An Unstable Bridge
A Reees Graduate Student Perspective on Contemporary Academia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4206153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caitlin Giustiniano (University of Southern California), Zachary Hicks (0000-0003-1359-5616, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 741-748 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/slr.2022.9 |
| OpenAlex | W4244103426 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Our aim in this article is to foreground the specific role that graduate students play in academia today and some structural issues that are connected with it. As both workers and students, graduate students occupy a unique position within the larger academic system. They work at what for the majority is the beginning of a continuum of casualization, precarity, and adjunctification. Meanwhile, graduate students are educated following an older, apprenticeship-based model proper to a time when a PhD was a more likely bridge to secure employment. To articulate a REEES graduate student perspective, we interviewed eighteen REEES graduate students and recent grads from across the US focusing on these structural problems. At a moment when almost 75% of contemporary academic labor is carried out by graduate students and non-tenure track faculty, we hope to open up a conversation about contingent labor in REEES and to spotlight potential for practical changes
Apprenticeship · Bridge (graph theory · Conversation · Graduate education · Graduate students · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Precarity · Sociology · Visual arts · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Higher Education Governance and Development · History · Medicine · University Challenges and Reforms
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |