Professional Development Workshop
The Professional Development Workshop is intended to foster graduate students in all aspects of preparedness for their future profession.
Faculty Leader: Kris Ramsay
Location: 127 Corwin
Time: Fridays, 1:30pm to 3pm
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Speaker
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Topic
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Aug. 16
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Keith Whittington
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Job Letter Writing Workshop
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Aug. 23
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Alex Hirsch, Omar Wasow
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Practical Advice on Preparing a Job Talk
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Sept. 20
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David Carter, Ali Valenzuela
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Practical Advice on Campus Visits
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Oct. 4
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9:00 am Insong Kim
10:00 am Steve Snell
11:00 am Raymond Kuo
1:30 pm Meredith Wilf
2:30 pm Sarah El-Kazaz
3:30 pm Matthew Barnes
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Marathon Practice Job Talk Day
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Oct. 11
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9:00 am Dinsha Mistree
10:00 am Michael Lamb
11:00 am Jidong Chen
1:30 pm Scott Abramson
2:30 pm Marko Radenovic
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Marathon Practice Job Talk Day
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Oct. 18
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Stephen Macedo, Chris Achen
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Responsible Conduct of Research: The Role of Political Science in a Democracy
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Oct. 25
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Trevor Latimer, Rohan Mukherjee, Alex Bolton
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Practical Advice on Preparing a Dissertation Prospectus
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Nov. 1
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No Session (Fall Break)
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Nov. 8
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Doug Arnold
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Responsible Conduct of Research: Academic Misconduct
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Nov. 15 - moved to Bowl 16 Robertson Hall
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Quentin R. Skinner
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Giving a Talk at a Conference
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Nov. 22
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No Session (Thanksgiving Break)
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Dec. 13
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No Session (end of semester)
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Jan. 8, 12:00 pm
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SPECIAL EVENT
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The Art of Writing a Research Proposal Workshop, co-sponsored by the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
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| Feb. 5, 12:00 pm | Evan Lieberman | Responsible Conduct of Research: Mentoring Teaching Assistants, and Research Assistants |
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Feb. 14
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Jennifer Widner
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Responsible Conduct of Research: Human Subjects
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Feb. 21
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Edward Freeland
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Responsible Conduct of Research: Institutional Review Boards
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Feb. 28 (Cancelled)
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Robert George
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Responsible Conduct of Research: Advocacy, Objectivity, and Professionalism in Political Science
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March 7
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March 14
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No Session (Spring Break begins)
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March 21
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No Session (Spring Break)
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March 28
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No Session (ISA)
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| April 4 | Christina Davis |
Practical Advice on Writing Abstracts
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April 11
