Traveling through the Boondocks, livre ebook

Wry and honest essays on the everyday conditions of professional life at a "second-rate" university, with implications for our understanding of higher education in general.

Wry and honest essays on the everyday conditions of professional life at a "second-rate" university, with implications for our understanding of higher education in general.

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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Representing Exclusion, Writing Personal Narrative, and Selling Influence
1. A Credit to the University
2. Electing a Department: Differences, Fictions, and a Narrative
3. The Politics of Institutional Affiliation
4. Taking Nothing for Granted
5. Filing Away Teacher Observation Reports
6. Getting Hired
7. Theory in the Boondocks
8. Sabbaticals, Travel, Frames
Notes
Bibliography