As a young-ish new assistant prof, I keep getting asked if I'm a new grad student. I don't think I should care. But maybe I should spend more time on my hair and wear power suits instead of the usual professor-casual like everyone else? Maybe wear badges on my brownie sash that indicate "I have a PhD" and "I am an Assistant Professor ( Read more... )

This post in response to thoughts I've been wrestling with for some time. The concept of ageism in academia. There are people who, for one reason or another, get PhDs in their late 30s or 40s and then go on the job market. There seems to be a commonly held fear/prejudice that one can be too old to be hired on a tenure-track, or even too old to ( Read more... )