Post by Rebecca Brackmann on Oct 12, 2017 15:33:18 GMT
Just ran across this article on the Chronicle:
bit.ly/2gybg5Q
The author talks about the use of the term "independent scholar" for a PhD without an institutional affiliation, and suggests ways that we can work to make conferences and the profession as a whole more inclusive of those without academic posts:
Associate Professor of English Lincoln Memorial University
KPA Executive Director
bit.ly/2gybg5Q
The author talks about the use of the term "independent scholar" for a PhD without an institutional affiliation, and suggests ways that we can work to make conferences and the profession as a whole more inclusive of those without academic posts:
- Embrace writers, journalists, artists, and other scholars as true colleagues, by asking them how they would like to be identified. If they choose "independent scholar," great. If not, great. But let them decide.
- As the ethnomusicologist Rebecca Bodenheimer has suggested, begin a conversation with a fellow scholar with "What do you work on?" rather than, "Where are you?"
- Professional organizations: On conference registration and proposal-submission sites, give scholars the opportunity to define themselves and their work in whatever way they wish. (Or, barring that, forgo printing affiliations on conference badges and in programs altogether.)
- Conference program committees: Make a concerted effort to recruit scholars from a range of professions for panels and round tables — and not just those that focus on "alternative careers."
Associate Professor of English Lincoln Memorial University
KPA Executive Director
