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Thomas C. Calhoun is Associate Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Jackson State University and he has published extensively in the area of deviance. He is the recipient of the Aida Tomeh Outstanding Teaching Award and J. Milton Yinger Distinguished Career Award from the North Central Sociological Association; the A. Wade Smith Outstanding Teaching Award and the James E. Blackwell Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Black Sociologists; and is past president of the Association of Black Sociologists, Mid-South Sociological Association and North Central Sociological Association.
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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
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