Get a Life, PhD

Faculty job postings are increasingly asking for diversity statements, in addition to research and teaching statements. According to the Uni...

This is a guest post by Inga Chira. Dr. Chira joined the faculty at California State University, Northridge in 2015 as an Assistant Profes...

As you wrote your dissertation and searched for your first faculty job, your dissertation adviser was (I hope) there for you. He read countl...

There has been a lot of talk going around the Internet lately about how difficult it is to be a parent – particularly a mother – and an acad...

In August, I will be moving to a new academic position – I will be an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merc...

It’s summertime and the living is pretty…. Or, at least it should be! How can you have a remarkably productive summer and return to t...

Have you ever heard that quote: “Behind every successful man, there stands a woman”? I have often thought about that quote in relation to my...

Most academics I talk to this time of year are looking forward to summer, when classes are over, meetings are few and far between and we hav...

Why would an untenured professor open up and actively use a Facebook account? There seems to be a lot of buzz going around about the pitfall...