Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Navigating the Academic Pipeline
Chapter 1: Cuentos and Testimonios: Professional Socialization into Academia
Alma L. Zaragoza-Petty
Chapter 2: Hanging by a Thread: International Students Reaching for the American Dream
Cristina S. Stephens and Elena Gheorghiu
Chapter 3: Gritty Tales of Tenure Track Job Seekers in Higher Education
Thomas Hochschild
Part Two: Now That You Have the Job
Chapter 4: Paperwork, Meetings, and Program Review: The Challenges of University Teaching in the 21st Century
Deborah L. Smith and Brian J. Smith
Chapter 5: Honeymooning Alone: On the Challenges of Dual-Career Long-Distance Academic Couples
Breanne Fahs
Chapter 6: Who Publishes in Leading Sociology Journals (1965-2010)?
Robert Perrucci, Mangala Subramaniam and Carolyn C. Perrucci
Part Three: Challenges in Academia
Chapter 7: The Tyranny of the Majority: A Case Study of Intellectual Exclusion in Sociology
Joseph Michalski
Chapter 8: Two Professors and Their Stories from a Tiny College
Hamon Ha-am and Malintzin
Chapter 9: Down the Rabbit Hole: Racism and Microaggressions at a Public New England University
Shanette M. Harris and Donald Cunnigen
Part Four: Survival Techniques in Academia
Chapter 10: We are all Huskies: Constructing a Collective Memory after the Tragedy at Northern Illinois University
Bobbi A. Knapp
Chapter 11: Horror Stories from the Hallowed Halls of Academia: How Six Women Lived to Tell the Tale
Claire H. Procopio, Helen Tate, Kristina Horn Sheeler, Krista Hoffmann-Longtin, Sarah Feldner, and Karrin Vasby Anderson
Chapter 12: Turning Nightmares to Victories: Handling Promotion and Tenure Horrors
Lin Huff-Corzine and Melvin Rogers
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index