{"product_id":"the-academics-handbook-fourth-edition-9781478011118","title":"The Academics Handbook Fourth Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn recent years, the academy has undergone significant changes: a more competitive and volatile job market has led to widespread precarity, teaching and service loads have become more burdensome, and higher education is becoming increasingly corporatized. In this revised and expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Academic''s Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e, more than fifty contributors from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds offer practical advice for academics at every career stage, whether they are first entering the job market or negotiating the post-tenure challenges of leadership and administrative roles. Contributors affirm what is exciting and fulfilling about academic work while advising readers about how to set and protect boundaries around their energy and labor. In addition, the contributors tackle topics such as debates regarding technology, social media, and free speech on campus; publishing and grant writing; attending to the many kinds of diversity among students, staff, and faculty; and how \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With beautifully written, thoughtful, and quite moving selections, this revised and expanded edition of the classic \u003ci\u003eAcademic's Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e is very relevant to contemporary academic life and will find a wide audience across the academy. This excellent book makes an important contribution.” -- Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e“What a phenomenal resource! Lori A. Flores and Jocelyn H. Olcott provide a prismatic and comprehensive picture of graduate education today while foregrounding matters of equity, inclusion, and labor. A wide range of voices provide concrete advice, personal narratives, case studies, and high-level context to the reader as well as fresh tools to navigate the university landscape and life after graduate school.” -- Katina L. Rogers, author of * Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Your Career Arc from Grad School to Retirement\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Tenure-Track Job Search, Start to Finish \/ Karen Kelsky  9\u003cbr\u003e 2. Developing an Academic Identity: Lead with \"You\" \/ Yuridia Ramírez  18\u003cbr\u003e 3. How to Negotiate for a Higher Salary \/ Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott  24\u003cbr\u003e 4. Scholarship and Life off the Tenure Track \/ Bryan Pitts  28\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Danger of Doing Other Things: Why I'm a Scholar but Not an Academic \/ Cynthia R. Greenlee  32\u003cbr\u003e 6. From Contract to Tenure \/ Sylvanna M. Falcón  38\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Few Rules of Thumb about Conference Presentations and Invited Talks \/ Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott  45\u003cbr\u003e 8. Finding My Way in Academia: My Non-Tenure-Track Path to Success in Food Studies \/ Sarah Portnoy  47\u003cbr\u003e 9. Surviving the Dream \/ Sarah Deutsch  56\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Trinity of Academic Life: Research, Teaching, and Service\u003cbr\u003e 10. Applying Successfully for Grants and Fellowships \/ Miroslava Chávez-García, Luis Alvarez, and Ernesto Chávez  71\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Modern Research Library \/ David Hansen and Deborah Jakubs  82\u003cbr\u003e 12. Suggestions for Alleviating IRB Angst \/ James E. Sutton  95\u003cbr\u003e 13. Informed Consent and the Ethics of IRB Research: A Case Study of the Havasupai Tribe's Lawsuit against Genetic Research \/ Nanibaa' A. Garrison  103\u003cbr\u003e 14. Publishing Your Research \/ Rosanna Kathleen Olsen  109\u003cbr\u003e 15. Academic Book Publishing \/ Cathy N. Davidson and Ken Wissoker  118\u003cbr\u003e 16. Holding the Space: Reflections on Small-Class Teaching and Learning \/ Magdalena Mączyńska  142\u003cbr\u003e 17. Teaching the Large Lecture \/ Genevieve Carpio and Neil K. Garg  156\u003cbr\u003e 18. Lessons from the #FergusonSyllabus \/ Marcia Chatelain  165\u003cbr\u003e 19. Creative Approaches to Student Assessment: Structure of an Interdisciplinary Group Project \/ Frederico Freitas, Brenda Elsey, Steven Alvarez, Jeremy Cruz, Romeo Guzmán, Sonia Hernández and Tiffany Jasmin González, Sheila McManus, Laura Portwood-Stacer, and Meghan Roberts  172\u003cbr\u003e 20. Technology in Teaching \/ Laura Harrison  181\u003cbr\u003e 21. Neurodiversity in the Classroom \/ John Elder Robison and Karin Wulf  189\u003cbr\u003e 22. \"Typical Dreamer\": Some Reflections on Teaching, Advising, and Advocating for Undocumented, Veteran, and Nontraditional Students \/ Eladio Bobadilla  193\u003cbr\u003e 23. Understanding Microaggressions \/ Antar Tichavakunda  203\u003cbr\u003e 24. Shifting Borders: Collaborative Teaching and Researching with Students on Latinx Roots in Oregon \/ Lynn Stephen  208\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Florida Prison Education Project \/ Keri Watson  217\u003cbr\u003e 26. So, You Want to Start a College-in-Prison Program? \/ Kathryn J. Fox  221\u003cbr\u003e 27. Service Learning: Doing Development in West Africa \/ Charles Piot  223\u003cbr\u003e 28. Mentoring for Success across the Academic Spectrum \/ Joy Gaston Gayles and Bridget Turner Kelly  232\u003cbr\u003e 29. Anonymous: Making the Best of a Peer Review \/ Sharon P. Holland  240\u003cbr\u003e 30. Questions to Ask Yourself about Requests for Service \/ Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott  247\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Issues in Today's Academy\u003cbr\u003e 31. Navigating Social Media as an Academic \/ Natalia Mehlman Petrzela  255\u003cbr\u003e 32. My Social Media Philosophy in (Roughly) One Thousand Words \/ N. D. B. Connolly  258\u003cbr\u003e 33. Moving beyond Student Teaching Evaluations \/ Michelle Falkoff  261\u003cbr\u003e 34. Work-Family Balance in Academia \/ Lauren Hall-Lew and Heidi Harley  265\u003cbr\u003e 35. Ableism in the Academy—It's What's for Breakfast \/ Stephen Kuusisto  272\u003cbr\u003e 36. Free Speech and Academic Freedom \/ Matthew W. Finkin  274\u003cbr\u003e 37. Contingency \/ Cary Nelson  285\u003cbr\u003e 38. The Corporate University in the Age of Trump \/ David Schultz  295\u003cbr\u003e 39. Making Campus Safer: Academics Fighting Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment \/ Elizabeth Quay Hutchison  302\u003cbr\u003e 40. Decolonizing and Building Community \/ Kelly Fayard  318\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  323\u003cbr\u003e Index  331\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408990118231,"sku":"9781478011118","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478011118.jpg?v=1730504991","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-academics-handbook-fourth-edition-9781478011118","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}