Career Advice

Jeana Jorgensen explores the potential professional costs of teaching about trauma as an adjunct professor.

Faculty and staff members can often regard one another with indifference, suspicion or even hostility, but at Georgetown University, the two groups are actively collaborating to improve student well-being, writes David Ebenbach.

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.