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4/12 – Grant Writing Workshop with Dr. Karen Kelsky

Join us for a four-hour grant writing workshop led by Karen Kelsky, nationally-known academic consultant who  blogs as “The Professor Is In.” Dr. Kelsky will offer tangible strategies for grant-writing, including how to think like the selection committee, how to structure your grant proposal, and how to use her Foolproof Grant Template to create a “hero narrative” that demonstrates the originality and import of your research. Dr. Karen would like the participants to send a grant application draft, if they have one, to her at gettenure@gmail.com. (Please also bring this draft to the workshop itself.)

Karen Kelsky, aka, The Professor, is a former tenured professor and Department Head with 15 years of experience teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her Ph.D. is in Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on Japan, from the University of Hawai’i. Her B.A. is from the University of Michigan. Her book, Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams, was published in 2001 by Duke University Press. She worked with many Ph.D. students during her university career, and since 2011 has run The Professor Is In, an academic blog and business dedicated to assisting ABDs and Ph.D.s in their academic job searches, as well as grant applications, book proposals, and other elements of the academic career.

Please RSVPto Marilyn Weber, History APO – mweber@gc.cuny.edu

Friday, April 12th, noon – 4 p.m., Room 5114

Co-sponsored by the PhD Program in History and the PhD Program in History.

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Professional Development: Academic Job Market Resources

Job Listings

Inside Higher Ed

http://careers.insidehighered.com/

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/section/Jobs/61/

 

The American Historical Association (now free after setting up an account)

https://www.historians.org/jobads/

 

H-Net Job Listings

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_browse.php

 

Academic Jobs Online

https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo

 

Job Information Networks

http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Jobs_Wiki

 

Books, Websites, and Blogs about the Job Market

The AHA’s “Preparing for the Job Market” Page

http://www.historians.org/grads/JobMarket.cfm

This page has links to information about applying for academic jobs in History; how to prepare c.v.s, cover letters, and teaching portfolios; how to interview; advice on careers in secondary schools and public history; information about foreign jobs; and spousal hiring policies.

 

Kathryn Hume. Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

E-book accessible at the GC: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/gc/docDetail.action?docID=10135386

About half of this 200-page book is devoted to landing a tenure-track position.  Three appendices contain models of job hunt documents, checklists, and resources.

 

Gregory Colon Semenza. Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (rev. ed.).

E-Book accessible at the GC: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/gc/docDetail.action?docID=10135412

Semenza’s instant-classic book takes students from the first day of graduate school to the job market (chapter 12).  Semenza includes some particularly helpful models for abstracts, cover letters, and teaching statements in the appendix.

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Advice Blogs and Columns

http://chronicle.com/section/First-Time-on-the-Market-/146/

The Chronicle has helpfully compiled a webpage containing advice about the academic job market.  Recent posts have discussed teaching abroad and how to interview well.

 

The Professor is In Blog

http://theprofessorisin.com/pearlsofwisdom/

Karen Kelsky, a formerly tenured faculty member and department chair, now runs a consulting business for graduate students and tenure candidates.  Her blog, “Pearls of Wisdom,” gives free, detailed advice three times per week, often concerning the job market.  She does a particularly good job of giving advice that takes gender into account; a recent blog post looked at why “Women Fail, but Men Bomb: A Special Request Post for the Guys on the Market.”

 

Average Salary and Demographic Information

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Salary Explorer

http://chronicle.com/article/Interactive-Database-2011/126972/