By Martha Lincoln, Ph.D. Earlier this spring, I got hired to a tenure-track position at my dream department. After some celebrating, I started to strategize for the next steps of my career. I took a webinar with Dr. Karen - Surviving Your … [Read more...] about Cancer on the Tenure Track – an invited guest post
Work/Life Balance in Academia
#JobMarketRitual – Guest Post by Kellee Weinhold
by Kellee Weinhold, TPII Productivity Coach and Interview Intervention Coach One of the remnants of my life as a journalism professor is attending to the success and failure of advertising campaigns. I wasn’t in the field of advertising, but many … [Read more...] about #JobMarketRitual – Guest Post by Kellee Weinhold
“You’re so Lucky…” and the Job Market – An Anonymous Guest Post
An anonymous guest post. Read this in conjunction with the piece that just came out this week on Chronicle Vitae, "The 'Joy' of Pregnancy in Graduate School." I think it relates more broadly to the larger hostility to the idea of "wellness" also, … [Read more...] about “You’re so Lucky…” and the Job Market – An Anonymous Guest Post
Dance, Dance, Revolution
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
Work-Life Balance? Post 1 of Many
This was originally posted in 2011. As you can see from the title, at the time I expected to write a lot more posts about work-life balance. I'm just getting to that now, in 2016! Since opening The Professor Is In, the question I've been most … [Read more...] about Work-Life Balance? Post 1 of Many
Is the Academy Good?
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?
The Genuine Job Search (Out-Ac post by Karen Cardozo)
by Karen Cardozo If you’ve been following my posts, you know that I am a major proponent of a both/and approach. This proclivity emerges in my bio as an interdisciplinary or, more precisely, an undisciplined scholar: through years of academic … [Read more...] about The Genuine Job Search (Out-Ac post by Karen Cardozo)
Heroic Mother Teaches Class With Sick Child – Guest Post
(This is not a post-ac post, as I normally put up on Mondays. But it's a great guest post and I wanted to share it right away.) It's by Stephanie Brown. Stephanie is cultural anthropologist and adjunct instructor in the Department of Human … [Read more...] about Heroic Mother Teaches Class With Sick Child – Guest Post
Making Good Choices in an Ugly Time
It a brutally ugly time to be an American. I am enraged, furious, heartbroken, grief-stricken at the racist mass murder at AME Church in Charleston, and at the shameful, hateful, self-serving denial of racism as motive by the media and white … [Read more...] about Making Good Choices in an Ugly Time
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