PhD & Post-Ac
Dear Job Searchers: Don’t Forget to Have Fun
I recently had coffee with a friend before going to see the Oscar-nominated animation short films.
PhD & Post-Ac
Several of the writers finished history PhDs as the academic job market kept shrinking, and they wrote about it plainly. Here are the posts on whether there are too many PhDs, how to find a mentor, what the gig economy of adjunct teaching does to people, and what a career built partly or wholly outside the university can look like.
There is no single answer in these posts, and no sales pitch either. Some authors stayed close to the classroom, some moved into archives, grants and consulting, and some wrote trade books.
PhD & Post-Ac
Going Home
Facebook’s been reminding me that it’s been eight years since I defended my dissertation and got my job.
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From Dissertation to Book
After my defense—at 11:30AM on the day of the solar eclipse in 2017—, I felt a change in the cosmos.
PhD & Post-Ac
A SmartWomen’s Year in Review: Transition (Part IV)
Thank goodness for this obligation opportunity to reflect. And it really is an opportunity. Because meditating on your experiences and coming up…
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Relationality: Intermingling at Academic Conferences
Thanksgiving is upon us. Hopefully, for all of us, this will be a week of good cheer, warm reunions, and full stomachs.
PhD & Post-Ac
A Career Shift, A New Project
I recently read an article on taking time to mourn during career transitions . When your identity is so deeply tied to work and to the…
PhD & Post-Ac
On the Virtues of (Feminist) Mentorship in Academia
While I was sitting out on my friend’s back porch the other day, I knew I had struck gold. The two of us were deep in conversation about my recent…
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Woman on a Mission: My Search for Community in an Academic Gig Economy
The trajectory of my career has been driven by the firm belief that access to education in the arts should not be a luxury and my pursuit of this…
PhD & Post-Ac
The Long Twinge of Grief of the Left-Behind
In his novel Paper Towns , author-historian-vlogger-nerdfighter-extraordinaire John Green writes that “It is so hard to leave—until you leave.
PhD & Post-Ac
Looking Out For Yourself in the Academic Gig Economy
Note: want to write with us? See this post and apply by March 10! When you have a salaried academic job, your tasks could fall roughly into two…
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The Rearview Mirror and the Road Ahead, One year After my Dissertation
Author’s Note: This week I am out sick with the flu, so in lieu of a regular post, I am re-posting an essay I wrote for the blog, Un/Settled –…
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Lost and Found: A Post-ac’s Book List
In this week’s blog post I want to share some of the books that have helped me through the 2-year transition between receiving my PhD in art…
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On Professional Generosity: a How-To Networking Guide for Writers, Educators, and Academics
I have just returned from Charleston, juiced up from one of the most thoughtfully constructed conferences I’ve attended in a long while.
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Emotional Juggling Act
For the last week, I have been busy working on a new business project with my husband called Super Nature Adventures that I plan to launch this month.
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Too Many PhDs?
We don’t have any right admitting PhD candidates when there aren’t any jobs for them. In the past month, I’ve been in this conversation at least…
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From PhD to Here: Towards a Life outside of Academia
This May will mark my second #withaphd anniversary, and with it, the second year since I began to move away from academia and towards some kind of…
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Three Tricks to Finishing that Dissertation
Anyone who has completed a PhD dissertation, or who is currently in the throes of completing one knows what it’s like- It’s this marathon writing…