From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor

Steven M. Cahn's advice on the professorial life covers an extensive range of critical issues: how to plan, complete, and defend a dissertation; how to navigate a job interview; how to improve teaching performance; how to prepare and publish research; how to develop a professional network; and how to garner support for tenure. He deals with such hurdles as a difficult dissertation advisor, problematic colleagues, and the pressures of the tenure clock. Whether you are beginning graduate study, hoping to secure an academic position, or striving to build a professorial career, Cahn's insights are invaluable to traversing the thickets of academia.

• The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
• Tenure hacks: The 12 secrets of making tenure
• How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (2018 New Edition)
• The Academic Job Search Handbook
• What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 299 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career
• What the Best College Teachers Do
• Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.
• Everybody Is a Body
• American Slavery, American Freedom
• How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (First Edition, 2017)