The Graduate Student Guidebook: From Orientation to Tenure Track - Paperback

by The Aejmc Board of Directors (Author), Katherine A. Foss (Editor)

Graduate school is an important and confusing time, filled with many questions about the inner-workings of academia and decisions students must make about their futures. The Graduate Student Guidebook: From Orientation to Tenure Track offers an overview of this experience, featuring expert advice on the many different steps and challenges encountered in master's and doctoral programs.

In the current academic climate, initial decisions--like choosing an advisor--critically shape future opportunities. Students need a consistent, reliable, and up-to-date resource. In this authoritative guide, faculty from various universities, positions, and backgrounds offer sage advice, responding to concerns identified by graduate student members themselves. Moving through the text, readers learn about the transition from undergrad to graduate-level expectations, special considerations for students of marginalized groups, graduate assistantships, the importance of key decisions, comprehensive exams, writing the thesis or dissertation, publishing, conferences, navigating the job search, and making a career in a tenure track position.

Author Biography

Katherine A. Foss is a professor of Media Studies in the School of Journalism & Strategic Media at Middle Tennessee University. She is the head of the AEJMC Council of Divisions. Foss previously edited Beyond Princess Culture: Gender and Children's Marketing (2019) and Demystifying the Big House: Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations (2018). She is also the author of Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (2020), Breastfeeding and Media: Exploring Conflicting Discourses That Threaten Public Health (2017), and Television and Health Responsibility in an Age of Individualism (2014).