October 2, 2008
Tripping Over the White Fantastic
A job candidate in sociology whose research focuses on race finds that he's not what search committees were expecting
Hearing your name spoken in a puzzled, confused, and interrogative tone the first time you meet a prospective employer is never a good thing.
I'm on the academic job market for the first time this year. To my delight, I was granted more than a dozen preliminary interviews at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in August. The speed-dating,
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