Alternative Academic Careers for Humanities Scholars
Here we frame & introduce #alt-academy — its scope, stakes, & structure — and invite your critical engagement & contribution.
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Labor & Labor Relations
Although labor & "alternative academic" labor relations are subjects threaded throughout the collection, these essays serve particularly to un-tangle & to knot them up.
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I Am Natalie Henderson: My "Nonacademic" Career in Academe & the #alt-ac Quest
Anne Mitchell WhisnantOctober 02, 2012
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Making Room
Here we address, through attention to personal experience, our academic institutions much more than ourselves — carving out space for new action in libraries, digital centers, & interdisciplinary programs, & failing to find it in some key disciplines.
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Careers & Credentials
What qualifies us for our work? And what kinds of working lives might our particular qualifications demand? These essays take on the promises & perils of professionalization. Some also include octopi.
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Getting There
#alt-academy took its own direction from a request for "signposts" — clear pointers for junior scholars considering new trajectories. Here are a few.
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Vocations, Identities
From public history to publishing, instructional technology to librarianship, & with stops in the digital humanities all along the way — these personal narratives & dialogues reflect on what we do, & how we came to be.
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