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Career Development

The Career Development committee implements activities that assist SWS members in professional development.

Learn about our monthly advice column Hey Jane - a Q&A hosted by the Career Development Committee.

At the winter and summer meetings, our committee sponsors various panels and workshops on career development issues. Below are handouts and notes from these workshops (authorship is indicated on each document):

• Summer meetings 2006
  Turning Your Dissertation into a Book: A Handy Guide (PDF)*
  From First-time Authors, Julie Shayne(The Revolution Question, Rutgers University Press), Meika Loe (The Rise of Viagra, NYU Press), Jennifer Reich (Fixing Families, Routledge), Laura Carpenter (Virginity Lost, NYU Press), Patricia Richards (Pobladoras, Indigenas, and the State, Rutgers University Press)
  
  
• Winter meetings 2006 (Puerto Rico)
  Preparing for Tenure (PDF)* by Joan Spade, SUNY Brockport

• Summer meetings 2005 (Philadelphia)
  Mentoring 101 (PDF)* by Tamara Smith, SUNY Albany

• Winter meetings 2005 (Miami)
  External Funding Workshop
  • Handout from Mady Segal (PDF)*
  • Handout from Jacqueline Bergdahl (PDF)*
  Notes by Tamara Smith:
  • On Jaqueline Bergdahl's Remarks (PDF)*
  • On Lisa Brush's Remarks (PDF)*
  • Audience Questions (PDF)*

• Summer meetings 2004 (San Francisco)
  Preparing for Job Interviews (PDF)*
  The Basics of CV Writing (PDF)*
  CV Template (PDF)*
  

• Summer meetings 2003 (Atlanta)
  Navigating the Job Market (PDF)*
  Strategies for Getting Tenure (PDF)*

Unemployed sociologist? You are eligible for unemployment benefits! Read Kristen M. Wallingford's 10-13-04 posting to the SWS listserv and check out her included web links: "Ethnography of an Unemployed PhD (PDF)*."

Joya Misra
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
misra@soc.umass.edu


* These files are Adobe PDF Files. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.