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Carol Stabile on Campus Rape Culture. This is not the kind of thing you usually find on career advice websites, but it is perhaps one of the most important things you can read.
Part of being a professional academic will likely involve encountering it at some point. And part of being a responsible scholar will involve standing up to some form of male domination at some point. The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc. This is not a typical career advice column or a typical case. Yet, a lot of what she writes is quite applicable to anyone in a high-powered junior job with lots of pressure to perform in one way or another.
New Faculty Majority. Their Facebook page seems to be more active than their website. This is a nice, short, to-the-point list of things to do when you decide to stop pursuing a traditional academic career. Very interesting reading. Definitely not your normal article on happiness and graduate school!
On the continued over-citation of cis-, hetero-, white men by communication scholars. This paper grew out of a discussion among the first three coauthors at ICA, and a general problem feminists have noted for some time. I came on later in the process and added a few things, but deserve the least credit of the four coauthors. The essay documents the extent of the problem, and offers some potential solutions. Tl;dr: stop letting people pass comps, publish papers and books, and offer syllabi with all white-male or nearly-all white male bibliographies.
Or at least require a justification. Media studies as a field is heavily Eurocentric. I will write more on this in the future. You may want to surf the humanities and social science listings anyway, since sometimes appropriate jobs come up there as well. Note that the Chronicle does NOT archive, so check the site regularly I believe stuff now stays up there for a month. But everything in the print copy of the chronicle for that week is also on their site.
Also, there is now a feature where you can have them email you every time job listings appear in a particular category. Very handy! Way to go NCA! The title says it all. I recommend a full surfing of their listings, which are updated weekly and archived. Newsletter of the International Communication Association.
It is not, however, encyclopedic. They can also be incredibly useful for seeing what jobs are available—one of my colleagues believes they are currently the most complete resource in our field.
These are collective resources to counter the vast abyss that your job application enters between the day you drop off the letter and the day you get the interview or the rejection letter.
NOTES: 1 the link address changes each year and 2 the site now features extremely annoying pop up ads in the lower left hand corner. Universities to Fear. On the one hand, this is a super-useful resource. On the other, stories are unverified and largely personal. For instance, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign entry features evidence from a single blog post from Karen Kelsky about her time there. Her experience is so different from mine we might as well have been at different schools.
All this is to say the site is the most useful when it is the most specific and confirmed see, e. Again, I recommend surfing their listings, rather than spending a lot of time trying to land a gig in American Studies. This link takes you to their home page. This is hardly an exhaustive list, but it should help get you started. If you know about job markets outside the US and want to suggest some links, drop me a line jonathan [at] sterneworks [dot] org.
University Affairs. Canadian Association of University Teachers. CAUT has also re-launched academicwork. Times Higher Education Supplement. Academic Transfer International. Academic, hospital and other vacancies relevant to people with advanced degrees. Academic Jobs EU. I would welcome suggestions for links to job listings in other countries, especially Australia, New Zealand and other Anglophone countries.
A number of professional services have come into their own over the past few years. National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. They provide coaching and mentoring around planning, productivity, relationships and work-life balance. I first learned of it maybe a decade ago when Kerry Ann Rockquemore was running it, and everyone who went through their writing training sang its praises. Manuscript Works.
Laura Portwood-Stacer helps scholars develop books, book proposals, and plans for getting published. The Professor Is In. Karen Kelsky exists because of so much bad advising, and she provides a needed service. And she is also on the right side of discussions of academic labour and the casualization of the professoriate, university sexism and sexual harassment, structural racism in the academy, ableism, and other issues academics face.
Her blog has helpful tips on interviewing, job searching, managing emotions, and all sorts of other things. She circulates funny memes on social media. The Society for Cinema and Media Studies. This link takes you to their job network. They post job listnings as they come up, or you can subscribe to a listserv to receive updates as they appear. I was able to procure this service for free in , but they have since started charging for membership grad students pay less than faculty.
I am seriously going to write to the executive board about this.
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