The Compleat Academic

This new and expanded volume of The Compleat Academic is filled with practical and valuable advice to help new academics set the best course for a lasting and vibrant career.

A new career in academia can be a challenge. While academia’s formal rules are published in faculty handbooks, its implicit rules are often difficult to discern. This volume guides readers through academia's informal rules and describes the problems beginning social scientists will face. With humor and insight, leading academics share the lessons they have learned through their own hard experience.

Individual chapters present the ins and outs of the hiring process; the advantages of a postdoctoral fellowship; expert strategies for managing a teaching load; insider and applicant advice for winning a research grant; detailed instructions for writing and publishing a journal article; and a straightforward explanation about intellectual property issues. The book also addresses the latter stages of a career. It offers thoughtful suggestions for keeping one's career dynamic. Chapters that provide specific information for minorities, women, and clinical psychologists are also included. The volume even presents options for working outside of academia.

Contributors
Preface

I. Starting a Career

1. A Guide to PhD Graduate School: How They Keep Score in the Big Leagues
   Charles G. Lord
2. After Graduate School: A Faculty Position or a Postdoctoral Fellowship?
   Kathleen B. McDermott and Todd S. Braver
3. The Hiring Process in Academia
   John M. Darley and Mark P. Zanna
4. Broadening the Job Search: Jobs Outside of Academia
   Patrick C. Kyllonen

II. Teaching and Mentoring

5. Tips for Effective Teaching
   Douglas A. Bernstein and Sandra Goss Lucas
6. Mentoring: Managing the Faculty–Graduate Student Relationship
   Mark P. Zanna and John M. Darley

III. Research and Writing

7. Setting Up Your Lab and Beginning a Program of Research
   Jeffrey M. Zacks and Henry L. Roediger III
8. Obtaining a Research Grant: The Granting Agency's View
   Jane Steinberg
9. Obtaining a Research Grant: The Applicant's View
   Robert J. Sternberg
10. Writing the Empirical Journal Article
    Daryl J. Bem
11. Intellectual Property
    James L. Hilton and Jonathan R. Alger

IV. Orientation to the Academic Environment

12. Power, Politics, and Survival in Academia
    Elizabeth D. Capaldi
13. Managing the Department Chair and Navigating the Department Power Structure
    Louis A. Penner, John F. Dovidio, and David A. Schroeder
14. Wiring the Ivory Tower: The Interface of Technology and the Academy
    Kevin M. Carlsmith

V. Diversity in Academia

15. The Dialectics of Race: Academic Perils and Promises
    James M. Jones and Eun Rhee
16. Women in Academia
    Denise C. Park and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
17. Clinical Psychologists in Academia
    Richard R. Bootzin
18. Varieties of College and University Experience
    Deborah L. Best

VI. Keeping Your Edge: Managing Your Career Over Time

19. The Academic Marathon: Controlling One's Career
    Shelley E. Taylor and Joanne Martin
20. Managing Your Career: The Long View
    Henry L. Roediger III and David A. Balota

Index
About the Editors

John McConnon Darley, PhD, received his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1960. He did his graduate work in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University and received his doctoral degree in 1964. Dr. Darley was then appointed assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at New York University (NYU), where he taught from 1964 to 1968. He later left NYU to become an associate professor of social psychology at Princeton University. Dr. Darley was made professor in 1972, and from 1980 to 1985 served as chairman of the Department of Psychology. In 1989, he was named Dorman T. Warren Professor of Psychology.