At Inside Higher Ed, I have a how-to guide to academic Twitter with a prologue on academic precarity and public engagement. “Precarity helped create the new public scholar,” I argue: […]

My latest on issues in higher education is up, on the subject of how to treat contingent faculty with respect. It used to be the case that non-tenure-track faculty were […]

Now up at Inside Higher Ed: The basic argument against the conference interview is straightforward: It imposes considerable costs on the interviewees at a time in their lives when they […]

An essay I wrote about my experience on the academic job market, my children, and my mother’s death, has been featured at Inside Higher Ed. The key sentences: “how do […]