RESOURCE MATERIALS

Compiled by the Faculty of the Department of Women’s Studies
at the University of North Carolina
September, 2004

Websites and Other Resources for the Feminist Academic in Search of a Job

JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

Women’s/gender/feminist studies specific or general site where women’s studies jobs can be found:

• The National Women's Studies Association Job Bank: http://www.nwsa.org/jobs.html
• Women in Higher Education (lists jobs in teaching and administration): http://www.wihe.com/
  
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://www.chronicle.com

For non-academic jobs:

• Non-profit career center (focuses especially on positions in social justice organizations): http://www.idealist.org/career.html
• Feminist Majority Foundation’s Career Site: http://www.feminist.org/911/jobs/joblisting.asp

Selected discipline-specific job sites:

• American Sociological Association: http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/index.html
• American Anthropological Association: http://www.aaanet.org/careers.htm
• Modern Language Association: http://www.mla.org/jil
• American Historical Association: http://www.historians.org/jobs/index.htm

JOB MARKET INFORMATION

Women’s/gender/feminist studies specific:

• Academic Job Searches in Women's Studies: A Selected Bibliography by K. Side at: http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/side.html

• University of Maryland Professor’s handy “Job Application Checklist”: http://www.otal.umd.edu/%7Esies/jobchecklist.html
• And her equally handy interview question preparation guide: http://www.otal.umd.edu/%7Esies/jobquess.html
• Sociologists for Women in Society’s discussion of interview strategies: http://newmedia.colorado.edu/~socwomen/about/interview.pdf
• Sociologists for Women in Society’s advice for CV preparation: http://newmedia.colorado.edu/~socwomen/about/CVBasics.pdf
• Trina Sego and Jeff Richards’ “Questions You Can (And Should) Ask" from Ph.D Interview Preparation Guide For Positions in Academia at: http://advertising.utexas.edu/JR/InterviewPrep.html

Other Relevant Resources:

• Links to on-line syllabi for women's studies courses on a huge variety of topics: http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/syllabi.html
• Sociologists for Women in Society has links to many types of teaching and research resources here: http://newmedia.colorado.edu/~socwomen/resources/resteachres.html
  

“Off-line” Materials:

• Jennie Kronenfeld and Marcia Lynn Whicker. 1997. Getting an Academic Job: Strategies for Success: Survival Skills for Scholars. Vol 17 Sage Publishers.
  
• Mark Zanna and John Darley. 1987. The Compleat Academic. NY: Random House.
  
• "American Sociological Association Resource Materials for Teaching: New Faculty Dicuss Academic Job Searching," 2002.