{"id":11703,"date":"2010-04-10T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/10\/do-you-want-an-academic-job\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T15:48:15","slug":"do-you-want-an-academic-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/10\/do-you-want-an-academic-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want an Academic Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Thomas H. Benton, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Dodging-the-Anvil\/63274\/?sid=ja&amp;utm_source=ja&amp;utm_medium=en\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Dodging the Anvil<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Essentially, if you want an academic job, you&#39;d better be really good at what you do. You should be at a top university (although sometimes less-famous institutions can be effective at local placements); have at least a few high-quality publications, preferably in top-tier journals; have a dissertation that&#39;s nearly a publishable book, preferably under contract with a university press; be a charismatic and challenging teacher; be socially energetic without being threatening; have well-known and well-connected advisers who will support you without any reservations; be willing to live anywhere; be prepared to work as a visiting professor and move a few times in the first decade of your career; and be willing to live with the possibility that you will always have an itinerant, insecure, poorly compensated existence.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">But you knew all that already.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Related posts, and links to two other earlier Benton pieces, are filed under <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/academia\/\">Academia.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas H. Benton, Dodging the Anvil: Essentially, if you want an academic job, you&#39;d better be really good at what you do. You should be at a top university (although sometimes less-famous institutions can be effective at local placements); have at least a few high-quality publications, preferably in top-tier journals; have a dissertation that&#39;s nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/10\/do-you-want-an-academic-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do You Want an Academic Job?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}