Advising

Graduate Advising:

• A Guide to Being A Discussant at Workshops/Conferences. Adeline Lo and I wrote a short guide to help prepare students who might serve as a discussant at workshops or conferences.

Job Market:

Every Fall and Spring, UW-Madison Political Science hosts placement workshops for grad students currently on the market and those who will be in the near future. Here are some resources that might be useful for students in that position. This list is by no means exhaustive, and, inevitably, some give conflicting advice, but it does reflect points of view that I’ve found helpful or interesting.

General:

• So, You’ve Decided To Go On The Job Market… (Kelsey Shoub)

• Academic Job Market Advice (Chris Blattman)

• The Ultimate Job Market Guide (Amanda Murdie)

• Explaining the Job Market to Family and Friends (Steve Saideman)

• Unsolicited Job Market Advice (Steve Saideman)

• Advice for Job-Seekers in Political Science (Paul Musgrave)

On Job Talks specifically:

• Job Talks: A Talk (Arthur Spirling)

• Why You Should Probably Write Out your Job Talk (Tom Pepinsky)

• A Job Talk Talk (Tom Pepinsky)

• Tips for an Academic Job Talk (Robert Axelrod, PS: Political Science and Politics, 2013)

• A sub-genre reflecting on the merit of talks:

  • The Job Talk Debate (Phil Schrodt)

  • Death to Job Talks! (Dan Nexon on Duck of Minerva)

  • Defending the Academic Job Talk (Nathan Jensen)

  • Defending the Job Talk (Jeremy Wallace)

Negotiating:

• Negotiating Your Academic Job (Chris Blattman)