Stress, Survival, and Success in Academia 2.0
Lessons from Working Inside and Outside of the Academy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17664787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cortney Hughes Rinker (0000-0002-7692-4811, George Mason University, corresponding author), Sheena Nahm (New School) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-43 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/praa.35.1.m03u118587530v6j |
| OpenAlex | W2048724351 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
As graduate students writing our dissertations between 2009 and 2010 at the University of California Irvine, we began to feel the first ripples of a shrinking job market for tenuretrack academic positions in anthropology. There were questions, in hushed whispers as well as anxious and frantic outbursts, about how long the recession would last, whether we should "wait and see" before graduating, or apply now and just cast a wider net in terms of schools and searches. The 2009 Anthropology Faculty Job Market Report opens up with, "AAA has been increasingly concerned with the academic job market. Anecdotal evidence suggests that faculty lines are being lost and searches cancelled" (Terry-Sharp 2009). Given uncertainty, we both chose the latter option and had the good fortune to find employment in academic institutions— Cortney Hughes Rinker at the Arlington Innovation Center for Health Research (Virginia Tech) and Sheena Nahm at the Norman Lear Center (University of California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism). Interestingly enough, neither of us entered these institutions through the traditional route of the tenure-track position. Although our jobs were quite unique and different from each other, they both were in research centers focused on contracts and grants and were not solely situated in the realm of cultural anthropology, the field in which we are trained. Since then, we both went on to publish, teach, work in applied fields, and often engage with academic and nonacademic interlocutors
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |