The Modern Grail: Insider Tips from Search Committees to Land That Academic Job (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Academy Graduate Student Committee
Organizer Name
Justin Lynn Barker, Tamara Bentley Caudill
Organizer Affiliation
Purdue Univ., Tulane Univ.
Presider Name
Justin Lynn Barker
Paper Title 1
Panelist
Presenter 1 Name
Arthur Bahr
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paper Title 2
Panelist
Presenter 2 Name
Maribel Dietz
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Louisiana State Univ.
Paper Title 3
Panelist
Presenter 3 Name
Thomas R. Leek
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Paper Title 4
Panelist
Presenter 4 Name
Alex Mueller
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Massachusetts-Boston
Paper Title 5
Panelist
Presenter 5 Name
Ellen K. Rentz
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Claremont McKenna College
Paper Title 6
Panelist
Presenter 6 Name
Michelle M. Sauer
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Univ. of North Dakota
Paper Title 7
Panelist
Presenter 7 Name
Monica L. Wright
Presenter 7 Affiliation
Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette
Start Date
12-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Valley I Hadley 101
Description
This roundtable will bring together scholars who have served on search committees in different disciplines to provide insight into the hiring process and discuss how graduate students and recent PhDs can better prepare for the academic job market. From advisors and job placement committees to The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Professor is In, there is an overwhelming amount of advice about what one should and should not do on the job market. As the number of available tenure-track positions decreases, the number of how-to books, advice blogs, and conference panels increases; yet with this increase comes a plethora of contradictory, confusing, and sometimes-inaccurate information. Is one peer-reviewed article enough? Or should it be two? What about teaching experience? Service? What exactly does a search committee want? And how do these qualifications vary from institution to institution? This roundtable will focus on hashing out some of these discrepancies. This roundtable will provide graduate students and recent PhDs an opportunity to hear an insider’s perspective. Scholars who have served on search committees will share their experiences, give advice, and answer questions about the academic job market. The goal of this roundtable is to provide more consistent information so that graduate students and recent PhDs have a better idea what search committees are looking for. This roundtable will be interdisciplinary and should include perspectives from a variety of higher education institutions: that is, small liberal arts colleges, state-funded universities, community colleges, and R1 institutions.
Justin L. Barker
The Modern Grail: Insider Tips from Search Committees to Land That Academic Job (A Roundtable)
Valley I Hadley 101
This roundtable will bring together scholars who have served on search committees in different disciplines to provide insight into the hiring process and discuss how graduate students and recent PhDs can better prepare for the academic job market. From advisors and job placement committees to The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Professor is In, there is an overwhelming amount of advice about what one should and should not do on the job market. As the number of available tenure-track positions decreases, the number of how-to books, advice blogs, and conference panels increases; yet with this increase comes a plethora of contradictory, confusing, and sometimes-inaccurate information. Is one peer-reviewed article enough? Or should it be two? What about teaching experience? Service? What exactly does a search committee want? And how do these qualifications vary from institution to institution? This roundtable will focus on hashing out some of these discrepancies. This roundtable will provide graduate students and recent PhDs an opportunity to hear an insider’s perspective. Scholars who have served on search committees will share their experiences, give advice, and answer questions about the academic job market. The goal of this roundtable is to provide more consistent information so that graduate students and recent PhDs have a better idea what search committees are looking for. This roundtable will be interdisciplinary and should include perspectives from a variety of higher education institutions: that is, small liberal arts colleges, state-funded universities, community colleges, and R1 institutions.
Justin L. Barker