Erin Bartram is a historian of religion and gender in 19th-century America and editor of Contingent Magazine.
Stories by This Author
Advice
For Ph.D.s who opt to pursue nonacademic careers, disentangling from scholarly commitments can seem more difficult than completing them.
Advice
Be skeptical of any grass-is-greener hype about your nonacademic career options.
Advice
For Ph.D.s, figuring out how to describe your “transferable skills” is a lot harder than it looks.
From the Archives
Nonacademic hiring is very different from what a Ph.D. is used to, and there’s no shame in recognizing that you find it challenging and even infuriating.
Advice
The permanent departure of a faculty member, contingent or otherwise, has real implications for undergraduates.
Advice
Tips for the advice-givers on how to be helpful when your protégé leaves academe to pursue a nonfaculty career.
The Review
We cope with it in ways that largely erase the people we lose, ignore their pain and grief, and suppress our own.