Get a Life, PhD

Just over a year ago, I began writing a blog http://tanyagolashboza.blogspot.com . I was embarking on a fourteen month trip abroad with my f...

As anyone up for tenure can attest, the time between your first day as an Assistant Professor and the day you have to submit your tenure fil...

Money is a touchy subject among academics. However, we actually live in the real world and have to make real-life budgetary decisions. And, ...

Summertime is here! For those of us who are not teaching, or who are only teaching for part of the summer, summertime offers weeks or months...

Colleagues often ask me how I am able to publish consistently, to be an effective teacher, and to have a family. I am not sure what the exac...

I had three kids while I was in graduate school, yet managed to finish my MA thesis and PhD in six years. I think that many of the lessons I...

How can you be a successful academic without abandoning your family responsibilities, dumbing down your classes, and over-working yourself t...