Feminist Scholars on the Road to Tenure

<p>Featuring chapters by a diverse group of feminist psychologists and social scientists <em>Feminist Scholars on the Road to Tenure: The Personal Is Professional </em>provides readers with real-world insights and effective strategies for achieving tenure and ensuring the continued legacy of feminist scholarship within and beyond the academy.</p><p> </p><p>Opening chapters identify guideposts to achieving tenure as a feminist teacher and scholar the promises and perils of conducting feminist research and determining the tenure process and pacing. Readers then learn about the concept of the invisible college strategies for navigating the publishing process developing a research program at both teaching-oriented and research-intensive institutions and strategies for securing external funding. Additional chapters explore intersectional and antiracist pedagogy dealing with marginalization in the classroom value-drive service cultivating professional communities and conducting interdisciplinary scholarship and navigating joint appointments. Closing chapters address life after tenure and how advancement in the academy is a feminist project that can promote positive social change and equity.</p><p> </p><p>Featuring highly personal and practical perspectives <em>Feminist Scholars on the Road to Tenure </em>is an exemplary resource for feminist scholars especially those at early career stages.</p><p><br></p><p><u>Authors</u></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Kate Richmond </strong>is Professor of Psychology and Director of Women and Gender Studies at Muhlenberg College. She is co-author of <em>Psychology of Women & Gender </em>and her research focuses on feminist therapy multicultural psychology gender ideology masculinity and trauma.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Isis H. Settles </strong>is Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean for Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the College of Literature Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on experiences of invisibility exclusion and mistreatment among individuals from marginalized social groups.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Stephanie A. Shields </strong>is Professor Emeritx of Psychology and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University - University Park. Her<strong> </strong>research is at the intersection of human emotion gender and feminist psychology. </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Alexandra I. Zelin </strong>is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research centers around women's experiences both in and outside of the workplace.</p>