Academia would benefit from “the motivation to see things as they are and not as” one wishes “they were.”
by Ajay Verghese | 7 May 2021 | Academia
Academia would benefit from “the motivation to see things as they are and not as” one wishes “they were.”
by Ji-Young Lee & Bridging the Gap | 13 Jun 2020 | Academia, Bridging the Gap, Kate McNamara and Academic Mentorship, Symposia
What was it like to have Kate McNamara a mentor?
by Peter Henne | 26 Aug 2019 | Academia, Bridging the Gap, Featured
Graduation Cap and Diploma on White with Soft Shadow. C/o Bluestocking, 2008 Uyen Le APSA is nearly upon us again, and I thought I should write something profession-related as I got back into blogging. My first thought was to make fun of annoying questions, but I already did that (six years ago...but still relevant). And there is a lot of advice floating around for grad students or others on the market. Instead, I thought I'd focus on an area...
by Lisa Gaufman | 5 Nov 2018 | Academia, Featured, Gender, Nerdblogging
To illustrate this post, I would love to put that cute stock photo of a woman dressed in a taupe formal suit holding an adorable baby in a diaper, but it is just wildly unrealistic. For starters, the baby is horribly underdressed and the suit would have been covered in drool/spit-up/mysterious orange food rests in mere seconds. FYI, stock photo editors, working on a computer with a baby on your lap is also not an option, because in the end...
by Steve Saideman | 14 Nov 2016 | Featured, Nerdblogging, US Foreign Policy
This is a guest post by Eric Grynaviski, an Associate Professor of Political Science at International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of Constructive Illusions (Cornell, 2014) .He studies sociological approaches to cooperation and conflict, and international ethics. Over the last few days, protestors have taken to the streets to combat what they believe is an evil power that will soon occupy the White House. The...
by Jon Western | 2 May 2016 | Academia
[Note: This is the second of two guest posts on life in the Liberal Arts Colleges from Sarah Stroup and Amy Yuen, both Associate Professors of Political Science, Middlebury College] According to the 2014 TRIP survey, at least one in six IR faculty in the United States teach at a liberal arts college.[1] If you want one of those jobs, how do you get it? In this second post (part I here), we identify a few steps, gathered based on our own...
by Amanda Murdie | 2 Jul 2014 | Featured
Greetings, PhD Class of 2019. Welcome. We are excited for your arrival on campus later this summer. As you enjoy your summer, I thought I’d take this opportunity to write you with some advice for your next adventure. My comments are just based on my personal experiences but I thought maybe they would be of use to you as you start your PhD. My first set of comments all revolve around one basic point: this isn’t an extension of undergrad. ...
by Steve Saideman | 10 Apr 2014 | Featured
The first rule of the internet is not to read the comments for any op-ed one posts. Why? Because the cover of anonymity allows people to say awful stuff. Of course, Twitter amply demonstrates that people will say awful things on the internet even when one can be clearly identified. Anyhow, over the past several years, a series of websites have been gathering spots for both aspiring and experienced political scientists to exchange in rumors...
by Amanda Murdie | 13 Sep 2013 | Featured
As I post this today, senior faculty in my department are voting on my tenure case. I don’t really know how to describe what I’m feeling at the moment. It’s a combination of zen-like calm that I’m finally at this juncture in my career and a feeling of total and utter panic at the small-but-ever-present chance that things could go wrong. The odd thing: it’s not that I’m oscillating between these two states -I feel both at the same time. In a...
by Dan Nexon | 9 Sep 2013 | End of IR Theory?, Featured, Symposia, Theory & Methods
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by David Edelstein. It is the eighth installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post responds to Chris Brown's article (PDF). His post appeared earlier today. Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be reached via the "EJIR Special Issue...
by Amanda Murdie | 11 Jul 2013 | Featured
Dear LaTeX, You look so pretty. In grad school, all the cool kids were using you. You know, the kids that had backgrounds in differential calculus and ran R even when they didn’t have to? Those kids. I wanted to be like them and have groundbreaking papers. So, instead of working on my arguments and methods, I downloaded you and set out to write my dissertation with your wonderful program. I mean, if the paper looks like it was written by...
by Steve Saideman | 28 Mar 2013 | Academia
Spring (where it exists) is the time of year when applicants to PhD programs find out the outcome and decide where, if any place, to go. While there are many factors that one must take into account, including what might happen if your preferred adviser leaves (Will Moore's take and mine), there is something far more fundamental: are you going to get funding?* If the answer is no, then the decision is painful but easy: don't go....