Writing Freedom Panel (Virtual)

January 18, 2022

A virtual panel discussion with three editors focused on turning the dissertation into a book, geared to postdocs and grad students across the humanities and social sciences. 

Panelists: 

• Ken Wissoker
• Marcela Maxfield
• Priya Nelson

Job Market Panel & Reception

October 15, 2020

From the vantage point of both an applicant and search committees, our panelists will provide practical advice on cover letters, job interviews, job talks, and more. They will also discuss how to manage expectations, assess opportunities, and balance both personal and professional goals. Graduate students at all levels are encouraged to attend.

Academic Labor Workshop

February 7, 2019

It is now more than two decades since academics, workers, students, and organizers first began to name the “crisis” of labor in higher education. In the years since, universities have continued to contract, reorganize, and redistribute resources in ways that have made traditional models of academic labor increasingly untenable for all but the privileged few. Long term security has been replaced by uncertainty, contingency, and precarity. In this critical roundtable conversation, panelists will discuss the impact of these changes on academic workers and students alike as they consider the past, present, and future of work in the corporate university. What have these new conditions done to the pursuit of free inquiry and the “life of the mind”? What are some strategies for challenging these arrangements, both individually and collectively? Together, we will try to imagine a different set of possibilities for life and labor in the context of the 21st century university.

The program’s focus will be on public history and the presentation of African American history and culture to audiences beyond the university.

Panelists:

• Tamara Nopper
• Tami Navarro
• Heath Pearson

Job Market and Reception

October 11, 2018

From the vantage point of both an applicant and search committees, our panelists (Reena Goldthree, Olivia Mena, and Tera Hunter, moderated by Josh Guild) will provide practical advice on cover letters, job interviews, job talks, and more. They will also discuss how to manage expectations, assess opportunities, and balance both personal and professional goals. Graduate students at all levels are encouraged to attend.

Job Market Tell All: Advice from Princeton Faculty about Going on the Market

September 27, 2017

In this informal workshop, aimed particularly at graduate students who are going on the academic job market as well as those applying for postdoctoral fellowships, faculty affiliated with African American Studies will discuss various aspects of the application and evaluation process. Speaking candidly and from personal experience as both job candidates and search committee members, they will talk about issues like cover letters, interviews, job talks, and campus visits. The emphasis will be on practical advice and demystifying an often confusing and anxious process.

Panelists: 

• Nijah Cunningham
• Judith Weisenfeld
• Autumn Womack

Publishing ‘Justice, Power, and Politics’: An Inside Look at a Cutting-Edge Academic Series

Spring 2016

Joshua Guild and Stephen Ward lead a conversation about the intellectual journeys and the process — the pitfalls and perils, surprises and satisfactions — of moving “from dissertation to book.” Ward’s editor, Brandon Proia, from the Justice, Power, and Politics imprint of UNC Press, discusses his work with authors on developing their ideas and moving their writing through different stages of the academic publishing process.

Panelists:

• Stephen Ward, University of Michigan, author of In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
• Joshua Guild, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Princeton University
• Brandon Proia, Editor, University of North Carolina Press, “Justice, Power, and Politics” series