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April 18
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Eric Crahan, Princeton University Press
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Practical Advice on Publishing a Book
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April 25
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Kris Ramsay
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Practical Advice on Preparing for the Job Market
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Job Letter Writing Workshop
Dept. of Politics Job Market Handbook
Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller, The Academic Job Search Handbook
Paul Gray and David Drew, What They Didn’t Teaching You in Graduate School
John A. Goldsmith, et al., A Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career
Practical Advice on Preparing a Job Talk
Jon Gould and Scott Keeter, “No Second Chance at Making a Good Impression: Peril and Possibility in the Campus Visit,” PS 36 (2003): 791
Robert Axelrod, “Tips for an Academic Job Talk,” PS 18 (1985): 612
A. Wuffle, “Uncle Wuffle’s Advice on Job Talks,” PS 39 (2006): 883
Ron Hassner, “Trial by Fire: Surviving the Job Talk Q&A,” PS 41 (2008): 803
Practical Advice on Preparing a Dissertation
Prospectus
Richard Fox, “Developing a Dissertation Prospectus,” PS 34 (2001): 849
Peter May, “Constructing the Prospectus,” PS 34 (2001): 843
Sara Benesh, “The Key to a Successful Prospectus,” PS 34 (2001): 853
Jeffrey Knopf, “Doing a Literature Review,” PS 39 (2006): 127
Practical Advice on Publishing a Book
Robin Derricourt, An Author’s Guide to Scholarly Publishing
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
Symposium: A Guide to Publishing Your First Book, PS 38 (2005): 745
Sandy Thatcher, “Dissertations into Books? The Lack of Logic in the System,” Against the Grain (April 2007): 76 (www.against-the-grain.com)
Charles T. Myers, “A Short Tour of Book Publishing for Political Scientists,” PS (2004): 489
Cambridge University Press, Guidelines for the Manuscript Reader
Cambridge University Press, Editorial Procedures
Responsible Conduct of Research: Academic Misconduct
Required Readings: APSA Guide to Professional Ethics, Rights and Freedoms http://www.apsanet.org/media/PDFs/ethicsguideweb.pdf
APSA Style Manual http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPSA.html
Princeton guide to academic integrity http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/intro/index.htm
Princeton academic regulations in Rights, Rules and Responsibilities
Further Reading:
John Hardwig, “The Role of Trust in Knowledge,” The Journal of Philosophy 88 (1991): 693
J. Couzin, “Truth and consequences: After making a difficult decision to turn in their advisor for scientific misconduct, a group of graduate students is trying to recover,” Science 313 (2006): 1222-1226.
C Raymond, “Allegations of plagiarism of scientific manuscript raise concerns about intellectual theft,” Chronicle of Higher Education , July 19, 1989.
Chronicle of Higher Education Special Report on Plagiarism, December 17, 2004
Ben R. Martin, “Keeping Plagiarism at Bay – A Salutary Tale,” Research Policy 36 (2007): 905
Kevin T. McGuire, “There Was a Crooked Man(uscript): A Not-So-Serious Look at the Serious Subject of Plagarism,” PS 43 (2010): 107
Miguel Roig, “Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing,” http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/plagiarism/
Daniel Hemel and Lauren Schuker, “Prof Admits to Misusing Source,” Harvard Crimson, September 27, 2004 http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/9/27/prof-admits-to-misusing-source-harvard/
David Henige, “Discouraging Verification: Citation Practices across the Disciplines,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 37 (2006): 99.
Responsible Conduct of Research: The Role of Political Science in a Democracy
Required Reading: Charles Lindblom, “Another State of Mind,” APSR 76 (1982): 9
Rogers Smith, “Political Science and the Public Sphere in the 21st Century,” Public Sphere Forum (2011) http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/smith-political-science-and-the-public-sphere/
Further Reading:
Robert Dahl, “The Behavioral Approach in Political Science: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest,” APSR 55 (1961): 763
Theodore Lowi, “The State in Political Science: How We Became What We Study,” APSR 86 (1992): 1
Rogers Smith, “Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science,” Daedalus 126 (1997): 253
Robert Putnam, “The Public Role of Political Science,” Perspectives on Politics 1 (2003): 249
Jonathan Cohn, “Irrational Exuberance,” The New Republic (Oct. 25, 1999): 25
Jeffrey Isaac, “Social Science and Liberal Values in a Time of War,” Perspectives on Politics 2 (2004): 475
Wilson Carey McWilliams, “Political Arts and Political Sciences,” in Power and Community, ed. Philip Green and Sanford Levinson (New York: Random House, 1969).
