Cardozo / Kearns / Palma Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-61249-897-3
Verlag: Purdue University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 374 Seiten

Reihe: Navigating Careers in Higher Education

Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate is one of the first collections to explore PhD career versatility within higher education. The twenty-three contributors represent diverse disciplines, institution types, professional roles, and intersectional identities. Each thoughtful and personal essay explores firsthand what it means to remain in higher education, yet not in the traditional role of a professor. Topics include establishing new career paradigms, well-being and work-life balance, blended roles and identities, and professional work around advocacy and inclusion. Unifying the essays is the idea that career diversity is intertwined with other diversity discourse, yielding a broad-based but critical examination of careers in higher education administration.

Though the doctoral landscape continues to change, a self-determined, values-driven attitude remains essential. This book offers powerful insight into cultural and structural barriers that inhibit institutional transformation and obscure the real range of PhD futures. Frank about both challenges and opportunities, these essays reveal how letting go of “track” thinking opens a constellation of possibilities and many paths to meaningful work and a fulfilling life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cardozo, Karen

Kearns, Katherine

Palma, Shannan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Natalie Lundsteen

Introduction: Navigating Disruption, Redefining Success, by Karen Cardozo, Katherine Kearns, and Shannan Palma

PART 1: CREATING, FINDING, AND OPENING CAREER DOORS

1 Let’s Stop Saying “Career Path”: Meandering Through a Career in Academia, by David A. McDonald

2 “This Isn’t What I Thought It Would Be”: Building New Identities and Skills in the Academy, by Heather Dwyer and Katharine P. Walsh

3 Getting from Here to There: Navigating Career Crossroads as a Black Woman Scientist, by Diedra M. Wrighting

4 Contingencies and Possibilities, by Alyssa Stalsberg Canelli

PART 2: INTER/DISCIPLINARY TRANSFER

5 Applied Humanities at Work in STEM Graduate Education, by Jessica A. Hutchins

6 From Humanities Tenure Track to Medical School Communications, by Leigh Tillman Partington

7 PhDs Going Rogue: From the Bench to the Library and Beyond, by Stacey E. Wahl and Carrie L. Iwema

8 Finding Neverland: From Chimpanzee Research to Career Services, by Sarah K. Barks

PART 3: CRAFTING BLENDED POSITIONS AND IDENTITIES

9 Embracing Both/And: Reflections from a Boundary-Spanning Pracademic, by Barbara Jacoby

10 On Our Own Terms: Becoming an Independent Researcher and Writer, by Lee Skallerup Bessette

11 Ambivalent in a Good Way: On Both Staying In and Leaving Academia, by Clare Forstie

12 From Stuck to Satisfied: Creating a Joyful, Balanced Life, by Kristine Lodge

PART 4: CENTERING PERSONAL VALUES, CULTIVATING WORK–LIFE FULFILLMENT

13 Finding Your Place, Finding Your Voice, by Alexis Boyer

14 Well-Being as a Guiding Light Toward a Fulfilling Career, by Kristine M. Sikora

15 Embracing Uncertainty: Following My Values Toward a Career in Faculty Development, by Ryan Rideau

PART 5: NAVIGATING INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND CULTURES

16 Horizontal Mentoring: The Positive Impact of a Diverse Graduate Student Professional Development Community, by Marisella Rodriguez and Sarah Silverman

17 When One Door Closes, Another Door . . . Also Closes: The Rewards and Challenges of Work in

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, by Jacob McWilliams

18 Cultivating Community as an Administrator, by Sarah Chobot Hokanson

19 Queering Careers: LGBTQ+ Advocacy on Campus and Beyond, by Kimberly Creasap and Dorian Rhea Debussy

Afterword: Fostering Career Versatility in PhD Education, by Trevor M. Verrot

Appendix A. PhD Characteristics of Essay Contributors

Appendix B. Current Employment Characteristics of Essay Contributors

Appendix C. Personal Identities of Essay Contributors

Annotated Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cardozo, Karen
Karen Cardozo is the founder of Leap Here Consulting, providing consulting, coaching, and editing services for individuals and institutions since 2016. First trained in career services, she earned a master’s degree in higher education administration at Harvard and a PhD in literary studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She worked across the Five College Consortium before gaining tenure in interdisciplinary studies at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, then leading career development at Hollins and Northeastern universities. She has published intersectional feminist studies of culture, labor, science, trauma, and higher education in the American Studies Journal, Critical Sociology, Journal of Asian American Studies, Pedagogy, Profession, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Kearns, Katherine
Katherine Kearns is the assistant vice provost for Student Development and director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs for the University Graduate School at Indiana University Bloomington. She earned her PhD in ecology at the University of Georgia. She is a coeditor of the book Teaching as if Learning Matters: Pedagogies of Becoming by Next-Generation Faculty. Currently, she focuses on cultivating graduate student communities—especially for students with marginalized identities—that promote well-being and skill development in scholarly and creative activity, teaching, and preparation for careers in a variety of post-degree professions.

Palma, Shannan
Shannan Palma is co-executive director of the Autistic Self-Reliance Support Network and vice president of continuing education for HER Academy. She earned her PhD in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from Emory University. Her research has been published in Marvels & Tales: The Journal of Fairy-tale Studies and various edited volumes. She has appeared on numerous panels advising graduate students on industry and higher education careers beyond the professoriate.