David M. Perry
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
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AdviceBuild Your Remote-Work Policy on a Foundation of Trust
Why campus leaders must let faculty and staff members determine how much they work from home. -
Advice
What About the Health of Staff Members?
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
Title Policing and Other Ways Professors Bully the Academic Staff
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
Customer Service Is Misguided in the Classroom but Crucial in Advising
How a former faculty member came around to the importance of serving his undergraduate “clients.” -
Advice
3 Rules of Academic Blogging
Not only is the form alive and well, but one of its most vibrant subsections is in academe. -
First Person
A Medievalist on Savage Love
One viral post can vastly magnify your impact as a scholar — that’s good news, not a cause for despair. -
The Conversation
Save the Academic Conference. It’s How Our Work Blossoms.
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
From Grad School to ‘The Atlantic’
How a history Ph.D. who was on the tenure-track market ended up in journalism. -
The Conversation
Associate Dean of What?
David M. Perry on the perils of importing corporate buzzwords to academe. -
The Conversation
What’s Missing From the Debate on Obama’s Free Community-College Plan
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.