Sheldon Wolin, “Political Theory as a Vocation,” APSR 63 (1969): 1062
James Bryce, “The Relations of Political Science to History and to Practice,” APSR 3 (1909): 1
Gabriel Almond, “Separate Tables: Schools and Sects in Political Science,” PS 21 (1988): 828
Raymond Seidelman with Edward Harpham, Disenchanted Realists
James W. Ceaser, Liberal Democracy & Political Science
Responsible Conduct of Research: Mentoring, Teaching Assistants, and Research Assistants
Required Reading:
Sandra Stith, et al., “Student-Faculty Collaborative Research,” Family Relations 41 (1992): 470
John M. Braxton, Alan E. Bayer, and Martin J. Finkelstein, “Teaching Performance Norms in Academia,” Research in Higher Education 33 (1992): 533
Further Reading:
Bill Williamson, “(Ab)using Students: The Ethics of Faculty Use of a Student’s Work Product,” Arizona State Law Journal 26 (1994): 1029
Sandip Patel, “Graduate Students’ Ownership and Attribution Rights in Intellectual Property,” Indiana Law Journal 71 (1995): 481
“A Feminist Perspective on Graduate Student-Advisor Relationships,” Feminist Teacher 10 (1996): 17
Edward Tenner, “The Pitfalls of Academic Mentorships,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2004
John M. Braxton, Alan E. Bayer, and James A. Noseworthy, “Students as Tenuous Agents of Social Control of Professorial Misconduct,” Peabody Journal of Education 77 (2002): 101.
Joanne Jones and Gary Spraakman, “A Case of Academic Misconduct: Does Self-Interest Rule?” Accounting Perspectives 10 (2011): 1.
Patricia Keith-Spiegel, et al., The Ethics of Teaching (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002).
The Art of Writing a Research Proposal Workshop, co-sponsored with the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Readings: Ellis Sandoz, “The National Endowment for the Humanities and Political Science after 25 Years,” PS 23 (1990): 455
Christian Davenport, et al., “Political Science at the NSF,” PS 33 (2000): 895
Anne Moffat, “Grantsmanship: What Makes Proposals Work?” Science 265 (1994): 1921 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2884681
Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon, The Art of Writing Proposals: Some Candid Suggestions for Applicants to Social Science Research Council Competitions (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1998). http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/7A9CB4F4-815F-DE11-BD80-001CC477EC70/
Grant Proposal Handout http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/grant_proposals.html
Responsible Conduct of Research: Responsible Research and Funding
Required Reading:
Catherine Lutz, David Engerman, David Nugent, Ron Rubin and Conor Gearty on the Minerva Project at http://essays.ssrc.org/minerva/category/all-essays/
Robertson v. Princeton Lead Plaintiff: “It’s the [donor trust] economy stupid!” http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit/2008/07/robertson-v-pri.html
Further Reading:
Ithiel De Sola Pool, “The necessity for social scientists doing research for governments,” in The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot, ed. Horowitz (1967)
L. Sandy Maisel and Walter Stone, “The Politics of Government-Funded Research: Notes from the Experience of the Candidate Emergence Study,” PS 31 (1998): 811
Risa L. Lieberwitz, “Corporatization of the University: Distance Learning at the cost of Academic Freedom,” Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 12 (2002): 73
Stephen Walt, “The Search for a Science of Strategy,” International Security 12 (1987): 140
Rebecca Goolsby, “Ethics and Defense Agency Funding: Some Considerations,” Social Networks 27 (2005): 95
Donald Downs, “When Donors Pick the Courses,” Minding the Campus, March 25, 2008 http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2008/03/an_interesting_news_item_caugh.html
Erin Strout, “Provosts Object to Antiterrorism Language Added to Foundations’ Grant Agreement,” Chronicle of Higher Education (May 14, 2004): A29.
