Becoming a footnote : an activist-scholar finds his voice, learns to write, and survives academia

Becoming a footnote : an activist-scholar finds his voice, learns to write, and survives academia / Sanford F. Schram.

How does a graduate student acquire the skills necessary to define a clear research agenda and write meaningful contributions to the scholarship in his or her field? Can the requirements of professional advancement in the ivory tower be reconciled with making a difference in the bare-knuckle world o...

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Main Author: Schram, Sanford
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Series:SUNY series in new political science.
Subjects:
Schram, Sanford.
Schram, Sanford
Social scientists > United States > Biography.
Political activists > United States > Biography.
College teachers > New York (State) > Biography.
Scholars > United States > Biography.
Social sciences > Study and teaching.
Social problems > Study and teaching.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.
College teachers
Political activists
Scholars
Social problems > Study and teaching
Social sciences > Study and teaching
Social scientists
New York (State)
United States
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. How I Had Four Majors in College
  • Chapter 2. Going Postal, Getting Drafted: How I Ended Up in Graduate School
  • Chapter 3. How I Learned To Read
  • Chapter 4. I Went Down to the Crossroads: Activism and Scholarship
  • Chapter 5. Standing on Shoulders: Scholarship as Networking
  • Chapter 6. Theory and Practice: Research and the Court
  • Chapter 7. Is Anybody Listening? Testifying before Congress
  • Chapter 8. Calling Out Racial Bias: Images, Words, and Numbers
  • Chapter 9. The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Enduring Identities in Dependency Discourse
  • Chapter 10. Three Heads Are Better than One: Collaboration, Mixed Methods, and Disciplining the Poor
  • Chapter 11. Moving On: Turning To Europe
  • Chapter 12. Making It Matter: Real Social Science in the Neoliberal Academy
  • Conclusion: A Postscript on Writing
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.

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