Living Academic
This page collects, albeit not comprehensively, posts at the Duck of Minerva that focus on what might be called “the profession.” Many of our most consistently popular pieces — including ones that still get significant hits years after their publication — fall into this category and can be found below.
Academia as a Vocation
- “The Academic Vocation” (1 June 2009, PTJ), “Your Life’s Work” (4 June 2008, Peter), “Jobs and Vocations” (4 June 2009, PTJ), and “A Rock in the River” (20 August 2010, PTJ).
- “Academic New Year’s Resolutions You Won’t Keep” (3 January 2013, Megan H. MacKenzie).
- “Activism and Academia” (20 December 2005, PTJ), “Scholars and Politics” (31 March 2007, PTJ), and “Academia and ‘Journolist‘” (18 March 2009, Rodger Payne).
- “… the Absurdity of Thinking about Academia in Economic Terms” (27 December 2010, PTJ).
- “Against the ‘Cult of Relevance’” (18 September 2010, PTJ).
- “The Least Stressful Job of 2013: University Professor” (4 January 2013, DHN).
- The Problem of ‘Too Many Books and Articles, Too Little Time,” Parts One and Two (24 & 27 February 2012, REK).
- “Seven Things I Don’t Like About Being an Academic” (11 May 2012, REK).
- “So You Want to be a Liberal Arts Professors?” (18 January 2013, Jon Western)
- “What I did not Know about the Prof Business” (3 December 2012, Steve Saideman).
Academic Conferences
- “The Role of a Panel Discussant” (18 January 2007, PTJ).
- The ISA and APSA Drinking Games (15 March 2012 & 8 September 2010, Stephanie Carvin).
Academic Freedom
- The Erik Loomis Saga: “Academic Administrative Fecklessness” (19 December 2012, DHN) “A Modest Victory in the Struggle Against Academic Fecklessness” (24 December 2012, DHN), “A Different Take on the URI Statement 2.0” (25 December 2012, DHN).
The Academic “Job Market”
- “Death to Job Talks!” (1 February 2013, DHN) and “More on Job Talks” (5 February 2013, DHN).
- “Standard Stories for Hiring Decisions in Political Science” (9 January 2013, DHN).
- “Status, Cliques, and the Political-Science Job Market” (5 December 2012, DHN).
Graduate School
- “Advice for Applying for a PhD in Political Science” (2 August 2012, DHN).
- “Should You Get a PhD in IR?” (12 March 2012, PM).
- “The Tradeoffs of Getting to Graduate School in Political Science” (23 March 2012, PM).
- “When is it Rational to Leave Graduate School?” (17 October 2012, PM).
Pedagogy
- Teaching in the New Media Age (10 April 2012, Charli Carpenter).
- “Academic Rigor in the Classroom: Time to Get Serious?” (28 April 2012, Rodger Payne).
- “F for the Professor” (4 February 2011, Rodger Payne)
Publishing
- “Co-Authorship–Like Bad Marriages and Struggling Nonprofits” (10 January 2013, Amanda Murdie).
- “How Long are your Revise-and-Resubmit Letters?” (22 Aprils 2012, REK).
- “IR Journals in the Information Age” (27 June 2012, DHN) and “Reactions to SAGE Asking Authors to Blog” (6 August 2012, DHN).
- “Open-Access and IR Journals” (24 June 2012, DHN)
- “Google Scholar Follies” (12 April 2012, Deborah Avant).
- “Rejection” (25 October 2012, Amanda Murdie).
- “The Social Science Citation Index” (22 May 2012, REK).
- “Thoughts on Peer-Review Standards from a Junior Reviewer” (4 January 2013, Peter Henne).
Policy-Theory Divide
- “The Academic-Policy Nexus (Or Lack Thereof)” (22 December 2012, Jeffrey Stacey) and “The Academic-Policy Nexus: A Few More Thoughts” (26 December 2012, Jeffrey Stacey).
- “Doctoral Teaching on the Divide,” “Hanging on the Divide,” and “Geeking on the Divide” (8 May, 29 May, & 21 March 2012, Charli Carpenter).
- “Is International Relations Useful?” (19 June 2012, Josh Busby).
- “Sean Kay: ‘The Scholar/Policy Gap in International Relations Revised” (27 December 2012, Sean Kay).
- “Scholar/Policy Gap–Filling up the Glass” (28 December 2012, Michael C. Horowitz).
- “… So You Want to Bridge the Theory/Policy Divide?” (1 July 2008, Charli Carpenter).
Professional Development
- How to Write a CV (20 March 2012, Steve Saideman)
Satire
- “Are IR Titles Getting Increasingly Boring? Evidence from a Data Set” (18 May 2012, DHN).
- “The MOOC Top Ten” (16 January 2013, DHN)
- “Silicon Wafers: Why We Need to Move Religion Online” (12 December 2012, PM).
The State of International Studies
- “Lamenting the Loss of the Light, the Ebbing of Grand Theory, and the Decline of the Old Boys Network” (5 January 2013, Steve Saideman).
- “Professionalization and the Poverty of IR Theory” (27 March 2012, DHN).
- “The Minerva Project: Time for a Disciplinary Appraisal?” (30 January 2013, DHN).
Student Issues
- “Graduation Rates” (26 October 2011, Rodger Payne)
- “Faculty Responsibility and Student Debt” (14 May 2012, DHN).
… More to come.
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