Tracy Perkins

Scholar, Teacher, Digital Sociologist

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Figuring out graduate school

  • Blogs and fee-based services
    • theprofessorisin.com
    • Get a Life, PhD
    • National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity  (useful for graduate students as well as faculty – check to see if your campus has an institutional membership)
  • Books
    • Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavior Sciences
    • Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis
    • Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It
    • Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
    • How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
    • The Professor is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
    • Other online resources
      • Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks – forms
      • Vitae
  • And a few of my own blog posts…
    • Academic Job Market Timeline
    • Publishing Your First Academic Article
    • How To: Applying to Give Conference Presentations
    • The Buddy System: The Best Thing I Learned in Preschool
    • Academics and the Creative Process
    • Write a Literature Review, Practice Innovation

 

 

 

Voices from the Valley: Environmental Justice in California's San Joaquin Valley

In Her Own Words: Remembering Teresa De Anda, Pesticides Activist (1959-2014)

Recent Posts

  • Links roundup: Recent book-related writing, speaking and publishing
  • Video: Discussing my book with Laura Pulido
  • New Publication on Salinas Valley Roadside Agricultural Art
  • Quoted in New York Times
  • Today’s the day!
  • Book forum at AAG annual meeting
  • The Ward Valley Nuclear Waste Dump That Never Was
  • ASA presentation: Wikipedia and Black Feminist Thought
  • New photo exhibit – HOUSING!
  • My book is coming out soon!

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Agriculture Climate change Environmental justice Gender In their own words Participation, public sociology & campus-community collaboration Photography Professionalization public sociology & campus-community collaboration Public speaking Research & writing San Joaquin Valley Sustenance Tales from the field Teaching Tech support Uncategorized University life Visual communications Voices from the Valley What I'm reading

Top Posts & Pages

  • Academic Job Market Timeline
  • "Toxic tour" of Baltimore

RSS Voices from the Valley news feed

  • California oil regulators delay health, safety rules again
  • In big first, California’s oil and gas regulatory agency denies all 21 Aera Energy fracking permit applications
  • State denies Valley fracking permits, citing health and climate concerns
  • Valley Edition – July 9, 2021- Vaccine Deserts, Safe Drinking Water, Smoke Pollution
  • Governor Newsom Holds Virtual Discussion with Leading Climate Scientists on State’s Progress Toward Carbon Neutrality
  • ETGSA approves proposed groundwater extraction fee
  • The West is caught in a vicious climate change feedback loop
  • Newsletter: How solar panels on farmland could help California fix its water and power crises
  • You can’t drink oil: 1.8 billion gallons of freshwater were used for fracking and drilling in CA since Fall 2018
  • A California Town Has No Reliable Running Water During A Heat Wave

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