The Minerva Controversy http://essays.ssrc.org/minerva/
Mark Solovey, “Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution: Rethinking the Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus,” Social Studies of Science 31 (2001): 171
Adam Liptak, “From One Footnote, A Debate over the Tangles of Law, Science, and Money,” NY Times (Nov. 25, 2008), A16
Kris Hundley, “Billionaire’s role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions,” St. Petersburg Times (May 10, 2011)
Jeevan Vasagar and Rajeev Syal, “LSE head quits over Gaddafi scandal,” The Guardian (March 3, 2011)
Responsible Conduct of Research: Human Subjects
Required Reading:
Shareen Hertel, et al., “Field Research in Developing Countries: Hitting the Road Running,” PS 42 (2009): 305
Joan Cassell, “Ethical Principles for Conducting Fieldwork,” American Anthropologist 82 (1980): 28
Further Reading:
Laura Woliver, “Ethical Dilemmas in Personal Interviewing,” PS 34 (2002): 677
James Carroll, “Confidentiality of Social Science Research Sources and Data: The Popkin Case,” PS 6 (1973): 268
Shareen Hertel, et al., “Field Research in Developing Countries: Hitting the Road Running,” PS 42 (2009): 305
Elisabeth Jean Wood, “Field Research,” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics
Sheila Carapico, “No Easy Answers: The Ethics of Field Research in the Arab World,” PS 39 (2006): 429
Caleb Wall and John Overton, “Unethical Ethics? Applying Research Ethics in Uzbekistan,” Development in Practice 16 (2006): 62 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4029860
Erica Townsend-Bell, “Being True and Being You: Race, Gender, Class, and the Fieldwork Experience,” PS 42 (2009): 311
Responsible Conduct of Research: Institutional
Review Boards
Required Reading:
NIH Human Subjects Online Training Module (complete the certification) http://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php
Princeton University Institutional Review Board (look at Questionnaire A and B) http://www.princeton.edu/orpa/irb.htm
Further Reading:
Philip Hamburger, “Getting Permission,” Northwestern University Law Review 101 (2007) 405
Judith Jarvis Tomson, et al., “Research on Human Subjects: Academic Freedom and the Institutional Review Board,” Academe 92 (2006): 95. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40253500
Kevin Haggerty, “Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics,” Qualitative Sociology 27 (2004): 391 http://www.springerlink.com/content/p802537wh2112r31/
B. Bozeman and P. Hirsch, “Science Ethics as a Bureaucratic Problem: IRBs, Rules, and Failures of Control,” Policy Sciences 38 (2006): 269 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4532668
Susan Fiske, “Institutional Review Boards: From Bane to Benefit,” Perspectives on Psychological Science 4 (2008): 30 http://pps.sagepub.com/content/4/1/30.full
Mitchell Seligson, “Human Subjects Protection and Large-N Research: When Exempt is Non-Exempt and Research is Non-Research,” PS 41 (2008): 477
Office for Human Research Protections (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/)
Michael Zimmer, “But the Data is Already Public: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook,” Ethics of Information Technology 12 (2010): 313 http://www.springerlink.com/content/q1v7731u26210682/
John Kifner, “Scholar Sets of Gastronomic False Alarm,” NY Times (Sept. 8, 2001)
Testing the Limits to the Responsiveness to Authority http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GxIuljT3w
Responsible Conduct of Research: Advocacy, Objectivity, and Professionalism in Political Science
Required Reading: Robert George, “Shameless Acts Revisited,” Academic Questions 9 (1996): 24 http://www.springerlink.com/content/81383l4002051660/
Randall Kennedy, “Reconstruction and the Politics of Scholarship,” Yale L. Journal 98 (1989): 521 (READ 538n70 ONLY) http://www.jstor.org/stable/796628?seq=18
Further Reading:
Howard Becker, “Whose Side Are We On?” Social Problems 14 (1967): 239
Christian Bay, “Politics and Pseudopolitics: A Critical Evaluation of Some Behavioral Literature,” APSR 59 (1965): 39
Ernest Wilson, “Is There Really a Scholar-Practitioner Gap? An Institutional Analysis,” PS 40 (2007): 147
Lawrence Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, “Restoring the Tradition of Rigor and Relevance to Political Science,” PS 39 (2006): 27.
Tony Robinson, “Service Learning as Justice Advocacy: Can Political Scientists Do Politics?” PS 33 (2000): 605.
