Traveling through the Boondocks: In and Out of Academic HierarchySUNY Press, 2000 M08 3 - 203 pages What is it like to be a faculty member at a university in the United States that enjoys no reputation or distinction? Traveling through the Boondocks discusses this situation not from the top down but from the bottom up, where the experience of exclusion ranges from that of departments where scholarship gets to count in hiring decisions to conferences where only individuals from elite institutions get to appear on stage. This book reinvigorates our understanding of higher education by illuminating the everyday conditions under which academics work and the hierarchical distinctions in which they are always embedded. |
Contents
A Credit to the University | 23 |
Electing a Department Differences Fictions and a Narrative | 39 |
The Politics of Institutional Affiliation | 55 |
Taking Nothing for Granted | 71 |
Filing Away Teaching Observation Reports | 89 |
Getting Hired | 107 |
Theory in the Boondocks | 135 |
Sabbaticals Travel Frames | 151 |
Notes | 173 |
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