David M. Perry is senior academic adviser in the history department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and formerly a professor of history at Dominican University. His website is at Davidmperry.com. Follow him on Twitter @lollardfish.
Stories by This Author
Advice
Why campus leaders must let faculty and staff members determine how much they work from home.
Advice
Telling students and professors to work remotely, while demanding that all academic staff members come in, sends a clear message about whose health matters.
Advice
Most of us have had at least one encounter with the sort of professors who go out of their way to put us in what they imagine to be our place.
Advice
How a former faculty member came around to the importance of serving his undergraduate “clients.”
Advice
Not only is the form alive and well, but one of its most vibrant subsections is in academe.
First Person
One viral post can vastly magnify your impact as a scholar — that’s good news, not a cause for despair.
The Conversation
A recent New York Times essay that criticizes conferences doesn’t match the experiences of David M. Perry, who says most events re-energize him as a scholar and remind him why he got into academe.
First Person
How a history Ph.D. who was on the tenure-track market ended up in journalism.
The Conversation
David M. Perry on the perils of importing corporate buzzwords to academe.
The Conversation
Nothing we do to change higher education in this country will matter, says David M. Perry, if students are mostly being taught by overworked, underpaid, contingent faculty members.