Brief of 281 American Historians, Public Historian 12 (1990): 57 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3378199
John Finnis, “Shameless Acts in Colorado,” Academic Questions 7 (1994) 10. http://www.springerlink.com/content/l551247650j05670/
Martha Nussbaum, “Platonic Law and Colorado Law,” Virginia L. Review 80 (1994): 1515
Robert George, “Shameless Acts Revisited,” Academic Questions 9 (1996): 24
http://www.springerlink.com/content/81383l4002051660/
Randall Kennedy, “Reconstruction and the Politics of Scholarship,” Yale L. Journal 98 (1989): 521 http://www.jstor.org/stable/796628
Haskell and Levinson, “Academic Freedom and Expert Witnesses,” Texas Law Review 66 (1988): 1629
Alice Kessler-Harris, “Academic Freedom and Expert Witnessing: A Response,” Texas Law Review 67 (1988): 429
Responsible Conduct of Research: Publishing, Academic Freedom, and Professional Pressures
Required Reading:
John Kekes, “Academic Corruption,” Monist 79 (1996): 564
A. Wuffle, “Uncle Wuffle’s Advice to the Assistant Professor,” PS 26 (1993): 89
http://www.jstor.org/stable/419515
Further Reading:
David Pontille and Didier Torny, “The Controversial Policies of Journal Ratings: Evaluating Social Sciences and Humanities,” Research Evaluation 19 (2010): 347
Diane Paul, “The Market as Censor,” PS 21 (1988): 31
Chris Harrison, “Peer Review, Politics, and Pluralism,” Environmental Science & Policy 7 (2004): 357
Elisabeth Clemens, et al., “Careers in Print: Books, Journals, and Scholarly Reputations,” American Journal of Sociology 101 (1995): 433
Donald Brenneis, “Discourse and Discipline at the National Research Council: A Bureaucratic Bildungsroman,” Cultural Anthropology 9 (1994): 23
Lutz Bornmann, “Scientific Peer Review,” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 45 (2010)
Von Bakanic, et al., “Mixed Messages: Referees’ Comments on the Manuscripts They Review,” Sociological Quarterly 30 (1989): 639
Joshua Guetzkow, et al. “What is Originality in the Humanities and the Social Sciences?” American Sociological Review 69 (2004): 190
Thom Brooks, “Guidelines on How to Referee,” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1719043
Richard L. Simpson, “The Ethical Responsibilities of Referees,” American Sociologist 21 (1990): 80
Marcia Lynn Whicker, et al., Getting Tenure
Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd D.W. Goodwin, The Academic’s Handbook
Joanne E. Cooper and Dannelle D. Stevens, Tenure in the Sacred Grove
Anonymous and Anonymous, “Tenure in a Chilly Climate,” PS 32 (1999): 91 http://www.jstor.org/stable/420756
John M. Rothgeb Jr. and Betsy Burger, “Tenure Standards in Political Science Departments: Results from a Survey of Department Chairs,” PS 42 (2009): 513
Kay Lehman Schlozman, “External Reviews in Tenure and Promotions Decisions: How Does the Process Work? How Should It?,” PS 31 (1998): 623 http://www.jstor.org/stable/420625
Cameron Thies, “Reflections on Assuming Administrative Responsibilities as an Untenured Assistant Professor,” PS 36 (2003): 447
Eugene Matusov and Robert Hampel, “Two Approaches to Tenure and Promotion Criteria,” Academe 94 (2008): 37
Cynthia L. Harter, et al., “Changing Incentives and Time Allocations for Academic Economists: Results from 1995 and 2000 National Surveys,” Journal of Economic Education 35 (2004): 89.
Practical Advice on Writing Abstracts
John Swales and Christine Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students
Derek Soles, The Essentials of Academic Writing
Wendy Laura Belcher, Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks
Rowena Murray, Writing for Academic Journals
Roundtable on Academic Careers for Political
Scientists in Professional Schools
Practical Advice on Preparing for the Job Market
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