The Early-Career Scholar

There is plenty of stress after tenure — different from the up-or-out pressures you experience before tenure, but intense in its own way.

It’s hard enough to get a tenure-track job now, but your odds are even longer with too many of the wrong kinds of publications.

Yes, it’s still summer, but if you’re beginning a new faculty post this fall, it’s time to start preparing for what’s coming.

Compiling a tenure file forces you to confront who you are and what you’ve done, and to reimagine who you want to become.

It’s difficult to resist the pressures to overwork since that is often the only path to tenure.

The academic year is just underway, and it’s already time to consider whether to go back on the faculty job market.

Many academics spend 60 percent of their time on tasks that go unrecognized. Don’t let it happen to you.

To reach tenure, you must survive the pressures of life as an advanced assistant professor.

It’s not uncommon for early-career academics to lose professional ground because of family obligations.

It helps to choose the right scholarly meeting, and to swallow your discomfort with schmoozing.

What to consider as you attempt to persuade book editors to give you a contract.

An emphasis on diversity, in all its forms, is reshaping faculty roles and academic culture.

Search committees have to comb through dozens of pages in each candidate’s application. Here’s how we do it, and what we’re looking for.

Even in a weak academic job market, you should carefully consider where you want to work and what sort of job you actually want.

The person you present during your two-day visit is the person the search committee will assume you to be.