Brendan Nyhan

The unwritten rules of academia

My friend and former UM RWJ colleague Fabio Rojas, a sociology professor at Indiana University, has a new ebook based on his popular series of Grad School Rulz posts on the Orgtheory blog. If you’re in a Ph.D. program or thinking about pursuing a career in academia, this is a necessary purchase (especially for only $2). Like Fabio, I had no idea what I was getting into when I went to graduate school and found it difficult to learn the rules about how academia worked (which are almost entirely unwritten). I would put this book alongside Robert Peters’s Getting What You Came For as essential texts for the aspiring academic.