The Academic Job Search Handbook

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This fourth edition of the Academic Job Search Handbook rests on the contributions of all those who have been mentioned in the Acknowledgments of the first three editions. This edition builds on the previous work of the late Mary Morris Heiberger and adds the voice of new coauthor Jennifer S. Furlong . Thanks go to all past contributors—doctoral students, alumni, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and administrators—who provided insight and ideas, a reading of the manuscript, or actual job hunting materials. For years faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania and many local colleges and universities have generously shared their insight and experience at programs we have organized for graduate students and postdocs. It is impossible to thank all the speakers here individually, but we are well aware that but for them this book could not exist. Graduate students, postdocs, graduate alumni, and junior faculty members have discussed their own job searches with us; they have broadened our awareness of the range of what may happen and increased our ability to predict what is likely to happen. Our colleagues at Career Services at the University of Pennsylvania have been consistently encouraging and tolerant of the disruption writing a book imposes on a busy student services office. We feel fortunate that its director, Patricia Rose, has been uniformly enthusiastic about and supportive of this project since its inception in the early 1990s. Our colleagues at peer institutions, who use this book in their daily work advising Ph.D. students, graduates, and postdocs on career issues, provided ideas and direction for this edition. Our editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press, Jo Joslyn, has provided valuable guidance. We are grateful to Theresa Mawn for updating the appendix of scholarly associations and Lori Strauss for updating the bibliography . We are particularly grateful to the graduate students, alumni, and postdocs from the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions who shared their sample job-hunting materials with us. Because we promised them anonymity, we cannot thank them here by name. However, their generosity has provided what many will find to be the most useful part of this book. viii Acknowledgments Mary Morris Heiberger’s dedication to and love for excellent career advising for Ph.D.s lives on in these pages. Mary was an outstanding inspiration for all of us who have the privilege of working with the talented men and women who pursue careers in research and teaching. In working with the third edition, it was a pleasure to regularly come upon a particular turn of phrase that was most decidedly Mary’s. For twenty-seven years, she worked at University of Pennsylvania in Career Services, coordinating and providing career services to master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral students for nine of Penn’s schools. Mary loved working on this book and was very proud of the third edition, which came out in 2001, just two years before her death from cancer. She knew there would be a fourth edition because there’s always more to say about doctoral students, postdocs, junior faculty, and their careers. This book is dedicated to the memory of Mary Morris Heiberger, Ed.D., Associate Director, Career Services, University of Pennsylvania. ...