Career Issues

Bok, Derek. Beyond the Ivory Tower: Social Responsibilities of the Modern University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Boufis, Christina, and Olsen, Victoria C., eds. On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997

Deneef, A. Leigh and Goodwin, Crauford D. The Academic's Handbook. 2nd ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

Note Part 3: "Academic Employment" (pp.113-76) and Part 6: "Publishing Research" (pp. 247-94).

Ehrmann-Herfort, Sabine, ed. Musikwissenschaft und Berufspraxis. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1996.

This volume is a revealing guide to the career opportunities for a musicologist in Germany. The career choices have some correlation to those in the American cultural, but the applications do not translate exactly.

Feibleman, Peter J. A Ph.D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1993.

While aimed at the sciences, this book is also useful for the humanities.

Goldsmith, John A., Komlos, John, and Gold, Penny Schine. The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Harkness, Helen. The Career Case: Taking Creative Control in a Chaotic Age. Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black Publishing, 1997.

Heiberger, Mary Morris, and Vick, Julia Miller. The Academic Job Search Handbook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

The procedures the authors outline apply to many fields and not necessarily limited to the academic setting.

Lucas, Christopher J. Crisis in the Academy: Rethinking Higher Education in America. New York: St. Martins Press, 1998.

Verba, Cynthia. The Ph.D. and Your Career: A Guide for Musicologists. Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1980.

Verba's publication is available online: Career Guide (PDF format).