IUPLR/UIC Mellon Fellows Program 2023-24

Job Postings and State of the Market

• Chronicle of Higher Education

• Inside Higher Education

• Higher Ed Jobs

• Times Higher Education

• Community College Jobs

• Academic Wiki (make sure you’re looking at the current year)

• Academic Jobs Online

• MLA Job List

• H-Net

• Academic Gates (international searches)

• Versatile PhD (alt-ac)

• Chronicle Job Tracker

• National Council on Public History

• University Affairs (Canada)

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Career Preparation and Planning

• Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In

• Gregory Semenza, Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities

• The Professor Is In Podcast

• The Professor Is In Website and Blog

• You on the Market

• MLA Career Resources

• Imagine PhD (career planning)

• Versatile PhD (alt-ac career planning)

• Building an Academic Website

• Job Search Tracking Template

• #Alt-Academy

• Columbia University Center for Career Education

• Beyond Professoriate

• AHA Career Diversity for Historians

• From PhD to Life

• Beyond Academia Podcast

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General Advice

• Inside Higher Ed and Chronicle of Higher Ed Advice Columns

• Ivory Tower in the Rearview Mirror: Post-Ac Column

• Beyond Prof's Blog on Job Searching During Covid

• How to Keep Your Options Open

• Applying your PhD Knowledge

• How to Fail on the Academic Job Market

• The Professor Is In: A First-Timer on the Job Market?

• The Job Market: Picking Apart Your Application

• Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Why You Weren’t Picked

• Becoming an Assistant Professor

• How to Land a Community College Job

• Martha Beck, Finding Your Own North Star

• Susan Basall and Maggie Debelius, So, What Are You Going To Do With That? 

• Anthony Grafton and Garrett Sullivan, How to Build a Life in the Humanities: Meditations on the Work-Life Balance

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Interviewing

• Tips for a Successful Virtual Interview 

• You on the Market: Interviewing Guides

• You on the Market: Campus Visits

• The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Graduate Student

• Academic Job Interview: Tips to Prepare

• How to Use Zoom

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CVs and Cover Letters

• How to Write a CV for the Academic Job Market

• Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Academic CV

• Academic CVs: 10 Irritating Mistakes

• Why Your Job Cover Letter Sucks (and what you can do to fix it)

• Those 12 Sentences: Evaluating Cover Letter Advice

• The Teaching-Centric Letter

• How To Tailor a Job Letter (Without Flattering, Pandering, or Begging)

• Keys to the Cover Letter

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Teaching Documents

• How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging

• What is Evidence of Teaching Excellence?

• What’s Your Philosophy on Teaching, and Why does it Matter?

• Columbia’s Guide to the Teaching Statement

• The Weepy Teaching Statement: Just Say No

• The Dreaded Teaching Statement: 8 Pitfalls

• DIY Syllabus: What Goes into a Syllabus

• Research, Teaching, and Researching Teachers

• Yale Career Center’s What’s Your Teaching Philosophy?