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When I respond to questions about my professional background and current job, my answer often involves keywords like “Harvard,” “PhD,” “consulting,” “research,” “psychology,” “yoga,” and “Prague.” These words make it sound like I have my sh*t together...

Blog:  GradHacker Ashley Sanders is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at Michigan State University. You can follow her on Twitter at @throughthe_veil or on her blog, Colonialism Through the Veil. In one of the worst...

Google the keywords “academic” and “mother” or “motherhood”, and you will find various websites with discussions about the baby penalty in academia for women. Representative for this literature is an influential Slate article by Mary Ann Mason, who writes...

Everyone who is thinking and writing about the implosion of the academic job market is by now aware of the dust-up between Rebecca Schuman and the Tenured Radical in late December. On Dec. 20, Rebecca Schuman wrote the post “Naming and Shaming...

Earlier this week, I wrote about the seemingly baffling fact that, despite a desolate academic job market, the number of new students enrolling in arts and humanities Ph.D. programs managed to grow by 7.7 percent from 2011 to 2012. Why, I wondered, haven...