I think this is the same guy who teaches at Boston State College in Pennsylvania and blogs at Foreign Sensations(Drezski?).
Unemployed in the Social Sciences...
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He has an open employment-seeking cover letter on his academia.edu site. He has clearly broken two of the cardinal rules of the job market: 1) don't out yourself as a whiner, and 2) don't start your cover letter with the phrase "My name is ____."
MO really failed this dude in professionalization...
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That dude who teaches at Boston University and blogs at Foreign Patterns (Drezkler?) has written some pomo crumble cake about zombies that the kids apparently love.
.I actually thought about the Drezner example driving home last night. I'm a little swamped today so I can't lay out the argument in detail but the difference is status. Drezner has a Stanford PhD and was a professor at Chicago. He has the liberty of being quirky. This guy does not have status and looks weird.
Higher education is classist. A high-ranking SLAC can get away with courses like "Comparative Political Systems among Popular Science Fiction Franchises" or "The Rational Zombie: Voting Behavior Among the Undead" on a regular basis. Slippery Rock or Carson Newman cannot.
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So how does writing an article about how good you are but unemployed affect future job chances (especially when your CV does not in anyway support your claims of success)? Seems he is just making things worse - who let him think that article was a good idea?
Clearly, his advisors are the worst.
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I don't think this guy is communicating with his advisers/mentors(or whatever person there might be to be concerned about what his doing). Given the IHE article he lives far from the school doing some adjunct gigs. When you are all alone and insecure, it is not surprising that you make some utterly imprudent moves.