Career Advice

In academe, we’re uncomfortable talking about how to gain influence, yet we spend much of our career learning the hard way that we can’t be very effective without it, argue Marie A. Cini and Craig Weidemann.

Students need to read more, talk about ideas and then write shorter papers more often, writes Deborah J. Cohan.

When your progress stalls before you have started to get to the core of your dissertation, how do you break through the stress and isolation? Victoria McGovern offers some suggestions.

As a woman of color, having conversations about surviving and thriving in predominantly white spaces is integral to self-preservation, writes Macy Wilson, and that requires being intentional about who one spends time with.

By his second attempt to get a Ph.D., Alfredo Cumerma knew the kind of support he needed -- and that he recommends humanities departments put in place.

Melissa Dennihy offers eight tips for job candidates.

Personal relationships can provide untapped creative spaces for boundary-spanning work, writes Jeffrey Nesteruk, and the silos we most need to overcome might be ourselves.

Pallavi Eswara gives tips on how to put your best image forward.