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More Annals of the Great Depression: Whither The Conference Interview?
In my opinion? It’s on its way out. For what Zenith spent on searches this year, we could have hired a bunch of visitors, or two tenure-track faculty. Or we could have given the faculty we have a...
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A Meditation on Recent History, Belonging and Endurance
I was trying to think of something clever to add to Historiann’s list of things to pack as you prepare to take off for graduate school. Medical marijuana? Nicotine patches (especially if you do not...
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Oh, The Joy Of Political History! Day 2 at Policy History Conference
Why do we go to conferences? Most of us end up asking this question, perhaps as we are finishing up a paper or a comment later than we wanted to, or packing hastily the night before a flight that is...
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She’ll Always Be A Player On The Ballfield Of My Heart: Tenured Radical And...
This is the Part III, and the conclusion, of a discussion between Tenured Radical and Historiann of Terry Castle’s “The Professor and Other Writings” (HarperCollins, 2010 — if you are new to the...
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The Social Network: Or; Does Networking Really Matter To An Academic Career?
One of 17 ways to visualize Twitter. Why do we tell young scholars to “network,” and what do we mean by it? As I was finishing up Samuel Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999) last...
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It’s Tuesday, It’s Hot: You Need Shorts
For those of you who are new to Tenured Radical, you should know that people send us stuff all the time. Little stuff, big stuff, stuff that goes viral as a featured post and other stuff that we just...
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Radical But Not Tenured: Reflections from an Unemployed ABD
By “Sam Concord” Today’s guest blogger is a pseudonymous graduate student from a major research university and a future tenured radical. Super-qualified, unemployed, and nearly finished with his...
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More On The Grafton Line: You Can Play Too
L.D. Burnett sez: Bring it on, play-uhs. We have just passed the half-way marker for summer, with a precious few weeks remaining before those emails about fall teaching start arriving. And what to my...
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The Ten Commandments of Graduate School
So you are starting graduate school, eh? Against all of our best advice here in the blogosphere, you are determined to embark on the scholarly life. Well, you know what I have to say about that? Good...
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Crossing on a Yellow Light: Ten Questions To Ask Prospective Graduate Students
Longtime readers of the Radical know that it is one of my policies not to write about real people, but I’m going to break that rule to make an important announcement. I said no to writing a graduate...
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