 5-Year Plan
This is a re-post of a previously published post. In the wind-down weeks of Spring, we will focus on big-picture planning for your career trajectory in the immediate and longer term. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I trained my own Ph.D. students, I … [Read more...] about Why You Need a 5-Year Plan
Campus Visit While Breastfeeding (A Guest Post)
I just accepted my dream academic position at a research-intensive university, with only two years before I can go up for tenure (they're counting my whole publication record, including articles published while at my first T-T position). I'm … [Read more...] about Campus Visit While Breastfeeding (A Guest Post)
When I Left the Academy I Felt Like I Had Died (A Guest Post)
An email-turned-guest post from a former client. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This year, as a postdoc, both the NIH fellowship and the NSF grant I wrote were funded, and one of my papers was shortlisted for the Outstanding Paper of the … [Read more...] about When I Left the Academy I Felt Like I Had Died (A Guest Post)
The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make in Academic Settings
[Repost from the TPII archives] I frequently offer the workshop: "Yes You Can! Women and Graduate School." It's a workshop I led quite a few times in different forms, formally and informally, over the course of my years in academia. Sometimes it … [Read more...] about The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make in Academic Settings
On Leaving the Cult (A Letter From a Client)
I get a pretty regular stream of fan mail from clients and readers, and I read all of it, respond to all of it, and deeply appreciate all of it. When I get a letter from someone telling me how the reading the blog and/or working with me changed … [Read more...] about On Leaving the Cult (A Letter From a Client)