Are you making these three writing mistakes? Academic women are a diverse and electrifying group. I truly get so much energy from interacting with you all, both in and out of my own field of study. But the more academic women I get to know, the more I realize that...
As you close your laptop on turning in grades, set up your email auto-responder so that students know you are unreachable and dream about all those projects that you’re going to finish over the break, it might be time for a little reality check. Let me guess: you have...
The terms “retreat” and “structure” might sound at odds to you. A retreat is an escape from structure, right? Not exactly. There is growing evidence that structured writing retreats are the best alternative for academics looking to make progress on their writing. A...
At some point or another we’ve all had one. That draft that is almost done, but not quite ready to submit for publication. Maybe it’s a dissertation chapter, a conference paper, or an excellent seminar paper. It’s really written already, but it needs...
Academia is maybe the only career where you study for years and years, but your studies only partially prepare you for your actual job. Becoming an expert in your field does not necessarily mean that you are prepared for the day-to-day tasks of academia. For that, we...
During academic year 2015-2016, I had the longest and most amazing maternity leave with my third (and last!) baby. When I came back to work in Fall 2017, my two edited volumes and an article in Anthropology and Education Quarterly were published. Now, because my...
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