“Does the Field Deserve Our Work?” Journal of the Early Republic 42, no. 4 (Winter 2023): 557-560. Part of a round-table entitled “The Material Conditions of Historians’ Labor.”

On Contingent

• “Contingent Magazine” OAH Insights, February 3, 2019
• “Contingent” Hellbent Podcast, February 11, 2019
• “Contingent Magazine, and supporting historians” DIY Democracy, April 16, 2019

That Piece and responses

• “Episode 89” The Nostalgia Trap, March 12, 2018
• “Episode 37: Should You Go To Grad School?” The Way of Improvement Leads Home, May 5, 2018
• “Why Everybody Loses When Someone Leaves Academe” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 15, 2018
• With Sarah Brown, “She Wrote a Farewell Letter to Colleagues. Then 80,000 People Read It.” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 15, 2018

There have been lots of great responses. Here are the ones I’m aware of.

• Colleen Flaherty, “Calling Academe’s Bluff” Inside Higher Ed, February 13, 2018
• Alex Burns, “On Early Career Researcher Grief” February 14, 2018
• Justin Weinberg, “The Double Loss When Someone Departs Academia” The Daily Nous, February 14, 2018
• Sarah Brown, “She Wrote a Farewell Letter to Colleagues. Then 80,000 People Read It.” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 15, 2018
• Bessie DiDomenica, “Practice Your Craft Creatively” February 16, 2018
• Leonard Cassuto, “The Grief of the Ex-Academic” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 25, 2018
• Bryna W. Campbell, “The Long Twinge of Grief of the Left-Behind” February 26, 2018
• Matthew Teutsch, “What do you produce as an English teacher?” February 27, 2018
• Ellie Mackin Roberts, “The Fear and Grief of the Left Behind” February 28, 2018
• Marie-Alix Thouaille, “Is pursuing an academic career a form of “cruel optimism”?” LSE Impact Blog, March 1, 2018
• Annotations by members of the University of California’s Humanists@Work group, March 5, 2018. Expand the sidebar at the right to see the annotations.
• Michael W. Harris, “On Blogs and Craft Beer: Modern Approaches to ‘Jobs’” March 17, 2018
• Ian Saxine, “They’re Not Quitting! Reclaiming a Genre” The Professor is In, March 20, 2018
• Howard Gardner, “Two Departures From The Professoriate: A World Apart” March 27, 2018
• Grant Shreve, “‘Quit Lit’ Then and Now” Inside Higher Ed, April 4, 2018
• Reddit discussions here and here
• A really substantive conversation on Metafilter.

For The Chronicle of Higher Ed

• “When Leaving Academe, Which Research Projects Do You Leave Unfinished?” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 7, 2019
• “How Ph.D.s Romanticize the ‘Regular’ Job Market” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 8, 2019
• “Before You Write a Cover Letter for a Nonfaculty Job, Try This Exercise” Chronicle of Higher Education, September 18, 2018
• “What It’s Like to Search for Jobs Outside of Academe” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8, 2018
• “You’re Not Just Leaving Academe, You’re Leaving Your Students” Chronicle of Higher Education, May 14, 2018
• “Why Your Advice for Ph.D.s Leaving Academe Might Be Making Things Worse” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2018